Random International – The Rain Room

What I have failed to realize about my photographic installation is that it has always been controlled by the viewer(s). Without them, it does not function or has any purpose. There will be no photograph unless someone ventures inside. The viewer is in control. So I changed the kind of installations/contemporary art that I was…

TABULA RASA

After my second presentation of my Final Major Project, I realised I have been stuck in a rut. So I remembered seeing something in Ossian Wards: Ways of Seeing, a book I took a lot of inspiration from last term. Although I was keeping with the same theme and the same outcome for my project…

Bill Viola – Tiny Deaths

Bill Viola’s Tiny Deaths is not quite classed as an installation, but video art. It is played within a room that is close to pitch black. You are unable to see who is with you, or if you are alone. Until however, the figures appear and then disappears with a crescendo of light. This crescendo…

Yayoi Kusama – Infinity Mirrors

When I was looking at Carsten Höller’s Y images, I came across Yayoi Kusama who is known as the princess of polka dots. She has created these mirrored infinity rooms where you stand on a platform within a small 4 walled room. The walls, floor, and the roof are completely reflective, creating the infinite view that…

Carsten Höller – ‘Y’ 2003

Carsten Höller’s ‘Y’ (2003) is a prime example of an installation art that is to be experienced by the viewer to understand. This swirling vortex of bulbs lights up as you walk through. However, in a video you can see below of the installation, the viewers (in my own opinion) were not sure of what…

Martin Creed – Work number 227, The Lights Going On and Off

An empty white space is briefly, brightly lit, before being plunged into semi-darkness. Five seconds later and the lights come back on again with a barely audible click. This action is infinitely repeated. There’s nothing to see here, no matter how hard you stare. This simple conceptual piece by Scottish artist Martin Creed quickly became a standard-bearer…

Thomas Demand

At first glance, you see this as a photograph. But is it? Take a closer look. Are they leafs? Is that glass? The answer is no. This is a photograph of a model of a photograph. Created by German artist Thomas Demand, who painstakingly cut and folded thousands upon thousands of pieces of card in…

Project Feedback Sessions – March 24th.

Today I had two feedback sessions with two different artists. Both Juliet and Anna are art based practitioners and so I felt could give me some more broad advice instead of just photographic advice. Recently I’ve been stuck as to where to take my project next, how to get to the next steps in order…

Raw Materials – Bruce Nauman

My project has started to take a slight turn in that my installation now feels as though it is about the experience I create for the viewer. In order to feel what I wish the viewers to feel, they have to experience my installation in such a way it allows for that feeling to really…

Natividad by Guillermo “Habacuc” Vargas

Whilst looking into installations and the different types that exist, I came across Natividad. Now, Natividad isn’t necessarily a ‘bog standard’ installation as it wasn’t built for the specific environment that it was placed in, which most installations are, however, I chose to look into Natividad as it had a very strong authority over those…

Oil Paintings by Davide Cambria.

I have been struggling lately to think of a photographic element to incorporate into my installation. I’m not sure whether to still have photography, or which route to take in terms of genre of photography. I had an idea or a thought of using self-portraiture as the photographic element, taking a self-portrait every day until…

The Entire Processed Sequence.

So, now I have all the sounds processed to sound how I’d like them. I worked with the musician helping me and arranged them all to fit into a whole sequence. This sequence is around 50 minutes long, as of yet, I’m unsure as to whether it would be beneficial to reduce the time of the…