2. Embodiment
PROJECT DISCOURSE
“Noun: embodiment; the representation or expression of something in a tangible or visible form.”
“I came back and did Mountains and Sea and I know the landscapes were in my arms as I did it.”
“Every object is a thing but not every thing is an object”
CERAMIC STUDIES
PRECEDENTS
Participation/Object- Lydia Clark Bichos
Embodiment- Brie Ruais Area Whole
Textures- Lynda Benglis
Emotive/method- Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea.
RESEARCH
GALLERY VISIT
Location: National Art School Gallery
Exhibition: Queer and Contemporary
Artist talk: Peter Cooley
“Enriching sensation when you see art.“
Referring to the creation of works, when you “start to lose it”.
“sometimes you think you’ve overdone it” later you come back to it with a new appreciation.
Surrender to the dialogue, conversation with the clay
Thought it was too boring, got a hammer and “pushed it to the nth degree”
Likes to over light ceramics for exhibitions.
Returning to simplified surface treatments, moving away from multiple firings.
Prioritises subject as the driver of his art making.
SUBJECT CORRELATIONS
AHT276: Performance and the Trace
AHT262: Dust Breeding (1920) Man Ray, The Waterfall (1946-66) Marcel Duchamp
AHT300: Arthur Danto, After the end of art: contemporary art and the pale of history, 1997.
