Sunday 31 October 2010

Coast

I Recently attened the:
Cromer and Sheringham arts festival.

I found a lecutre by Dr Steve Dorling, director of weatherquest to be very interesting, and has pusahed forward the thoughts ive been having about weather related art.
An interesting looking project that I missed envolved Mapping the wind, luckily documented here.
Dorling spent alot of time talking about how we record weather, and how to predict the weather it is most important to know acurately what the weathe ris doing right now. I think that artiscaly how we record things such as weather is interesting, as it is a very honest representation of facts, which aims directly to comunicate.

the Work of Maori artists George Nuku and Rosanna Raymond seemed to have the most natural sense of a mutual connection to the surounding environment, with large totems connected by sting to "map" the sky, as well as a great sense of fun and celebration of simple materials in a very playful, yet powerful way.

listening to George Nuku talk about his aproach to art is a worthy thing to do.

click here to here George Nuku talk about...

I find it especily interesting that there is no word for "art" in Maori, that it is encapulsted in everything, and in the same vain how George speaks about it feeling more natural making art in an open, comunal environment. not art for arts sake, but art for people, for comunication for pleasure, for everyday.

Art School confidential


Written and drawn by Daniel Clowes to fill the last four pages of his comic Eightball in 1991, I find Art school confidential to be an excrutiatingly truthfull accout of art school. It is testiment to the notion of honesty in a piece of work being key; in the same way that pekars accounts of everyday life strike acord with the reader, so two in Art school confiential the reader is automatically put at ease and on side with the artist by his honest, if condensed, account of art school.


apologies, page two nowhere to be found on interweb.

Tuesday 26 October 2010

Robin Cooper



In his book, the time wasters diaries, Robin Cooper builds up a series of postal corespondences with various companies, organisations and individuals, generaly wasting there time with his bizzare ideas, inventions and proposals. It is an extremly funny book, yet never cruel or expoloitive, with his simply wasting people time, playing on our eagerness to comunicate andthe formalities we automatical follow when contacted by post.

here is an example

It was Coopers letter that inspired my own letter dialogues with the leader of the shut down sizewell campain, and the sation director of sizewell nuclear power station. I feel, due to its depleating use and relevance, the letter has more power today than ever before, as techniological advances have meant that letters have become reserved for generally more formal dialogues. This is something I would like to "riff on" as it where, using the letter to catch people of guard as Robin Cooper does.

Tuesday 5 October 2010

and my large collection of different species of birds

Bird In The House (Living Room Recordings) by Mick_Squalor
A little song about a some what sinister collector there.

In less musical explorations of collecting I have recently Collected and Displayed my collection of failed and incomplete collections.




In researching the Displaying of a collection at Norwich Castle, I was able to find my favourite label accompanying an item, or rather lack of:

" The Sword and Mace are being used
for A Civic Event
they will return soon "

I was also able to hear my new favourite emergency alarm when a clearly spoken, yet severely toned voice beamed over the tannoy;

" May I have your attention please,
May I have your attention please.
An emergency situation had developed within the building,
Whilst this is being investigated please remain where you are,
Further information will follow shortly. "

The displays in this museum where clear and logical, yet it is these moments of chaos that stay in your mind in a place this organised. And that is why I prefer the clearly labled collections, far less boisterous and proud than the attention seeking emergencies.