Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Christine Webster
From the Series Le Dossier - Christine Webster
I saw her retrospective today at the Christchurch City Art Gallery - Incredible. Dark moody, infused with a sense of the macabre and a photographer that was really really interested in pushing the boundaries of decency and moral indignation. Something not often seen in photography and in my neck of the woods...Most noted and infamous for her series Black Carnival some of the other works like the series Le Dossier really got me interested.Will post more about this...have to take photos...inspired...
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
oh yea i went and heard Lee Child (the author) speak the other night. He said something reall interesting at the very beginning of his talk which is roughly paraphrased as follows:
He said that the commercial and artistic sides of his job/passion go hand in hand and you cannot get one without the other, it sounded kinda money making and callus until he followed up by saying his work, his writing does not exist and is not really real (durrr) until it is consumed by someone. Unless a book he has written is bought and read by someone else then it really only exists in his head... the consumption is part of the process, it makes his writing and the process real and complete.
So this made me think about art and in particular photography. How does the consumption part of it pan out for us as photographers? I was involved in two group shows and a solo show while in the states and then another solo show posthumously (haha) on top of several other shows over the four years i was at Art School. In all honesty i have sold fuck all of my work. Does this mean that the process has not been complete>? in some ways i feel like it might have. I agree with Lee Child in that fact that the consumption, the viewing or understanding or appreciation of an art work is part of the whole artistic process. How do you know someone is an artist if you have never seen/bought/viewed their work>? but i felt like i was painting myself into a corner a little and saying that because i haven't sold much work therefore stuff doesn't count...hmmm
So the other long winded thing I was also thinking about in terms of consumption was the Internets and how we all have this presence on the web (blogs, linkedIn, facebook blah blah) and how this effects the way we consume and view art. I spend hours trolling the web on blog sites like I heart Photograph and 72dpi yet the last time i was in a gallery...um...a couple of weeks ago maybe? shit when did i last see something in person....our online presence is fascintating. I had an old friend of mine ring me tonight who commented that she found my blog within seconds online because "...there arn't many of you online..." As she said this it felt a 50/50 split, half of me was like 'wow cool she found me online, thats pretty cool' and the other half was thinking...'fuck its so open, so public, so unregulated i have to be more careful about what i do online...' It took me back to the photography elective i undertook in Second year and Dunedin based artist Michael Morley's dire warnings about our online footprints and the possibilities for surveillance/monitoring and tracking. Not to mention copyright infringment and a scary new way of having our work disseminated (outside of our control)
ok enough writing.
He said that the commercial and artistic sides of his job/passion go hand in hand and you cannot get one without the other, it sounded kinda money making and callus until he followed up by saying his work, his writing does not exist and is not really real (durrr) until it is consumed by someone. Unless a book he has written is bought and read by someone else then it really only exists in his head... the consumption is part of the process, it makes his writing and the process real and complete.
So this made me think about art and in particular photography. How does the consumption part of it pan out for us as photographers? I was involved in two group shows and a solo show while in the states and then another solo show posthumously (haha) on top of several other shows over the four years i was at Art School. In all honesty i have sold fuck all of my work. Does this mean that the process has not been complete>? in some ways i feel like it might have. I agree with Lee Child in that fact that the consumption, the viewing or understanding or appreciation of an art work is part of the whole artistic process. How do you know someone is an artist if you have never seen/bought/viewed their work>? but i felt like i was painting myself into a corner a little and saying that because i haven't sold much work therefore stuff doesn't count...hmmm
So the other long winded thing I was also thinking about in terms of consumption was the Internets and how we all have this presence on the web (blogs, linkedIn, facebook blah blah) and how this effects the way we consume and view art. I spend hours trolling the web on blog sites like I heart Photograph and 72dpi yet the last time i was in a gallery...um...a couple of weeks ago maybe? shit when did i last see something in person....our online presence is fascintating. I had an old friend of mine ring me tonight who commented that she found my blog within seconds online because "...there arn't many of you online..." As she said this it felt a 50/50 split, half of me was like 'wow cool she found me online, thats pretty cool' and the other half was thinking...'fuck its so open, so public, so unregulated i have to be more careful about what i do online...' It took me back to the photography elective i undertook in Second year and Dunedin based artist Michael Morley's dire warnings about our online footprints and the possibilities for surveillance/monitoring and tracking. Not to mention copyright infringment and a scary new way of having our work disseminated (outside of our control)
ok enough writing.
Rants.
I want to rant and rave about something but i dont know what. I want to send things overseas. I want to exploit the postal system. i want to actually DO something. I want to be part of something bigger. and make a show and have a sale and sell stuff and proffer my work around the world.
Now i shall get off my ass and do all of this.
Now i shall get off my ass and do all of this.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
From the Archives 1.3
I want to try and post one thing up here everyday. And because im not shooting everyday, and i want to look back at work i have done and often discarded. So from the Archives it is.
keeping myself awake at night
Literally two hours in the bathroom. This is the only image that makes it off the cutting room floor.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
From the Archives 1.1
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