Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
S P E A K . Y O U R . M I N D
I was invited along to a spoken word event at Westminster Uni by my new friend and fellow Platform2 volunteer, Zi. Bit sceptical about the whole spoken broken poetry thing but I was completely blown away with the whole thing. Particularly Holie McNish, who was accompanied by her partner and their baby girl both sat in the audience. Please check out her website and donate generously to download her album PUSH KICK, all based on pregnancy and motherhood. Funny, moving, harrowing and spoken with such strength. Click here > http://holliemcnish.bandcamp.com/
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
T A T E . T H A T
10 inch elephant dung shoes by INSA, and why not?
INSA was asked by Tate Modern to create a response to Christ Ofili's work which were his paintings from the nineties that depicted Christ and were made out of elephant dung. INSA tracked down the same family of elephants in India where Ofili had sourced his dung from over 15 years ago. I like the attention to detail.
Chris Ofili is currently showing at Tate Modern.
INSA's shoes entitled “Anything comes when it comes to (s)hoes…” will be on display at the Tate as part of Bring the Noise from the 14th or March.
INSA was asked by Tate Modern to create a response to Christ Ofili's work which were his paintings from the nineties that depicted Christ and were made out of elephant dung. INSA tracked down the same family of elephants in India where Ofili had sourced his dung from over 15 years ago. I like the attention to detail.
Chris Ofili is currently showing at Tate Modern.
INSA's shoes entitled “Anything comes when it comes to (s)hoes…” will be on display at the Tate as part of Bring the Noise from the 14th or March.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
T R U T H
In response to the post DARE below I'd like to draw your attention to the work of Sonja Baumel, an artist from Austria. In her own words...
"I explore the boundaries between fashion design,
art and science, to create multidisciplinary
works out of information generated from the
design field and laboratory research.
I want to create new clothes which are freed from
the information about social hierarchy and
material richness. The clothing shall tell a story
about us as human beings, about our present
perception, our fragility, our fears and pleasant
sensations."
Baumel is fascinated by the human skin and the concept that it is the layer that separates our outside from our inside. However there is a second layer made up of billions of bacteria which she calls our second skin. She puts forward the idea that being able to understand or at least accept the existanse of this second membrane we achieve a better perception and understanding of self.
I think (in)Visible Membrane is a beautiful piece of work not only in concept but in its creative process and presentation. Strangely I found it quite comforting for two reasons. Physical protection and emotional protection. The physical second membrane and the projected concept of it. Science v. fiction.
An invisible layer we are barely aware of, fighting to physically protect us. Their whole life cycle is dedicated to protecting one large living thing, our body. Weather, temperature, injury, allergies, it helps us cope and combat all of these on a daily basis
The crochet flesh pink wool is a delicate and pulchritudinous metaphor for our invisible layer which Baumel says "we could use to create new clothes which would react to our individual body temperature. The texture would get less thick on areas where we need less warmth and would build up on cold body zones and create new body related silhouettes"
There is a depth and a discernment in her work which I find facinating.
Earlier work 'hang and deform.' Baumel using tools to 'deform' the shape of clothing when it is drying. Purpose made a coat hanger to alter shape. Blocks used to create texture and form.
"I explore the boundaries between fashion design,
art and science, to create multidisciplinary
works out of information generated from the
design field and laboratory research.
I want to create new clothes which are freed from
the information about social hierarchy and
material richness. The clothing shall tell a story
about us as human beings, about our present
perception, our fragility, our fears and pleasant
sensations."
Baumel is fascinated by the human skin and the concept that it is the layer that separates our outside from our inside. However there is a second layer made up of billions of bacteria which she calls our second skin. She puts forward the idea that being able to understand or at least accept the existanse of this second membrane we achieve a better perception and understanding of self.
I think (in)Visible Membrane is a beautiful piece of work not only in concept but in its creative process and presentation. Strangely I found it quite comforting for two reasons. Physical protection and emotional protection. The physical second membrane and the projected concept of it. Science v. fiction.
An invisible layer we are barely aware of, fighting to physically protect us. Their whole life cycle is dedicated to protecting one large living thing, our body. Weather, temperature, injury, allergies, it helps us cope and combat all of these on a daily basis
The crochet flesh pink wool is a delicate and pulchritudinous metaphor for our invisible layer which Baumel says "we could use to create new clothes which would react to our individual body temperature. The texture would get less thick on areas where we need less warmth and would build up on cold body zones and create new body related silhouettes"
There is a depth and a discernment in her work which I find facinating.
Earlier work 'hang and deform.' Baumel using tools to 'deform' the shape of clothing when it is drying. Purpose made a coat hanger to alter shape. Blocks used to create texture and form.
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