Monthly Archives: February 2012

Om

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Catrìona

John Smith ‘Om’ “This four minute film explores our response to stereotypes –  aural, visual and ideological.  Smith signals these stereotypes to the viewer through a chiefly associational system, which deftly manipulates the path of our expectations. The structure is … Continue reading →

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Yvonne Rainer – Hand Movie

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Catrìona

“In 1966 Yvonne Rainer made her first film, ‘Hand Movie’, while her body was confined to a hospital bed and unable to dance. She used only her right hand, each finger itself a performer moving gracefully, a video which shows hand … Continue reading →

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Video and me

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Catrìona
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Rock Balancing

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Catrìona

“Rock balancing can be a performance art, a spectacle, or a devotion, depending upon the interpretation by its audience. Essentially, it involves placing some combination of rock or stone in arrangements which require patience and sensitivity to generate, and which appear to be … Continue reading →

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To recall or not that is the question…

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Catrìona

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/02/all-seeing-time-lapse-reveals “Microsoft Sense Cam – a wearable camera that automatically snaps a picture about every 30 seconds. The device, first developed as a “black box” recorder to provide photographic evidence after accidents, is now being used to help people with … Continue reading →

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BED

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Catrìona

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=21315&tabview=text In the early 1970s, before he went to art school, Gormley made a series of Sleeping Place sculptures which no longer exist. To make these, he draped cloth, soaked inplaster, over bodies lying huddled on the ground. This created free-standing white tents … Continue reading →

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The body culture and society – reading stuff and rambling a wee bit

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Catrìona

The body, culture and society AN INTRODUCTION (Copyright © Philip Hancock; Bill Hughes; Elizabeth Jagger; Kevin Paterson; Rachel Russell; Emmanuelle Tulle-Winton; Melissa Tyler, 2000.) “The body had become a key site of political, social, cultural and economic intervention in relation, … Continue reading →

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‘The soul is easier to know than the body’ – Gordon Schmidt

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Catrìona

Gordon Schmidt’s practice is concerned with relationships between cultural, historical and technological occurrences. Using contemporary mechanisms and methods to present and re-present cultural documents from previous eras, Schmidt’s works are ultimately his own subjective renderings of the largely second hand … Continue reading →

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Erwin Wurm – One Minute Sculptures

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Catrìona

Erwin Wurm (born 1954) is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur / Styria. He currently lives and works in Vienna and Limburg, Austria.[1] Since the late 1980s he has developed an ongoing series of “One Minute Sculptures“, in … Continue reading →

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Marina Abramović

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Catrìona

Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић; born November 30, 1946) is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art”. Abramović’s work explores … Continue reading →

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