A6 – Independent Pre-assessment Review – Studio Practice

From start to …

Time to look back, back on my works produced, time to fine all of them, displaced in various locations (do I sense my subject matter coming through as my way of living?). Also about my failures, the ‘real’ one, my struggles, but also my highlights. Last not least, all about my own practice and my development.

Areas of concern

Transformation: Materiality as touchable matter to interact and to respond to
Crossing Boundaries: physical, digital, painting-sculptural, performing-performed
Embodiment: From video-documenting my performance painting through interacting with the video-camera as audience and blurring perception of what is digitally produced and what is physically painted (both got photographic distributed online) towards video as space for motion and narratives layered as visible visual and invisible sound.
Interaction: failing through the ‘Object-Box’ as interactive art-game requiring overcoming hurdles and invitation to engage (kids are more direct here) towards having the audience inside the experience (expanded visual-auditive space)
Disruption: my interest in disrupting nearly everything, materials, meaning, borders, edges, narratives

Main questions:

Disruption: How much disruption and unsettling sensations are still successful? How much can I ‘throw’ at the audience? See parallel project? Moving images are possibly biased through cinematic connotation and displaced narratives?
Consolidation: How to develop all these further and to consolidate into my practice and a to create a more coherent body of work? I feel that I have to reduce my key aspects even further.
Context: How do I position myself in context of medical imaging as media culture? What do I offer? Or is this just a point of departure into something different?
Digital: How to incorporate digital images, especially composites from paintings with digital layers, into my body of work?

mapping my practice – mapping my context

Are there ways in which you could develop these further?

My best works and my strengths:

i would say that those of my works made during this course are most successful when they were exploring layering and materiality expression, and when they were able to convey a sense of vulnerability and fragmentation. Through crossing boundaries as a response to media culture at large, those works would embrace ambiguity and unsettling disruption.

How I want to develop it further

I feel more convinced that my practice is about disruption and dislocation exploring vulnerability through a material transformation

My reworked assignments / parallel project:

Assignment 1: kept, although edge could be bolder or with addition of discruptive layers, e.g. line
Assignment 2: not considered in portfolio, not coherent with my practice
Assignment 3: kept, but with addition of lightbox (to be discussed)
Assignment 4: reworked because of canvas stretcher and lost material
Assignment 5: kept as quite successful
Parallel Project: merged as subsection with idea from part 5, stage 3 only conceptual, stage 5 WIP

My assessment portfolio (draft)

Parallel Project

‘Mindful Resonance Interaction (MRI)’, 2019 – audio-video (09:46 min), at: https://vimeo.com/349274655

‘Mindful Resonance Interaction (MRI)’, 2019 – audio-video (09:46 min)

What is Left Behind, 2018 (acrylic, pigment, charcoal, 50 x 70 cm)
The Puzzle of Gesture (collage, 50 x 70 cm)

‘What is Left Behind’, 2018 (acrylic, pigment, charcoal, 50 x 70 cm) and The ‘Puzzle of Gesture’., 2018 (collage, 50 x 70 cm)

A2:
=> unsure, to be discussed with my tutor / perhaps to skip as too many already

Two Side Box no1 / no2, 2018
‘Two Side Box no1 / no2’, 2018 (collage, perspex, 30 x 20 cm)

A3:
=> unsure, to be discussed with my tutor / perhaps to skip as too many already

No. 1 Breaking Through , 2019
No. 6 ‘Human‘, 2019
=> Idea: to have both installed on an lightweight thin A3 lightbox (LED, usb connector) to be pushed on with the thumb of the viewer

No. 1 ‘Breaking Through’ , 2019 and No. 6 ‘Human’, 2019 (each ambient and lightbox light) // installed on lightbox

A4:

‘Caught in the Net’, 2019 and ‘Gaze at Me no2’, 2019 (reworked)

‘The Caught Gaze’, 2019 (reworked) and ‘Vulnerable Skin Sculpture’, 2019

A5:

Be Small – Stretch your Stretch, 2019 (series; Parafilm,acrylic, rhenalon- A5 or A6 each )

‘Be small – Stretch your Stretch’, 2019 – selection

Suspended Skin no2, 2019
Suspended Skin no14, 2019

‘Suspended Skin no2’, 2019 and ‘Suspended Skin no14’, 2019

Supporting and preparatory works:

see also preparatory visual material for parallel project at: http://ocasp.stefanvisualart.com/?page_id=7923

especially

Gesture Dissociation, 2019
Gesture Dissociation, 2019 (video) at: https://vimeo.com/330486554
Ambiguous Screen Gesture #3 (video, 0:07min), at: https://vimeo.com/326322266/de1b208f34

‘Gesture Dissociation’, 2019 (collage, and video)

A1:

Folding and Unfolding #1, 2018 (video, 2:53min), at: https://vimeo.com/253597059

‘Folding-Unfolding’, 2019 (video)

A2:
=> unsure, to be discussed with my tutor

Fabric Wall Box #1 , 2018 => How to transport? To large and too fragile

‘Fabric Wall Box #1’, 2018

A3:

Disruptive narrative, 2019 (collage, photo documentation)
Composing Reflection , 2019 (digital composite- perhaps supporting) – as digital only, to be discussed with my tutor

‘Disruptive narrative’, 2019

A4:
=> unsure, to be discussed with my tutor

Card size expansion, 2019

'Card size expansion', 2019 (collage 4x6")

‘Card size expansion’, 2019 (collage 4×6″)

A5:

Be Large – Leftover, 2019
Disruptive Space – Words Cut-Up, 2019 (video, 1:08 min), at: https://vimeo.com/361917813
Installed Lightbox (usb connection) of selected Be Small -Stretch your Stretch (A5 size) – pic to come