The Idea about Eldon Booth Video Work

In my opinion, Eldon Booth is an apprentice and a video technician who did a lot of moving image works, such as experimental video shot, practice works, and the documentary video shot.

First, to review his work I like one of his film called “5 Good Reasons,” because the composition is really great and the characters were playing the important roles, and the point is their conversation and we can conscious about so many meaning in this film. There were two characters in this film, one is psychologist and another person presented the patient, both they were told about the death, disorder in the street, diseases, and some of themselves problems. In the beginning of the film until the end of the film, I saw a lot of film technical which he made in every scene, for example, the montage was the most shown on the scenes, when the patient described one topic about the death, the scene changed into another screen about the figure which showed in the hospital and there was no one in the ward, also the screen presented the black and white scene, this obviously to show the death atmosphere in the empty space.

Secondly, I like the movie which he made “Withdrawal,” this looks like the documentary movie and shows the real-life about the grandfather and grandson. The movie was separated into two screens, so we can clearly to see what is the difference between grandfather and grandson their livelihood. I was surprised that two relatives presented opposite life, the grandfather need the drugs to keep his live, but the grandson just wanted to take drugs made him high. However, two characters showed part of their life very thoroughly and vividly.

Overall, Eldon Booth presented the great technical about his experimental video work and the great subject matter, and body of work. Therefore, after watched his work I felt more understood about his wonderful interpretation of video work, also more realized what does his personality is and personal ideas.

The Photograph which Related to the Nature and Culture- Richard Orjis

After Richard Orjis presentation, I am so surprised that he did a lot of experimental photo shot and the series of work for magazine cover, the big project for business and advertisements. Also I like his technical of photo shot, and furthermore he extends and develops his working process into the high quality and professional level. Besides, his drawing skill is very well, then he brought his drawings into the photography and created the new series of compositions, such as “Memento Mori” which was made by wallpaper, artworks and reminders of mortality, however, those works were look like the collage compositions.

Furthermore, I like his some of work which related to the nature culture society. For example, in one of an exhibition that every photo shot people with the dirt faces, and some of people have wore the difference of floral loops and the work called “A place in the dirt” and “Floros.” When I saw these photographs I felt placid and peaceful, because to look through the whole composition it is like the sanctity religion which is sublime and cannot be inviolable. Also the “dirt” and “floral loops” might be some of tribe cultural symbolism that could protect themselves and could not be harm.

Moreover, I like one of his photo called “Paternal” the photo shot which related to the nature and the cultural notion, a baby was setting on her father’s neck, then Richard said the meaning behind this photograph is the power of the child. Also I thought child is the most important gift who will influence the nature rule and the culture society, such as a child birth can influence the world population. However, this rule is still circulation and did not stop.

In conclusion, Richard Orjis’s work had presented the great technical about using photoshop to change the layer of photographs, he also shows the great skill about shooting the photographs. Besides, he shows the well progress and development in his work which related to the concept of culture and nature.

The Experience and Practicing on Moving Image- Rabecca Hobbs

My first impression about Rabecca Hobbs work is the photograph which she took for experimental study, she has seek around many countries and found a lot of researches about the practice. Besides, she used some of the references to create own practicing photographs and used different range of techniques to take photo shoot. For example, I like her series of work about “To Do,” these photos presented the one shoot movement, such as open, rest, jump, and so on. Also she used different materials and media to create the funny, exciting, and humor images.

On the other hand in her work of films, she makes a lot of funny and artistic short films, also most of detail was showing the film technical, such as one of her practice the “Monkey Riding the Bike,” and the dolly shoot practice. No matter the sound effect and the visual techniques, she presented the strong moving images on each of films.

Furthermore, to look through all of her compositions she was focusing on the cinema, music, and images. She represented the series details about the working processes and very good development to showing her own project. And she was an organized person who read many reference book and done a lot of researches which related of her project, like she mentions “ pathway” is important as research.

Overall, Rabecca Hobbs is a creative moving image artist, talent photographer, and the great film director who had self- experiences and creative ideas. However, she shows brilliant body works and the strong compositions.

What is the Value of Art? And What About the Presentation, Viewing and Reception of Art?

In my opinion, to overview the video of an apprentice and the following questions, I think two teams are playing the important roles and some of people have to contact and discuss with the photographers, then the other people have to arrange an exhibition and the best place for selling a lot of different content of photographs. But the one thing is showing both their team work, and each person has to showing their a great ability of soling people’s thing.

First, before to sale the art we should think about what is the art value for the viewers, the most people are think can make the money, but I think the important thing is the meaning and the message which come from the composition, and the people’s feeling when they see the art work. Besides, the viewers are with different perceptions of the art value.

Next, I think the presentation, viewing and reception of art is more important, too, the best way is the great communication and analyzing the definition of the art work, also the receptionist need more confidence to built up the relationship with the audiences whom visit an exhibition and gallery. For example, two teams are motivated to hold an exhibition, and manage one thing just two day. However, I am so surprised that the time is so rush, but they can use the short period to finish an event.

Overall, this video has telling us the competition between two teams of sale the photos from the photographers, and this is the great video which showing the team work, the personal selling experiences, the well ability and an enthusiastic services for people.

Dealing with Ideas Working in The Public

In Dion Hitchens presentation he talk a lot of how does he present and display the compositions on the public, such as galleries, coffee shop, public area, garden, and any stores, or shops. In my opinion, dealing with ideas working in the public is not a easy thing, this might be went through some processes and identifications, so the artist can show the work in the public, and this will take a lot of time to hold an exhibition in the public.

Furthermore, Dion mentions four important self-manufacture must be notice, for example, except the public space the other is competition for proposal, commission, and building contracts. The most important thing is building contracts, because when we want to display the work in the public, this motivate should be worked for the client and some of company, and we have to deal with the budget, some public response, vandalism, the durability, and some of consequences from public associations. Besides, building contract can build up the relationship between us and the client, this is the important process that we must to identification.

Next, in most of Dion publication work he create a lot of large objects, such as one of his public work called “Manukau City Square,” he collaboration with local artist Charels Koroneho to finish this sculpture. And the other sculpture work which called “Private Commission, Dunedin,” this is one of my favorite composition that Dion has combined with different medias like he use kind of white wire to make different human figures and body shapes, also the interesting thing is he work with family names on each objects. Therefore, the “Private” has been showed in the public gallery, when I see the photograph from the slideshow, the subject matter showed the different visual effect and become more attractive.

In conclusion, Dion Hitchens shows his ability and a lot of working experiences in the public, no matter the social architect and the drawing technology he always present his work very well for public place.

How is Important for Identity Steve Lovett's Work?

In my opinion, the identity about Steve Lovett, he is a lovely person who likes to present his personal idea with his strong emotion, and the expression. To look through his works, he creates the series of printing and digital prints, and the identical details are related, such as gender, sex, homosexual, or the relationship between guys. However, he shows us the contemporary art, and the design which we can usually see in current society, and the different composition which relate to different culture background.

Moreover, he creates the different style of contemporary art, and combined with the audio equipments, for example, each feature has the sound effect, this is the sound effect by interviewing with people, and the interviewer’s pictures are in his one of his screen print work call “Speaking Parts.” And the interesting thing is this kind of display just like the “picture can talk,” and the picture is talking to the viewers. I very festinated that he uses the other method to present his work, it is like the real people looking at you and talking to you.

Furthermore, he finds many researches, such as Janet Cardiff who is an artist and a reporter, she likes to interview somebody who walk on the street, then Steve Lovett follow her example, then make the series of work, this kind of work also influence him to create the “Speaking Parts.” I never think of this media can became the great composition.

In conclusion, after viewing Steve Lovett’s work, whole the component in his work is showing the realistic of our society. Now a day, it is still the true life, and true event that we will face and usually see in this society.

Line Drawing Artist- Deborah Crowe

In my point of view, Deborah Crowe represented a lot of strong compositions such as the series of architecture works with several outlines, the whole subject matter is strong and stable, she shows a lot of crossing lings, contexture lines, intersection lines. However, the whole body of work was strong and artistic, no matter the internal, or external, she made the several compositions with different line forms, and shows difference line spaces.

To look though her surface work, she emphasized the importance of body work, and she tried to planning, drafting for the construction, and prepared so many atory collages experimentation for page works. Therefore, she had done several researches to combine with her experimentation work to make series of works.

Moreover, she had not only shows the line drawings on the surface work, but also presented the whole structure on fashion design. In 1997, she cooperated with fashion designer Kim Fraser, then to make her work can wear on the human’s body, she also found out how was so important about the light and shadow that can produce the special effect on her works. When I saw the photo of her fashion design, it is a great composition and strong effect that used the warm light to flash on her fashion work.

Furthermore, we have seen her studio works and I like the reflection and flipping composition which has included a lot of lines and structure in it, the subject matter which has complex and interlace format, it looks like repetition art and the body work is very busy.

Overall, she introduced the all of her experiences and every process and skills that she used, I have more realized and became more interested about his working skills. Otherwise, she shows a lot of lines to present her great composition, and she still making brilliant line drawing works.

The presentation of Mary Curtis

To look through Mary Curtis work, she has done so many researched such as sought around many of European object and jewelry museums, and searched for the crafts, or thing. She even prepared and searching for ideas to make her creations. Overall she is organized and done a lot of collections for the reference.

First, I am festinated about her small object design, she refer to Robert Klippel’s work “Eighty-seven small polychromed tie sculptures,” which were the tiny and little sculptures, also with the colorful layout and the fine lines, no matter the internal or external, the whole construction looks elegant and nice. Therefore, the Klippel used so many materials to build up the structure, and the interesting thing is each object will have different shapes and outlines, also each thing have particular geometric figure. So she followed his style to make lots of small objects with golden color, and used different materials to create different kind of crafts.

Another work which I like is that she transferred Frances Hansen outline work into her jewelry design. She used one of her composition which had spiral and some circle shapes, then she make use of those circling shapes into her rings decorations, she perform with different surface works and particular shapes which I never seen before. I very interested about the way she used solder, bended around the wires became spiral shapes, it shows the elegant circular cone and inlayed on the rings.

Overall, Mary Curtis presented the great compositions and with some classical style, she also made the nice forms on each object works, and the brilliant out-lines no matter the external or internal, all of her works have distinctive features and looks unique.

Stenciling artist-Frances Hansen

My first impression about Frances Hansen’s work is her stenciling work which was displayed in the library. She used cleaning products or bottles which were not making and were not sale in every supermarket, then made black and white opposite stenciling shapes and colors, it presented the negative and positive format, also painted the background with purple and soft green colors to make the warm and elegant composition. Therefore, she made series of works with same stenciling techniques, and she developed and transformed her works on many of baskets decorations, such as installing art pile up the baskets together, also made the stenciling on each basket with black or white bottle images.

However, her body of work had represented the typical home decorations, in each of works had showed she loves simple, artistic. No matter the color used and the whole concept, she created the warm and comfortable visual effect. I am festinated with Frances’s work about she used amount of objects, source materials to create series of compositions.

Furthermore, during her creation, she collecting recycling crafts, for example, the pieces of card board, boxes, the plastic bags from air line, or the objects which she had been used such as the package papers, newsprint, advertise, and so on. She combined with those pieces of crafts to create the huge construction. The component which without the complicated subject matter, she just collected and separated the pieces of things into the small plastic and the bag of sheet protector. I am curious about her idea that she remade the recycling things to become a new style of object compositions.

Overall, I very like her creations and all of her works have related with living style, and home decoration. She made tiny little thing to become the brilliant vision, and the great visual condition of her stenciling and objects.

A Printer and a Painter- Emma McLellan

In my point of view, the artist Emma McLellan, in her entire spectrum of printing and painting work which represented the different color tone of ancient woman’s paintings in her previously work. And later of her masterpiece, she used different kind of animals, creature portraits to create series of pattern works. For example, she found some references from the books such as the medieval bestiary, then mixed with the ornamental curiosity. I am so festinated about some of her work like “Reiterate” and “Interior in Velvet Blue Damask,” those series of compositions which has made with different painting techniques, also drew by different methods. In “Reiterate,” she used William Morris work to recreate the new patterns with animals and flowers, and replicated the symmetrical images, such as flipping, or reflecting the layout. However, it just like same patterns connective together, then showed the particular format, it looks elegant and the whole layout shows ancient luxurious style.

Furthermore, most of her printing work was made by paint on panel and screen print techniques, also combined with science and technology by using Adobe photoshop, to rearrange the series of reflecting patterns. First, I like her exquisite drawing skills with fine lines to show the animal’s movement, and the strip on them bodies. In “Chimera Series”, at first I thought she used the black pen to draw the outline of the images, and the images shows vivid forms, just like every animal which drew on the car board, or canvases were have vitality, very natural movement such as creeping, climbing, walking, or standing.

Overall, to look though her subject matter, no matter used different methods, or materials, the whole body is strong and fascinating shows the new range of interesting compositions with the creatures and animals we did not see before. Her conceptual idea was kind of fairy tale and the characters whom from the myth, these ideas has developed the interesting atmosphere and the strong vision attract many people’s vision.

The Lecture11

29/05/09

In my opinion, in the definition of materiality, affect, and site are influence each other. The artist did not only present their work on a piece of paper, but can explored and extend their work by using different media, technical to create and represent the greatest composition.

However, I very impressed about artist Jackson Pollock, he used different color paints such as basic oil paint red, blue, yellow, green, etc. Then sprinkled on the canvas or the paper, and to look through his compositions, it all without the subject matter and the clearly forms. Also it did not have any figures and strong lines showed in whole construction. I thought he made so many mass drawing without used the paint brush to paint on the surface, and he just waved both his arms and held the brushes with some of wet oil paint, and sprinkled the paints on the papers or canvas surface. It produced the special and powerful effects that the paints were combined together, some of the color has lost the original color, but the whole compositions looked busy, tidy, even the tense which obviously to present the artist spent a lot of time to created the strange forms without the fine lines, he just like Da Da Art style and the surrealist who influencing the 20th century of contemporary art. No matter the crazy and the mass paintings, Jackson Pollock was created the particular modern art, then used different type of paint technique to built up the strange forms.

Overall, except the Jackson Pollock, there are lots of artists makes the great masterpiece that influence the modern art history, and created the new and fresh pieces of works which attracts many people’s vision. Therefore, used different kind of media to make the festinate works.

The Lecture10

22/05/09

In today’s lecture and tutorial class, in my point of view this was my first time to focus on the topic about “Representation and Museum.” Also this is my first time to go to the Auckland Museum. I am so curious about the museum’s exhibition and the ancient objects, or the history of culture background, or anything about national geography, and so on.

In the lecture, I am very impressed about Francis Upritchard’s works, to look through her compositions, I like her “Save Yourself” and “Traveller’s Collection.” Both of her works represented the ancient of Egypt culture, the curse mummy, the bury things that belong to the dead mummy, and the strange collections. In her first work, she made a grave on the gallery’s floor and she dismantled part of floor, then mix with sand on that space, just like you stood in the under grave. And the mummy which made by mixing media was lay down on the ground like the real scene and real ancient grave was be presented in the gallery. Besides, Francis made the particular effect that made the mummy alive, he can scream and shake, it was an brilliant idea and her personal conceptual idea that create the whole framework. However, she was fancied with the Egypt ancient stuffs, no matter the old legend, or the historical context, even the ancient fashion costumes, she used her own made to build up the “real life” and “the truth” in front of the gallery.

What is more her whole projects and the objects are fascinating and realistic that changed the unreal things into the “live.”

Furthermore, in the tutorial class, we went to the museum to find out more research and idea that associated with the lecture topic, it has provided many details and subject matters. And then I was very enjoyed seeking and looking around the exhibitions in the museum. I discovered many things undiscovered, also the memories that we lost in many centuries ago, such as historical remains, ecology, archeology, the natural environment, ancient things, and the cultures in different world wide.

Overall, it was the best experience and the greatest observational time to realize that many different things we could not find, the definition we misunderstood, and the part of life we went through before.

Images from http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The Lecture9

15/05/09

About today’s lecture, we discussed about “Gender, the Body, and the Gaze. From my point of view, the definition of gender has refers to social attributes and opportunities that associated with being female and male, and the relationships between women and men also boys and girls, therefore, the relationships between women and between men. Besides, these attributes between male and female, those relationships in socially constructed are becoming an importance topical subject, generally it has becoming very common and popular socially relations that we can see in the world wide. Also, with the trend of times, gender can be changeable between those women and men relationships; although gender had another meaning that can be allowed or not allowed in contemporary sociality, but still some of people could not accept the “real” relationships between women and between men. In addition, I think “gender” means sexual identity, no matter male or female whom create the art history that influence the contemporary art, or whom try to pretend like a homosexual or heterosexuality people, I think it is the way of them personal ideas, they are using different viewpoint to look through themselves and change them outside of the figure.

Furthermore, I like the artist Grayson Perry, he is a brilliant potter that create the elegant and gorgeous pots. He change the traditional art form into another drawing lines and colors, for instance, I like one of his work called “Barbaric Splendour”(the picture which is above the first pargraph), the color and the picture which he drew is very artistic and had combined with the classic art and contemporary art. Also I like the way he used the black color to be an outline, then used the different color to paint the interior of the line area, he did not draw the fine line in those figure, but in whole conceptual idea is an outstanding creation that I have not seen before. However, he has a hobby that likes to wear the girl’s dress, he is not the “real homosexual”, he just like wearing the beautiful dress and pretend like a girl or woman. I very impressed that he wear the girl’s stuff like that and doing the girl’s attitude and doing any movement like the girl, I think it just like his performing art “pretend like somebody.”

Overall, it is a great lecture to realize how so popular and an important that gender had related not only the traditional art, but also had related to the contemporary art.

The images from http://www.artfacts.net/

Research-Lisa Reihana

Lisa Reihana: Digital Marae
A powerful photographic and new media series by leading Maori artist Lisa Reihana, in Govett-Brewster Gallery, 2007

Reihana’s work communicates complex ideas about indigenous identity and bi-cultural living and in this ongoing series she continues her investigation of the concept of the marae. In Digital marae she recreates a wharenui within a digital realm.

In a modern take on the pouwhenua or wooden carvings found lining a wharenui, Reihana’s large and dramatic photographs represent Maori ancestral figures. These images are imbued with a feeling of magic surrealism, seamlessly blending the traditional with contemporary elements. Govett-Brewster Director Rhana Devenport says, “Lisa Reihana’s Digital marae is without a doubt one of the most poetic and powerful photographic series produced in New Zealand in recent times. “This presentation of the work includes new dimensions within the series and the Govett-Brewster is honoured to be presenting these works for the first time.”

Her work is held in numerous public and private collections and she has a strong international presence, most recently exhibiting in Global feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum, and Native Portraits at Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea in Rome and delivering a lecture at the Tate Modern in London.

Research from

qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/apt/apt_2002

The Lecture8

08/05/09

In my point of view, we discussed about “Indigenous Narratives” has connected with art, such as art will talk about tribal native, ethnic, ancestral, majority and minority culture, etc. In definition of “narratives” this word is telling the story, or the other meaning that telling the protagonist and antagonist, so the whole meaning is the composition of artist work had the own background and connotation in it. That is why I like Richard Orjis and Lisa Reihana works, both them done very nice photo shot and represented the great performing art in their works.

About Richard’s composition, I like the way he used computer technical by using the Adobe Photoshop combine with his own photo shot, for example in his series of Gorse and Orchids, 2007. The whole overview and concept idea had represented the natural, native, and kind of talk about the tribal cultural decorations. I have seen his performing video before that the models grab the charcoal, then smeared over their bodies and made their whole figure looked like the “charcoal-burner” very dirty, unclean, also without the clothes. Richard took the models photo shot and used the photoshop to displayed the decorations around the body such as the wreath of flowers around the neck, or covered the face, or mouth. It was a brilliant idea and the symbolism of photograph that showed the significant of the background. Therefore, it was a greatest design which made the photograph became the different visual effects.

Furthermore, I very interested in Lisa Reihana’s works, looked through her series of her compositions, she had introduced the cultural design the way of her family background, it was strong and powerful subject matter that she represented in all the photographs. I like one of her photograph called “mahuika” the strong image that attract me a lot, the old woman setting on the highest chair, textile custom ling on the ground, and the charcoal gray sky in the background. I felt anxious when I saw the photograph, but the color used was very great and can attract people’s vision. Meanwhile, Tessa has let us watched the video “Wog Features” which was made by Lisa Reihana as well. She performed the one of actress in the video, and she used many objects like her own hand crafts which was made by pieces of fabrics, or clay, or other materials to made this feature’s film. She also used “repetition” work to make the object walking , dancing just like the real people. However, it was an artistic film work to present the other funny scene.

In conclusion, after done all the research, I realized that art is not only the frame work and the surface, but also the annotation of the art work and the meaning that what does artist want to present in he/her work.

Research- Billy Apple/ NZ USA

Billy Apple is one of a handful of New Zealanders who have had an impact on the international art scene. He has been at the forefront of two art movements, first in London (pop art) then in New York (pop and conceptual art). His work is held across the USA in public collections such as the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, California; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; and the Corning Museum of Glass, New York. He is widely represented in New Zealander’s major institutions and art collections.
Billy Apple was born Barrie Bates in Auckland in 1935. In 1959 he left New Zealand on a National Art Gallery scholarship. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1959 until 1962. In 1962 he changed his name to Billy Apple and moved to New York in 1964. In 1969 he established “Apple,” one of the first alternative spaces in New York. In the 1970s, he returned to New Zealand twice, with support from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, each time exhibiting in spaces throughout the country. He returned to New Zealand, permanently in 1990. He lives in Auckland.

research from http://www.google.com/

The Lecture7

01/05/09

About today’s lecture, Tessa talked about “the capitalism, commodification, and culture jamming.” In my point of view, I thought three of different words have similar meaning and these definitions are influences each other. For example, the artist Andy Warhol and Billy Apple were used their art work such as print making of “Cans”, and logo with signature “Billy Apple”. Both of them presented their work to be them own advertisement, also to introduce their greatest compositions in front of the audience. Therefore, it make me felt the artist both are enthusiastic to interpretation their concept of idea of their work just like the business man promote the products in the public places. They also break through some entrepreneurs and sponsors to support their work process. So, both artists will become well-known in the world wide and now they be famous and popular in the 20th century.

Overall, this commercialize idea was being use in all around the world, no matter the North America or Europe country, we can see many people using the same idea in society like design the magazine cover, poster, or new product, and so on.

Therefore, in tutorial class, we watched the film called “They Live,” and we just watched one part of the film and it showed whole concept of idea in this part. The actor has found a sunglasses with some unusual installation, when he wore the sunglasses every vision which he saw has changed to like different world, and the funny thing is every texts in this film has changed into the huge word “obey”, very strong and powerful, I felt impressed about the director just used the little object then changed the usual into unusual, it’s a fascinated part of scene that made the viewers felt more interested want to watch this film.

About Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan who was famous singer in New York, he is one of audience who has participated in this an exhibition. When he saw John's works, he was impressed about his done an amazing job jut just used marker pen with canvas.

The lecture 6 -->

03/04/09

Today’s lecture is talked about “semiotics and language.”The artist has using the particular symbols, pictures, words, or many kind of materials to represent the art work, or the warning sign to attract the people’s view. However, I like John Reynolds the most, it was one of his exhibition in Auckland Art Gallery(4 Walls, 3 Layers, 2 Marks, 1 Light) . “A twilight sense of roll call of contemporary art of performance of the last 40-50 years of the gallery,” Bob Dylan said, he was very impressed about his work showed in front of the audiences. And look through his composition, his work has reminding us the date pass, he use marker pen to write down on the wall, or the canvas, some of the word and sentence we might say, but some of words we might not be saying in front of people. Nobody can image and figure out what is the meaning that he wanted to present, and the crazy thing is that he used the same way such as “repeated art” copy his work on 7000 canvases.

In my point of view, the whole body looks quite simple and it is not an elegant art work, I thought everyone can do the same way like Reynolds did, do the line painting by using oil paint marker on the white canvas. Overall, his conceptual design and whole the frame work were quite nice, too. No matter what he present, the whole body is tidy and not complex, or mess around on his work.

*pictures are from http://www.google.com/

The second impression in Te Tuhi

27/03/09
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My second impression in Te Tuhi is the “wooden” chair which was made by
Glen Hayward. The chair was looked realistic and just like the normal chair that we usually sit in the public library, school, and so on. Also the funny thing was a sign fastened behind the object said “don’t sit on it”, if I did not see the sign I will totally sit on that “chair”, and fell comfortable enjoy sitting, because it looks like a normal chair and hard to recognize what is different between common chair and the “fake” chair. I thought it was a greatest design that people could not figure out the real and the fake. Overall, I had a great time to watch the art works in Te Tuhi.

About artist-Shigeyuki Kihara

27/03/09

About today’s skills class, Tessa talked about how to write an essay and the blog. The most important thing which she taught us was “ how to write an exhibition” and “the artist work.” Also in the tutorial class, Tessa discussed with us about what we have seen in Te Tuhi Centre , the designer and the performer artist- Shigeyuki Kihara. I thought Shigeyuki Kihara one of the best artist who designed a funny and stylistic t-shirt. Through her works, I felt that she worked very hard and she told us about the process of t-shirts designed, and the supporter who helped her to make her t-shirts became well-known. She cared about everything around her. Besides, to focus on her composition, her main idea was perfect too, because she represented her native, her culture, and her ability of creation.

In my point of view, she is a versatile artist has plenty of creations and imaginations in different ways. Especially the t-shirt which she designed, in each logo has different meaning and different symbolism. Furthermore, the subject that she chose is not difficult for anyone. However, she did very carefully in each part and used a fantastic skill to interpret her ideas. I am impressed about her t-shirt design, because every logo in each t-shirt, we can found on advertise, poster, or stuffs we can easily find in our daily life. But she changed the text to another funny style, for example, “Parking Save” to “Fun’k Save.” It’s a gorgeous design enough to attract people vision. However, “Everybody can design the t-shirt,” Kihara said. The t-shirt design become more and more popular, lots of do the same work as Kihara, but to design a nice t-shirt and become a famous designer is not easy for everyone. It must have full of energy, imagination and spend an uncountable time to generate a new design.

About Lecture4 -_-

20/03/09

Today’s lecture was talked about “Performance Art”. This topic has been related with body language, sound effect and visual impression. It also used various properties for the actions. In my opinion, I like Frank Fu very much, his works have represented the “new style in century 21th”.Such as, the funny movement and posture by using the body combined with his work “Pompidou.” An actress wore the white costume which was same as Frank Fu, and she sat on both of his legs, the movement has shown the sexual meaning between male and female and the human’s natural instincts.

Furthermore, I like “The Asian Bubble,” this work looked abnormal and strange. A man was using the kind of bubble machine ( I have never seen before) and he used tube to insert into his bottom, it looked silly and funny, and another tube had spurted the bubble out ,after that he added some techniques to modify the composition which were looked more like a Photoshop creation . It was an imaginative and creative design, that few people could invent or make it. Overall, Frank Fu has done a great job by using media work and visual art. No matter his droll expression. He has represented a main potential and talent in his art.

After all, Frank Fu still keeps doing his performing art all over the world, his masterpiece has been showed on national stage, people can watch his work in public museum, or gallery. Each display is a challenge and stimulation for him to improve his own work and recreate a new idea, new style in art .

To Te Tuhi Centre

13/03/09

This tutorial class had trip to visit the Te Tuhi Centre. The main purpose was to see an artist- Shigeyuki Kihara’s composition and listened to her lecture. Through these productions, I felt that she work very hard and she wanted to tell us the story about her native. She cares about everything around her and always keeps looking for the history about her home town.

Shigeyuki Kihara is a multimedia and performance artist who uses photography to explore theme of Pacific culture, identity, indigenous spirituality, colonialism, stereotypes, gender roles, and consumerism. Kihara was born in Samoa and she has both Japanese and Samoan decent. Now she lives in Aotearoa/ New Zealand.

At first Shigeyuki Kihara used project and vedio to introduce her background, photos and her creations. Meanwhile, she showed a proficient skill in using these modern technologic media. It was showed a plenty of productions and with her own special style. No matter it attract me very much.

Her inspiration and motivation are came from a variety of course, including 19th and early 20th century colonial photographs which were made by non-indigenous artists who contributed many erroneous perceptions about Pacific Islanders and their culture.

In the triptych, Kihara seems to be both a director and an actor in this performance. She presents a provocative, reclining pose that evokes numerous historical photographs of lounging seductive women( they call “belles”, it means beautiful woman). The series has a powerful commentary by the Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders. Also, the sexual stereotypes were penetrated by early images. Kihara confront and challenges assumptions about gender identity. She illustrate different point and extent the views for male and female.

After the speech, I watched her works in the centre. In my view, she is a versatile artist; she has plenty of creations and imaginations in different ways. I like her performance, especially the t-shirt she designed. Furthermore, the subject that she chose is not difficult for anyone. However, she did very carefully in each part and used a fantastic skill to interpret her ideas. I am impressed about her t-shirt design, every logo in each t-shirt, we can found on advertise, poster, or stuffs we can easily find in our life. But she changed the text to another funny style, for example, “Parking Save” to “Fun’k Save.” It’s a gorgeous design to attract people vision.

Today, Kihara is a great designer and great creativity and full of confidence.

The artist Tal R

Article From: Flash Art
Title: The Lord of Waste
Artist: Tal R
Author: Jan Hendrik Wentrup

It’s early autumn of last year and I’m standing in Tal R’s sitting room. It’s early morning, and bright sunlight is streaming in through the windows of th wooden house. Tal’s three-year- old son Yunus is sitting on a little chair next to me and watching a cartoon on television. A little mole is standing on his molehill in the middle of a green meadow. There are trees and colorful flowers all around him. The sun is yellow circle shining in the sky. A lorry drives up, opens its tailgate and tips a mountain of rubbish onto the meadow: colored balls, and umbrella, car tires, bottle. The little mole jumps up and down on his hill and complains at the top of his voice. Yunus watches the on-screen action, fascinated, then suddenly turns round to me and shouts out: “Papa, papa painting.”

Like his son, many critics feel they’re in a late adolescent’s untidy bedroom when confronted Tal R’s pictures. The two dimensional pictorial structure, the schematic representation of the world of things, the occasionally smeary gesture and the rich colors are sufficient justification for many viewers to feel that they are dealing with a finger-painting imitator. Here they fail to acknowledge both the sophisticated content, derived from a large number of cultural, sexual, and religious sources, and Tal R’s approach to recent art history.

The 2002 picture “Riders in the Sky” is built on a strictly linear pattern. The lower part of the picture consists of an overgrown cemetery landscape with curving pine trees and a colored gravestone without an inscription. Glowing, colorful beams of light rise up out of the middle of his last earthly resting place, spreading out into the upper part of the picture like a fan. A gang of motorcyclists rides headlong along the Highway to Heaven and out into the supernatural. These clichéd figures on the fat-tired bikes appear for the first time in a picture painted two years earlier.

In the story I told at the beginning, the mole is furious at first and then sad for a long time about the rubbish in his meadow. But a moment comes when he starts to pay attention to it. He climbs into the old car tire and rolls down the hill in it; he puts up an old umbrella and floats down from a tree; he cuts the ball in two and uses one half of it as a hat, the other half as a boat. Then he piles it all into a big heap and enjoys all the shapes and colors it contains. Tal R does just the same.

In my opinion, I like Tal’s work because his masterpiece is similar with Pablo Picasso. No matter the style, color used, he gave us the joyful emotions when he used the brightly color such as “Cusines” the painting with many spot shapes and different colors. Also, his composition can attract many people, because his work is more lively, more fascinating when after people look his work and his great achievement.

Why do you come to MSVA?

27/02/09

This is my third year studying in New Zealand. The first two years I studied at the Hillcrest High School, My majored subjects were Math,

English, besides my favorite options were Art, Design, Graphics and Computer. My main reason for choosing MIT, because I am interested

in Art, Design, create things for people and enjoy cooperate-learning with other people.

When I saw MIT Visual Arts programme, it contents various kind of subjects, which I have never approached before, such as sculpture, 3D productions, jewelry making, and so on. These projects are presented by different materials, functions, operated process. All these

facts impact me want to learn more knowledge and skills from my tutors and other people.
As far as I can see, I am predict there could be have lots of fun and some frustrations during the process, however, I just want to enjoy my study and learn to deal with my problems.