The viewers reaction or participation within or around a piece of art has always been a driving factor, that is to say i am always aware that their should be a different way of approaching it, this is mainly because i am interested in how people see art whether its inside a gallery setting or outside of one. My approach reguarding this is to try different ways that i can make work that conflicts to the 'normal' way of showing work. Playing with scale- by making the viewer bend down to get closer to the piece because its in miniature or to stand back because its a large wall piece, including them in it or removing them from it.
Art on the street, during a few of my briefs i have been placing work to be found or happened upon by people who are not actually looking to see work, i was watching a documantary in which Street artist Ben Eines said that, "if people want to see art, they go to a gallery"this stuck with me as it was once true people did but the time for that is at an end, we are constantly bombarded with culture these days and its that which i find an interesting point to explore. As people alive during a time in which information is readily available and culture seems to be a commodity and art is big business how do artists step away from that? How do i make a work of art that is outside of a culture that see's artwork as a product? If i want to make something that has a small audience that maybe connects to a few people or just to get people to see a piece that in someway shares the excitement i had making it then i need to explore new platforms for showing it. With this as an aim i plan to use my final brief to explore different ways of exploring the new wave of street art and the different ways of exhibiting work on the street to fully understand why i want to put my work outside of a traditional gallery setting, and what is it about a gallery setting that i find lacking? to do this i will produce work to be placed in both, that is on the street and within a gallery context in the hope that i can explore the differences.
Processes
I enjoy working with different materials but often i come back to the same easily accessible materials and ways of creating work that it in many respects accidental, the use of stop frame animation appeals to me bacause i like the easy nature of it, the jerkyness that often comes with a stop frame short creates a quick way in which to get a message across to a viewer which is easily accepted. By this what im trying to say is that its a playful way to show an opinion which is easily accessable no matter what the theme or the context. This is a link to my stop frame short that i used in my fmp pitch,
which was later used on the college website as a way to promote my current course the response i had from it was very positive, people who have seen it like it- i'm not sure if i'm happy because people like something i have made or because i am happy that people have simply watched it and had any kind of reaction to it? either way i plan to use this current brief to make more stop frame shorts. By exhibiting within and outside of a gallery setting i can explore how people access work. A part of my FMP is a collaboration with fellow student Becky Elliot in which we plan to explore the showing of films within different institutional settings culminating in a show that we create ourselves outside of any institution, not only will we both use this to explore the curation side of exhibiting work, it will afford us a glimpse into the different reactions that film work produces when introduced in different ways in differing settings- if the context of how a piece is shown reacts with the content of the work and how far the surroundings effect it.
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