Wednesday, 25 May 2011

The pipe is going to be attached to the centre of the acrylic. I wasn't sure where to attach the piping at first, because when it is attached to the centre the piping looks like it is hanging from an angle from the front of the piece. Although after considering it for a while, it seems that the piping needs to be in the centre, I don't know where the audience at the show are going to view the work from, if people are going to walk around the piece, the piping needs to be in the centre to look uniform.To attach the piping me and Andy will put a roll of masking tape on the inside of the piping and hot glue gun around the masking tape.
The ceiling is being used to hang to create a collage of materials that manipulate the space and accentuate the videos.
As the work has grow it has actually started to take up quite a bit of space . From the fixed projector to the plug on the back wall. It has quite a lot of dimensions, don't know wether this is good?People have mentioned that it is slightly absurd the work being stuck in the corner, but I 'like' it. The seminar space where me and Andy are working is unusual in in itself. We have quite a few projections going on and there is a large wall with no work on. The absurdity of the curation of the piece only empathises aspects of my practice.
When attaching the piping to the metal, ideally i wanted to be able to ruche the piping at the top of the pipe to excentuate its form, although the piping wouldn't stretch enough. But after taping both materials together the stretched and pulled and bandaged aesthetic seems to work well .If you was going to fix something you wouldn't ruche it to make it look good, its more realistic like this.
This is what the piping looks like 'bandaged up', 'fixed' , The white electrical tape has worked marvellously, it looks ok! It has the balance of bodged and considered that the work needs.

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

The work seems to be developing very organically, I like how the piping is hanging and the finish of the attachments of piping to acrylic and metal.I was worried it wouldn't look considered enough but I think it does, maybe , maybe its rubbish.
Where the piping has been cut it will have to be 'bandaged' up. I 'like' this though. When it is 'fixed' it needs to have no holes. The pipe needs to present itself as if the 'image', 'air' 'water' is moving through. For example a car exhaust doesn't work with a hole.
Even though the piping has been cut it only just stretches around the metal, to secure the pipe I think I am going to use white electrical tape, which will emphasise the industrial aesthetic to the work so far and the use of technology.
Considering not attaching the tubing to pipe. Doesn't work!
To attach or not attach the ventilation piping to the metal tubing? I have decided in the end that the ventilation piping needs to be attached around the metal tubing that is hanging from the celling. The piece needs continuity , a flow and needs to explicitly show the connection between both of the videos.I have cut the plastic between the metal in the tubing to stretch the plastic around the metal tubing that is hanging.
What is going to be hard about this piece, is making all of the joins between the ventilation piping and the mac and acrylic, clean / and look calculated; using the materials from around the studio such as electrical tape and masking tape.
I suppose, I have known for a while what I want my final piece to consist of but never could really envisage what t would look like, I never knew how I was going to use the materials just knew why I wanted to use them.For example I knew I wanted to use ventilation piping to 'connect' both Youtube vs Vimeo and another video either Poppy of Geoff.
I want all of the materials in the space to hang naturally, the industrialised aesthetic of the work has to be softened by the curves of the ventilation piping and cables.
When me and my friend Dan Cunnigham did the Slice Full house residency this year, we first took a few celling tiles out of the space, and it worked, it kind of animated the space for more manipulation. I am wary that I don't want to just replicate what we did, although feel the same approach would work here. There is not much space between the tiles and roof although it subverts the space and illuminates the work which is going on below. The cables from the projector hanging only compliments the rest of the instillation.
After talking about in the final crit about what the work should communicate aesthetically,It seems i want to create a calculated and considered work as anyone does, although it also needs to be humorous, silly and quite ernest.This shall be achieved by using the materials around me such as the celling tiles,and technology from the studio. I don't want to go out of my way to make the work from new materials if the materials in the studio function.
So I have claimed the corner of the seminar space, mainly due to the projector which I am thinking of using for projection of Vimeo vs Youtube. The mac in the corner is going to be used to play elastic band, old one or remake or even a video of poppy.