Final exhibition opening day!

 

John Cage: Some rules for students and teachers

For my scholarship students who are moving forward: 

RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile.

RULE TWO: General duties of a student - pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.

RULE THREE: General duties of a teacher - pull everything out of your students.

RULE FOUR: Consider everything an experiment.

RULE FIVE: be self-disciplined - this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.

RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail, there's only make.

RULE SEVEN: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.

RULE EIGHT: Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

RULE NINE: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

RULE TEN: "We're breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities." (John Cage)

HINTS: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything - it might come in handy later. 

Kiki Smith

Thinking of Justina and to all students, 

Such interesting and delicate drawings using variety of materials. 

Broadcast , 2012

Luminary, 2012
mouthblown stained glass, painted, schwarzlot, glass enamel, silver, gold leaf, leaded, brass frame (3 panels each)
202,5 cm x 81,2 cm 

Walking Pig (small), 2004
Bronze
67,3 cm x 47 cm x 5,1 cm

Everywhere (Little Pig), 2010
ink an etching on Nepalese paper, collage, pencil
50.5 cm x 74.9 cm 

Images from Barbara Gross Galerie

Art of Wearable Communication- re-post

I'm re-posting this article about wearable art from last year to share, since Lydia is making a dress with plastic plates. The form of this humorous piece is interesting because of the idea behind- the desire to communicate. 

P.S. Most of the conversations I had yesterday were about making decisions, i.e.,  choosing a material and a method among many options. Your decisions will be the form that deliver the idea the best. All in all, a good artwork should be explained in 3 levels: personal, social and formal. When you start with yourself and think of its meaning in society, to the audience, there's the formal action you need to take. 

Hey all!

I was doing research for a school project when I came across Kate Hartman and found her work very fascinating.

Hartman is interested in people and their interaction with other people and their surrounding. She basically makes these wacky devices which play with different forms of interactions.

Here's some of her work that I really like...

This is called the "talk to yourself hat".. which is pretty self-explainatory.

This one emits muttering sounds which you can listen to yourself or share with someone else.

To see more of her projects, this is the link to Hartman's Ted talk video

For our final project.. I was thinking that "interactivity" would be a nice theme to develop on. What do you think?
- Teresa

Artist- Yeondoo Jung, Hyungmin Moon

I talked with Eric today about these two artists who use the portrait photography genre in interesting ways. One project is Bewitched by Yeondoo Jung where he pictured of a person in their usual environment and then another picture of the same person in the same posture but this time he puts the person in a place where he/she wants to be and what he/she wants to be doing. You can see more pictures of this series through the link. In exhibition, these pictures are shown through slide projector one overlapped to the next. 

 Another project is the series 9 objects by Hyungmin Moon. The artist took the pictures of certain objects in a peculiar way and they almost look like advertisements. The work doesn't give the audience any explanation, but these are in fact favorite objects chosen by people around the artist.

Installation view of 9 objects for scale. 

A work by the same artist for your information. The artist erased all the brand names and texts on the products in display. Related to the conversation with Crystal today, the audience gets an immediate discomfort at first sight as he/she may not discover what is happening in this familiar but strange picture, but at a closer look, it is obvious that there are no names on these drugs which we usually look for. 

More photos on League website

Check out these great shots from last Sunday Germaine posted! 
Thank-you, Germaine! 

http://league-league.org/?p=1338

Tromp L'oeil

While discussing students' proposals and the theme of our exhibition, I get to think of tromp l'oeil a few times. It is basically to create an optical illusion. It could be street art like these below, 

Or Felice Varini's elegant site-specific painting in architectural space. Varini will be a good example for our theme about dimensions and perspectives.