2014年1月22日星期三

Tate Presentation

   We did presentation for our territories practice in Tate, its a great experience to have a presentation in theater as a group, and after some meeting and discuss we decided to use a special way to present our works and what we did and learnt in territories. 
   We started to write down some lines which is what we think at that moment related with Psychoanalytic thinking, we wrote in lines one by one, when we tried to write down we havent though a lot and only read the line before us instead of read all of them, and we found it became very interesting we we read them all together, so we decided to present with those lines.
   At the presentation day we also have a video contained our works behind us when we present, and we stood in two corner of the stage and  read the lines randomly.

These are all the lines we use for our presentation:

Curious objects resonate like a fetish of this world and another

This could be reflective of the aesthetics of anxiety

Obsessive obsessive obsessive , without an obsession.

Triggered by unpleasurable tension

Alienation to a field of sequences

Fissuring the distribution of the sensible

Once the expansion of veins start, everything starts to deteriorate and fade

Suggestions of the body, creating an alternative universe of recognisable objects

The fallacy of considering two things to be the same merely because they have attributes in common

They cant choose when to stop, they can never choose when to stop

Monkeys having sex transported to another world

The animal body crawls like my instinct

What is going to happen to me here?

Is here right now or did I think it?

It is not the ceiling that usually exists with the aim of transforming it

Time as movement within a wave

Comets drop as we fall unconsciously into bloom

Sinking into the bouquet, it brings me to my 8 year old self.

In the absence of clear boundaries, bodily traces are inscribed in the spaces that do not exist.

And it seems obvious that something should be frightening precisely because it is unknown and unfamiliar

There must be a necessity to feel labouring.

But where is the line between the pleasurable and unpleasurable

But where is the line…..

where is the line…..

The line widens.. a void of repulsion and desire..we slip in

Where is the line…..

A barrier between fragile self and shaming intrusiveness

Watch how things work then they fall apart

Alone, I am brought back to her body

It entitles me to heaped teaspoons of dignity and self awareness

Looking at something, being encouraged to occupy other ideas and thoughts

The drive to create is often fuelled by a combination of personal and existential issues

A Negative feeling arising from the experience of human freedom and responsibility

The responsibility of the visual provokes bewilderment but holds power in the first instance

Hidden bodily fluids evoke self-abasement

Despising it as nonsensical and underestimating its importance

This being a subjective space


Allows becoming its author rather than its victim

Creating an inviting place for interaction

The artists uncanny fantasy is firmly rooted in their generation

And it will permanently invalidate their process of recovery

This isn’t about getting back to how you were before

Emotions in 3D form

The unconscious space expands in memory

The motive for remembering lies in handling

Loosening of boundaries and ego

Contained in taboos in one hand and in art in the other

Perversion emerges when the object of the drive moves from the genitals to other parts of the body

Your shame confirms my existence as thought

The body universe starts turning and we feel the truth

But we must remember, lying is a biological need

The body cannot suppress the gasping breath of unconscious thought

Video we showed in our presentation





Mad Bad and Sad:Women and the Mind Doctor exhibition in Freud Museum

    In one of the territories practice sessions, we visited the Freud Museum and had a look the exhibition showing from 10 Oct-2 Feb: Mad Bad and Sad. Their are variety artists' works which relate with Psychoanalysis been showed there. We discuss their works with Freud theory there, it's a great experience to discuss art works in the museum environment and get many new knowledge about this area.http://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/75211/mad-bad-and-sad-women-and-the-mind-doctors-/

Adore; Abhor, 1994, Helen Chadwick, Fur and oil on wood. 2 panels; 110 x 100 cm and 116 x 93 cm © Estate of the Artist, courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery


Adore; Abhor, 1994, Helen Chadwick, Fur and oil on wood. 2 panels; 110 x 100 cm and 116 x 93 cm © Estate of the Artist, courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery



2014年1月5日星期日

Tate BP Art Exchange Psychoanalytic thinking Group

    We got opportunity to know about how BP Art Exchange website program works by having a talk in Tate and setting up our own group for our territories practice  with the helping from Tate staffs. Its a great way to have a look what people in different art area is doing and get contact with other art groups which we may interested in. I hope we can build up our groups nicely within load up our works related with Psychoanalysis and discuss Theory and variety related artists' works hopefully, can get contact with people who interested in our Psychoanalytic Thinking Group.




Here is the web address of 
BP Art Exchange :http://bpartexchange.tate.org.uk

And our Psychoanalytic Thinking : Grouphttp://bpartexchange.tate.org.uk/groups/profile/387

Victor Burgin Exhibition : A Sense Of Place

   

  Photo from:http://www.westminster.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2013/victor-burgin-a-sense-of-place
  As part of of our territories Gallery visiting activity, we went to see Victor Burgin's show  taking place in University of Westminster: A Sense Of Place (1 November-1 December).  After visiting the exhibition we also attended hi talk at the gallery at 6:30pm, in the talk, victor shared about his life experiment with the issue of class during her early life, and how this influenced his work.  hHe also talked about how he decided to combine texts and images together during his processes...
     'Burgin’s work is concerned with the ways real objects in actual space are mediated through memory and fantasy – the way ‘space’ becomes place. To this end he explores relationships between words and images – which he sees not as separate entities but rather as a hybrid form producing a ‘virtual’, psychological, image.
Burgin’s earlier work offered solutions to formal problems in the Minimalism he inherited from such teachers as Robert Morris and Donald Judd while a student at Yale School of Art and Architecture. The works in the exhibition at Ambika P3 were made after his rejection of the hermeticism of this legacy, and his expansion of its phenomenological concerns to include such issues as class, gender and sexuality.
The built environment – as a theatre of wishes and fears about past, present and future – is at the forefront of Burgin’s works, which move through promenades and panoramas. The image-text pieces progress along the gallery wall, or wrap around an entire space, or (in later projection pieces) exploit tracking and pan movements familiar from film. These later works answer our frenetic media environment with a contemplative conception of the hybrid virtual image  – moving in permanently closed loops, but generating perpetually open spirals of time and memory.' (David Campany and Michael Maziere)

    My favorite part of this how he use texts and images to get to idea and  memory and fantasy, in one of the  rectangle space, he spread his photos all around the four walls, and texts may not related with the actual photo they been type on, but after u go around the whole space, u will find that some texts you read before may talking about the photo u seen after.

  We also have a little discussion about an journal related with the exhibition, its an interview of Victor Burgin by Laura Cottingham.: http://www.jca-online.com/burgin.html

Essay relate with Psychoanalysis and Art


Here is two essay I found and read relate with Psychoanalysis and Art. 

An Analysis of Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Modern Art By Martin DeVita

 http://www.oswego.edu/Documents/wac/Art%20History,%20Honorable%20Mention%203.pdf  


THE ELEGANT ADAPTATION: ON CREATIVITY
IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ART

An Interview with Danielle Knafo, PhD
Spyros D. Orfanos, PhD, ABPP 
http://www.danielleknafo.com/Orfanos-Knafo.pdf

My works relate with Psychoanalysis inspired by Hans Bellmer


     I aim to study about different psychopath's view of the world, and did many experiment to represent their imagination, while i found its more interesting to transform my own mind and imagination to what psychopath sees, i read some books and interviews about psychopath and how the think of the normal world and society, found the variety ideas and views  of the world linked with their life experiments. After reading variety documents, during my art work process i found the different ideas from the psychopath has already became the background of what I'm doing, not each of them individually, but mix the together as an unconscious change of way how i look my art works and how i change in doing them.



   Inspired by Hans Bellmer's work series La Poupee, i started to use barbie dolls as main material of my art works. Dolls always associated with childhood which is attracted me. In Bellmer's photos, the deformity look of the girl mannequin been posed in the dark gloomy background, make viewers the feeling of violence and sexuality, if as many views thinking about bellmer's work, they are showing the  artists desire of sexuality, then my work is much different, which is ore about showing the reflection i got from psychopath, and recreate my childhood after the unconsciously influence.






2014年1月4日星期六

The kara Walker exhibition in Camden Arts Centre and Essay discussion related

    We went to Kara Walker's exhibition as one of the territories activity in Camden Arts Centre. Her works is filled in the whole three exhibition rooms. 
    The first room i went in is very impressive, the fall three walls are covered by the paper cuts of the silhouettes of black and white figures, the largest middle wall has been painted black and covered with white silhouettes, and oppositely, walls on two side walls were covered by black silhouette.
      by having a look the silhouettes we can easily recognize wether this figure is black people or white, the feature has been created clearly on each figure. The ridiculous and vulgar poses artists gives for all black figures gives the strong environment of race. 

          ALthough  we cant find any order for the arrangement of those figures, the whole works still very narrative.

                                      http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/walker
On the other wall is a larger scale work drew by charcoal, also in the second room. The unclearly figures drew by charcoal strongly contrasted with the clearly outlines of the paper cuts. 

                                       http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/walker
                                                  Fall Frum Grace Miss Pip's Blue Tale.
http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/walker There is a video which Kara Walker was talking about her works on the Camden Web i found is reall interesting, not only about what she was saying, also how he voice and expression changed during her talking is interesting, unconsciously, her voice got lower when she was talking about some sensitive points racial discrimination, and her voice is kind of higher when she explained the her processes and experiments.


      
      

     We also discussed the essay which relate with Kara's work-Shame,disgust and idealization in Kara Walker,s Gone: A Historical Romance of Civil War AS it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs Of One Young Negress and Her Heart(1994) by Amna Malik. - included in book shame & sexuality:Psychoanalysis & Visual Cuturel(ed) By Pajaczkowska, Claire (EDT)/Watd,Ivan(EDT)




The first meeting : Territories of Practices- Psychoanalytic Thinking

    In the first meeting for our Territories of Practices we planed what we going to do in the ext few weeks,  
everyone suggested some exhibitions to visit, and we decided either we want to go together to some of the exhibitions or we go in our own time.
List of the exhibition we suggested:
Sarah Lucas show in Whitechapel Gallery
Freud Museum
Kara Walker  show in Camden Arts Centre
Victor Burgin show in Ambika P3

   Everyone also suggested some artists and examples of their works relate with Psychoanalytic Thinking to have a look.



                                 Hannah suggested Dorothy Cross – her udder works series
Virgin Shroud. 1996

Caroline suggested Ron Mueck, Baby and Cornelia Parker, Exhaled Blanket
baby(http://eklektx.com/ron-mueck/)
Cornelia Parker, Exhaled Blanket 1996(idiculouslyinteresting.com/2011/07/24/from-the-dusty-corners-of-the-museum-part-two-cornelia-parker/)

Yuting suggested Hans Bellmer, La Poupee series
(http://www.thenewyorkoptimist.com/hansbellmer.html)
                                                              Hans Bellmer
                                                        La Poupee, 1935-49




Michaela suggested Susan Hiller, Dream Mapping

                                           Joanne suggested Louise Bourgeois, The Fragile
                                                    Louise Bourgeois. The Fragile.2007
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2013/03/01/the-making-of-louise-bourgeoiss-the-fragile/)
                                                  
                                                 Ellie suggested Jan Mancuska, Double
                                        http://janmancuska.com/en/page/show/id/144/title/film

Miju suggested Robert Gober’s work, Penny Siopis’ work, Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance, & Shirin Neshat’s photo-text portraits
                                                      Robert Gober, Untitled (Leg), 1989-90
                                               (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gober)
                                                      http://www.stevenson.info/index.html
                                          
                                          Polly suggested Bruce Nauman, Clown Torture
                                                          http://vimeo.com/20303026

   Texts suggested by everyone 
Polly suggested Freud, ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ & ‘Remembering, Repeating and Working Through.
Miju suggested Shame & Sexuality (Eds) Pajackowska and Ward 
Ellie suggested Freud, ‘The Uncanny’ etc.
Joanne suggested Hannah Segal, Dream, Phantasy, and Art
Michaela suggested Peter Fuller, Art & Psychoanalysis – it is worth that there are more recent books with this title, including one by me!
Yuting suggested a text on Hitchcock
Caroline suggested a text on hoarding called This Place is a Mess as well as Gombrich’s essay ‘Art & Psychoanalysis’
Hannah suggested The Unconcept and Hal Foster’s Return of the Real in relation to the uncanny and abjection.