Weekly roundup – a new rhythm?

It’s a time of transition for me. Mixed Media for Textiles is in the wrap up stage. I don’t want to rush choices about medium term goals. In the interim I’ve decided to experiment with a life of following different strands, going to what interests me most at any time. However I like structure and want to hold myself to account. A weekly review of where I am, what I’ve been doing, feels a good discipline. It might make for boring blog posts, but it (potentially) suits my needs – so feel free to move on 🙂

Paper yarn project.
This idea comes from Ruth Hadlow’s workshop – trying an exercise for a month (25-Feb-2016). My brief to myself:
* use a piece of paper that comes to hand during the day;
* make yarn and incorporate into coiling;
* record – photograph, paper type.

20160401 envelope from super company

20160402 envelope and ticket – contemporary philosphers discuss contemporary art

20160403 real estate flier for house in street

No idea where if anywhere this will take me. The first two days were a simple flat round, with a little shaping beginning on day 3.

Lectures, exhibitions, performances

Contemporary philosphers discuss contemporary art. AGNSW. Damien Freeman, Derek Matravers, Simon Longstaff. Lots of notes, but nothing to fit into a brief paragraph.

Biennale floor talk. AGNSW.

Performance in Dogwalk, by Mella Jaarsma. AGNSW. Part of Biennale.

Mella Jaarsma
Dogwalk (in performance)

Performance – Benoît Lachambre, part of ghost telephone, a month long chain performance at AGNSW for the Biennale. For ten days Lachambre will perform, responding to Doris Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios (mentioned in post 30-Jan-2016). Lachambre moved (inadequate word) around the space, sometimes using masking tape to form a pattern or record something known only to him. After the performance the tape was removed, as will be done each day. Fascinating to watch, and in review it recalls my wrapping of space to record shadows (31-Jul-2015).

Benoît Lachambre

Biennale exhibition at MCA and AGNSW (see 3-Apr-2016)

Exhibition – The Charged Object: soft sculpture and the aesthetics of touch at Gallery Lane Cove (1-Apr-2016)

Reading
Multiple books on the go, depending on where I am.

The Falkenstein Foundation (2012) Claire Falkenstein Los Angeles: The Falkenstein Foundation

Fer, B. (1997) On abstract art New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Plus looking rather than reading – a new acquisition, on sale at MCA bookstore but still an indulgence –
Petzinger, R. and Rosen, B. (2006) EVA HESSE: CATALOGUE RAISONNE New Haven and London: Yale University Press
This is in two volumes, one painting, one sculpture. Very exciting to leaf through, watching development over time, the explorations with particular materials…

Sketchbook
Limited. Some bits and pieces related to Mixed Media for Textiles, so I’ll do a separate post on that.

It’s taken longer than I expected to write this up. Now I have a framework, it should go more easily once I settle into a rhythm. Most weeks aren’t so active.