Experimental Studio Level 2/3

Tyler

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Diane

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Week#1 Notes:

When watching Nina Katchadourian explain how she is using book to describe someone personality is nothing less of genius. She uses the stagey of digging through the whole collection and then uses the que card to write the ones she plans on using. I really like when she used the book with a question as a title then follows up with a book to answer the previous book. This method could be used to convey ones thought in different way thus painting a portrait. One of the things that drew me to studio art and pursing it as a career was the passion to work with different hues and texture and mediums.

Ryan Park’s works speak to that by the stacking of coloured books and making a colour pallet. This shows a whole new mean while working with the same medium.

I decided to use to book from my friends’ library as I honestly don’t own many books. I found her collection very interesting. One thing that I found really interesting is that by looking at someone’s library there really is a connection and can tell you a substantial amount of what that person is about. For the first stack of books, I wanted to embody her journey as a woman and how she moves through spaces. I then break down her even further not only being a woman but a black woman.

For the second I decided to mess around with the form of the book. So, I showed the pages and then, flipped one book around that was read and I liked how the words “black” and “Canada” stood out, as most of my experience has been in Canada and many people always say when they see something crazy in the states “that’s the state, and that doesn’t happen in Canada”.

For my third stack, I display where I see think we are moving to, as opposed to where we had started. So, at the top of the stack, I used the book critique of black reasons then I put becoming human because that’s is still a battle that we are fighting today. And yes, it is crazy that we are still treated unfairly and almost feel insane asking to be treated like a human. I ended the stack with “silencing the past” because I feel like we are all started to really wake up as a human race and come together and fight this division we race and move forward as one.

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2 Responses to “Tyler”

  1. Diane Avatar
    Diane

    Hi Daniel,

    Note: If you have a new piece to show – let me know – Friday morning is your last chance to add any late work.

    Week 1:
    Katchadourian notes pretty minimal, 3 Book stack images complete – though seem to be organized around a subject mainly – rather than a real conceptual/critical intervention or idea at play, I like the one with the white side of the pages against the one title – seems more intentional.

    Week 2:
    Notes on two text works extremely minimal, not much evidence of curiosity and full engagement with material

    Week 3:
    Text banner exercise and description – no evidence here of reading the required text, or following the main instruction in the assignment to use text found in the article. Close looking and note making of the works in lecture materials will also help deepen your knowledge and give you ideas for strategies for working, and making decisions about materials, words, form, and context.

    Week 4:
    Nature videos missing
    Be sure to add more notes showing you really engaged and watched all the materials, and give descriptions of how the artworks inform your new piece.

    You have a lot of ideas of your own that you want to express, but try to follow the logic of my assignments to expand ways of communicating and to explore new ideas, and the ideas of other artists.

    Try to approach your works with more experimentation (not knowing what will happen) and adventurousness (creating tension, discomfort, and surprise.) But remember, you are part of a conversation with other artists working historically and today – so to participate you have to really listen to those ideas too.

    Thank you for your attendance and we’d all like to hear more from you in class discussions and activities.

    If you would like to talk with me about your work in progress, readings, exercises, one-on-one comments on your work, and grades – send me an email in the morning to book a 15 minute appointment during the optional in person hours: Thursdays 2:30 – 4:30
    And you can show up to a zoom meeting with Nathan anytime during these hours to ask your questions, and get tech support for using software and finishing your projects:
    Mondays and Thursdays 1-4pm

  2. Diane Avatar
    Diane

    Hi Daniel,
    I appreciate your thoughts and revelation on bread, and that you participated in the exercise and baked! Looked good too, and I hope it might be an enjoyable and nourishing new skill. Unfortunately there is a lot of work missing here – the Zoom proposal, the final Zoom video and description, detailed notes on Food Art, the food piece, and the final exercise, Pandemic cake. I understand things have been exceptionally difficult for you and for many during this time, but even with extensions and other support, your grade will reflect that there is not a lot of evidence you have been deeply engaged with the course materials and lectures, and were missing/silent most of the synchronous classes this term. And do remember not to double-enroll in two studio courses simultaneously – this makes it impossible to do well in either class, is disrespectful to your teachers who are trying to support you, and is a loss to the community of each class. I enjoyed working with you when you were able to attend, and I sincerely hope things will be easier in the coming months for you and indeed for all of us.

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