Showing posts with label Artwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artwork. Show all posts
TENSEGRITY TENSILE DISMEMBERMENT DEVICE
NOTES ON THE
TENSEGRITY TENSILE DISMEMBERMENT DEVICE
The device presented here represents a new approach to machines of cruel and unusual punishment. Currently it is only a loose concept, however the elementary mechanics of its operation have been analysed and refined to a point where they can be deemed sound for circulation.
SHUTDOWN: I'LL BE YOUR GIRL (HARDCATTS RMX)
Boot-legged video footage of Bronwyn Thompson's I'll Be Your Girl, exhibited as part of the "Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship Exhibition" at the SCA Galleries, remixed into a hardcore dance music track. Exhibited in Exit Gallery (adjacent to Thompson's original work). The exibition was shut down by the dean of SCA.
WALL DRAWINGS (PSYCHOANALYSIS MODEL)
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Wall Drawings (psychoanalysis model) (2007)
Installed in C-Space, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle.
These diagrams represent a theoretical model for the interaction of agencies involved in the creation and absorption of artworks. It appropriates the model of clinical psychoanalysis. Its accuracy is obviously debatable.
SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE @ THE SILVER SPOON
Installation of performance traces at the Silver Spoon Gallery (under the Cat and Fiddle Hotel), Balmain (21/08/07).
UNICYCLE PERFORMANCE
The piece involved me learning to ride a unicycle over a period of five working days adhering to a strict schedule allowing for a 15 minute morning and afternoon tea break and a 30 minute lunch break. I clocked in and out at 9 am and 5 pm and for each break. These times were recorded on a time sheet. At the end of each day I filled out a performance evaluation sheet where by my performance was assessed against ten “Key Performance Indicators”. The performance took place at Sydney College of the Arts. The documentation consists of forty hours (eight hours per day) of continuous video footage, physical remnants and photographs.
The piece grows conceptually from the inherent absurdity of the unicycle. As a vehicle it is useless, it constitutes only an entertainment value; a circus trick. Therefore the tortuous nature of the skill acquisition heightens the aforementioned absurdity. The imposition of the time structure of the working day begins to imply a meaninglessness to a life of full time work. The working day of the performance is tortuously repetitive. The sensory deprivation provoked extreme psychological responses such as hallucination. In the end I didn’t learn to ride the unicycle, the stress of the situation and the inability to concentrate prevented moving beyond a certain proficiency.
The piece grows conceptually from the inherent absurdity of the unicycle. As a vehicle it is useless, it constitutes only an entertainment value; a circus trick. Therefore the tortuous nature of the skill acquisition heightens the aforementioned absurdity. The imposition of the time structure of the working day begins to imply a meaninglessness to a life of full time work. The working day of the performance is tortuously repetitive. The sensory deprivation provoked extreme psychological responses such as hallucination. In the end I didn’t learn to ride the unicycle, the stress of the situation and the inability to concentrate prevented moving beyond a certain proficiency.
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