Thurday 27 October 2011

Today we had an two lectures that came to our class to talk about what there passionate about and what they do when they research into that idea and how they can developing it or extending those idea to its limit. Richard Orji’s idea was amazing why? Because I never knew that artist can use cult for a ritual in his work. Mr. Orjis is a photography and a sculpture, his artwork is about conflicting about humans and mother earth nature that deals with physical and psychological that there are not created or being controlled by humans and that his work is about rituals with this mysterious feeling while watching his video called the gravy is a non-existent shadowy group of mysterious people covered in mud or cult completing his ritual he did to summon nature. He was very passionate about his artwork how he was working with lots of different things, but everything he did he would stay in the same place but it revolve around ritual, religious, cult, human and nature. This can also relate to how I can be passionate about, because I love exploring a lot of things about my culture, my religious and how I can become an better artist. What I love about his art is how he seeks to connect contemporary things like culture with cult, human and nature, and bringing in religious ritual that all connects to what his form of art means. His passionate also relates to another lecture that came to our class today, her name is Rebecca Ann Hobbs and she came to talk about what is she working on and how we can we research, so she showed us how we can start of like having an beginning and a ending, so she talked about her work on this project she is working on till now, about sounds, and stuff that relates to sex and aids. This video that I snap shot of YouTube is the video that Rebecca show to the class. What I do understand is that this video that Rebecca showed us, is what she wants to work on and how she is researching, many things that relate to music and sex. This also can help me with my situation, I am passionate in knowing my own culture and this strategy is keep researching a lot of things that contains information about my culture or relate my artwork to other artist. This is what I want to do when I am have a degree is to know my own kind, where I came from, because I was born in N.Z and I wasn’t raise in the island and this is why I am passionate to do.

Steve Lovett

On the 13^th October we had a lecture name Steve Lovett, he came to talk to us about his development through his art practice works, where he has been exploring the formal qualities of the point of art and that the point of his Art relates back to sending people an message with Art, or the message is to be send in some kind of Art form language in my opinion. Steve has already made or printed; he printed images that are about the history of representation and the polilitics associated, his primary concerns are with the time and narrative forms and that his practice has been about history and story telling. It is how we participate in public space that surrounds us to become part of Steve practice what he calls it public discourse and historical record. His motivation for his own practice is the people that he communicates with for his practice. On this picture is an Artwork form Steve, it is called the Millennium walking. His artwork on the billboard is a transcription of series and he has been interviewing a lot of his volunteers, which had participated to his practice. Steve has engaged into his practice because his practice relates to what he had been about in my opinion history and telling story. While Steve was collaborating he spent time listening to stories and having a conversation, and in that billboard is the people that volunteered to tell there story. The reason why I choose this billboard that Steve has created is that his Artwork theory makes me understand about how he works with identity too in his practice. And how his movement through his Art practicing increases with the motivation he has of collaborating with other people that would volunteer in his practice.

Tiffany Singh

On the 14^th October we had a lecture with Tiffany Singh, an artist that is alive with her artwork, through the meaning of colours. Singh has transformed her artwork by interacting with a lot of people and has been working extensively. She has also been volunteering working in Aotearoa, India and Nepal and especially Samoa. Her practice is sculpturing and she also uses music and in her artwork she uses wax to make Buddhism and other religious stuff in her art. (My view) In her practice she uses a formula she made up for her practice, Singh is very interested at what people would do if they exchange stuff for her artwork. The colour she uses in her practice reminds me of the colour of the rainbow and that her art is also seems to feel so alive is because of the colours she uses in her practice. Singh also says ‘that the colour is what blinds everything together’ I really don’t understand but I have a feeling what she means by it. Every time I look at a colourful paper my eyes seems to can’t stop staring un-till my eyes start to blur and that I can’t see straight. But in her case she uses the seven chakras system, (my point of view) a meditation method use from monks to concentrate to adapt energy inside of them. They use nature or elements or religious stuff. This is the meaning to the colours she uses in her practice is that when she makes an sculpture of the virgin Mary and other gods she uses the colours to embrace the Gods (which means every colour has a meaning to its own purpose).

My favourite colour is Green because it’s the colour of freedom. The reason why I choose this colour is that its one of my personal life and that it would stop the discrimination around the world and stop wars like killing other people or judging others and that this colour would bring us together as one.

Fran Allison

Last week on the 6^th October we had a lecture, her name is Fran Allison and contemporary New Zealand jeweler. Her practice involves a lot of collaborate, she also specialize jewelry. Fran is interested in collecting pre-existing objects, that relates to her work. Some objects that she finds comes with an already established history and once Fran finds these objects she then likes to mess with the history/ reading in some way, and that it challenges her to reconstruct the figure found fragments that she obtain. Her most recent jeweler addresses ideas of re-formatting past and history. In her collaborate history, she work with many artists; she is also in a group called Weed (a group of New Zealand artist involves in objects and jeweler), collaborate is a group of artist with many different unique ideas, it is important if you are going to work with partners because you must participate and co-operate as one. Fran describe how collaborate works, she is interested in making work and progress and listening to other peoples ideas and giving tips to how they could develop that idea. I like how Fran uses collaborate because I can understand the aspect of it and how she is influence from many areas including other artist that associated with her. I found this inspiring myself because having an team is good, because they help you improve skills, they also develop your ideas and push it even further, I really do like Fran’s artwork because working with a group of artist, working together as one team is a BIG influence, because you can also look up to one another and be by each other sides.

Filipe Tohi and Deborah Crowe

On the 29th September, we had a lecture that came to our class, she talked to us about her practice and how it work. She also talked to us about her experiment, ideas/themes, and her research, what materials she uses, relationships and outcome/outputs. Crowe love for art is amazing she has made art unbelievable. Crowe done her research, her artwork in sculpture is something, when I first saw Crowe artwork, I believe it was beautiful, the structure of her metal/steel weaving because she also told us 'she also loved constructing weaving'. In her weaving she likes to use many random materials/media like use of light, wood, steel, metal, text, patterns, flowers and other things that relates to her practice. Crowe also loves large things like scaffolding, fabric and frame structure of a building or a bridge too, she also has this weird interest thing when she was little, she got locked into a cabin or something, and she would imagine herself in another world, where she thinks and uses her imagination. Crowe big influence was her mother, she was a very good sewer and weaver as she made and repaired their clothes when they were little.

After Deborah Crowe talk, we went to a Gallery in Mangere Town Centre called Nga Tohu o uenuku. This Artist we went to see was similar to Crowe artwork but the material they use were completely different but they were also sculpture artist. The artist name was Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi; he immigrated into New Zealand in 1978, and has been sculpturing wood, stone and steel since 1992. His artwork explores the pattern of lalava, an old Island tradition, using of joining and binding materials together. One of his artwork was a lalava/ sennit Haukafa; it is the name of Tongan tradition binding methods. The lalava is usually done with two colors, while weaving. “My work transforms the technology of the past into a modern representation of identity and experience.” Yes I really do I agree what Filipe saying, he is transforming his ideas and making/ expressing the Polynesian heritage, while he is constructing many new things that relates to what he wants to do for the community. Like I said again I really LOVE, and admire this artist artwork. I love his passion to art and how he expresses it in his own way.