Re-Blogging...its like Re-gifting but better right>?

Here are a few people that i have found very influential in the last few days as i have been thinking seriously about what i am up to.

I had not come across these images of Sam Talyor-Woods until i found one of then on Annette Habel's blog. They are amazingly orchestrated and incredibly ambigous. They pose more questions than they answer...


These images are loaded with a power and an incredible sense of movement and risk. To quote the BalticMill website I pinched the images from Taylor-Wood's work "...focus['s] on the extremes of human emotion, ranging from desire to anger, and loneliness to boredom, she presents enigmatic situations loaded with latent but explosive energy."

Another artist i have found really interesting is Pascual Sisto. I stumbled across this video piece earlier today and i found it really interesting."No Strings Attached" - 2007.
The power that is moving the chair remains invisible to the naked eye, we suspect some sort of filmic trickery as the video progress's but even so there is an interesting power inherent in this manipulation of a chair in space. I found it really interesting as a moving piece of work compared to all of the stationary and frozen photography that i have been looking at recently. The bizzare and erratic movement of the chair makes us wonder, just as much as Darzacq's still images, about how it is being done. The viewer experiances a sense of confusion when confronted with something like this, and when we cannot see the obvious answer we are left in a state of bewilderment. I like this state. I want to create it. Now.



Sisto feeds nicely into the work of Bas Jan Ader, another artist i only just discovered. He is a Dutch/American artist who produced several works that made use of gravity and discomfort before he vanished in 1975 trying to sail the smallest boat ever across the atlantic.
His two video works Fall I and Fall II show the effect of graivty on Jan Ader himself. First tipping fowards and falling down the roof of a Los Angeles house and secondly showing him riding a bicycle flat out into an Amsterdam canal.
Here is an actual website link, while the images will take you to youtube for his videos...





There is something so simple and, as many have commented, organic about his video performances. there is also a hint of absurdity to them which makes them all that more engaging with the viewer.
All of these artists have been working with the ideas of creating something that creates unease, tension and power in the mind of the viewer and it has given me a lot to think about in relation to where my work is going...