Active/ Reactive assessment preparation

 Electronic Flash cards for Assessment.

Kurt Schwitters used detritus in order to find some sort of aesthetic sense of the world and I think that is why this work both excites and disturbs me.

A. So I ‘m going to start with “How this work addresses problems in previous work!.....

1/ Noticing the space

• Assessment 
• Height of room how it climbs up/ unchartered territory (never used or noticed) 

2 / My Artistic process

• permission to take time
• to take more risks 
• I'v been curating the space which has become an intrinsic part of the piec

B. So how my work relates to Contemporary issues.....

1 / Materials 

• Choice of materials as seen in BAS7 (Wire, plastic, reclaimed timber etc)
• Found, A38,random
• non traditional / discarded nature of there existence reflects the Modern world and the increasing practice of certain Artists using recycled materials.

1. Re-appropriation

• Objects 
• Residues of art in studio

3. Process/ Result 

• Space / Objects = chance led
• Impermanence 
• Never finished so un comodifiable, non commercial

1. Form

• Part sculp/ part installation/ part performance/ freestanding/wall mounted/ 
• Ability to be re assembled creating new narrative/ life/ function

1. Influences

• Chetwynd, Black, McClay, 
• Schwitters  “out of the detritus to make some sort of aesthetic sense of the world”
• Cubism/Futurists/ Constructivists 

C. There are a few ways in which my work reflects issues in the wider cultural context!....

1. My work is about Multiple perspectives

• Car Journey v Technology 
• Flitting between time zones
• Technology facilitates our ability to see simultaneously multiple perspectives.

1. Nature v Technology 

• Friction between the Satellite dish and nature.

3.The issue of the throwaway society and the attempt to address it through recycling.

1. Fragmented Self/ Lives out of reach

• Mirror, height, symbolism, entry point
• Unsettling, precariousness, perceived instability Tension

5.The “out of reach” of aspects of modern life

• often modern life is out of our control or understanding rather like this piece of work.

1. Lights/ surging electricity/ alive and always on the move/ tension

D. What has worked less well....

• Floor frame
• Palette below horizon line

E. How I want to develop the work.....

• Found objects
• different spaces
• Themes 
• Areas of Colour, paint, texture
• moveable structures metamorphosis