Friday 5th March 2021
Key Concepts - Making Art After Dematerialisation and Decentralisation
Today's session and lecture is on making physical art within our design masters module. The session was led by Roddy and he started with how we as creatives should understand what and why we make our work, who are audience are and why. Looking at how the art world is a system and how it has evolved into a network and how productions of art has changed over time. Starting with Lawrence Alloway and his 'Network: Art and the Complex Present' to Vito Acconci and then Ion Grigorescu and 'The Workshop'. All these artists worked with performance and studio spaces, using the mind and body to create artwork in their own unique styles. Using different materials and ways of working these performance artists create stories through a series of imagery, using the motion and emotion of creativity.
Hunter, R. University of Huddersfield. (2021,3,5). Making Art After Dematerialisation and DecentralisationBrightspace. https://brightspace.hud.ac.uk/d2l/le/content/134131/Home
This session led by Roddy used a lot of interesting artists, terminology and information. It has taken a lot for me to understand the art works that Roddy had shown to us during this session, but I really took an interest into the performance artists of Ion Grigorescu and Martha Rosler using imagery video to document their performance of their artworks.
Martha Rosler
Rosler, M Various [Online Images]. Martha Rosler. http://www.martharosler.net
Martha Rosler has always been a name and artist that I have heard of and know her photomontage work very well, creating meanings through collages and creating fiction from non fiction in my mind. the work that Roddy had during his presentation looking at the performance work 'Semiotics of the Kitchen' created in 1975 in black and white and starting to work with video technology. Rosler's work is very domain and different in many ways to each new project that she creates over a certain time, her artworks using photo's and collage have always been spectacular to view.
The session today looking at dematerialisation and decentralisation to honest didn't have much impact on the way I work as a photographer, the artists shown and spoken about was interesting but nothing in the lesson grabbed me and none of it inspired me in a way where I could use this in my photographic or digital work unfortunately. I always try to interact with the modules sessions and lectures presented by the tutors but I just found that I struggled to engage with this session.
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