tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189209582412344302024-03-13T19:36:37.151+13:00Observations, propositions and re-presentationsAndrea Bell curates Thea Rechner for Alterations 4 - 25 February 2011Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718920958241234430.post-5590154818178949992011-04-03T10:22:00.000+12:002011-04-03T10:22:33.490+12:00SOME LAST PLANTING VIDEOS AND A TYING UP OF LOOSE ENDS (ONE MONTH LATER)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='720' height='576' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/uTmfL2pq49Y?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><BR CLEAR="left"> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Here in Melbourne, back in the routines of work and home, I feel very distant from this project. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to return to it and conclude it properly. I started off this blog thinking about how problematic it is to designate a beginning to a process oriented project. It seems that finding the point at which it finally ends is just as hard. <a name='more'></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It’s only now that I’ve been able to sit down and put together the footage from the midnight planting experiment of the 16th. Originally I’d planned for this to be screened at the end, with the botanical tours, but time ran out. (Here is a version to watch now, as well as some more planting earlier in the day – as a final gesture.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The pips sown in coffee cups and the cuttings in water, along with the walking diagram, remained in the window of <i>Alterations</i> during March. On Wednesday, Laura informs me, these remnants from my residency were finally cleared away to make room for the next project. She also tells me that something has begun to sprout in one of the cups with the plum pips; though it seems unlikely it is a plum – probably a weed which germinated in the soil I took from the flower beds. However, I hope, with all the positive lunar effects on these plantings, that some day there will be a plum tree growing somewhere around Plimmer Steps, or beyond. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">My three weeks at Alterations were incredibly rich in experiences, though not all of these came through on the blog. I met wonderful people in this truly great city, had an inspiring dialogue with Andrea and felt reinvigorated in my practice. Many thanks to all!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718920958241234430.post-39761952572534691372011-03-03T15:54:00.006+13:002011-03-03T16:01:33.452+13:00WALKING DIAGRAM (FINAL ACT)<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9N4JvxgoN4XOCLdIKeX927yPfO3XHHwbKiwsy9GiFemkg6iAvlpvBei1w4S9fcb55jfBmhIE-DS8QrnA1dp0HaGz_pApIP6opbZS25mudfqE3cDo7vQevN8bb_Hw1sh_D6cAuYLVEctWO/s1600/walkingdiagram-ds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9N4JvxgoN4XOCLdIKeX927yPfO3XHHwbKiwsy9GiFemkg6iAvlpvBei1w4S9fcb55jfBmhIE-DS8QrnA1dp0HaGz_pApIP6opbZS25mudfqE3cDo7vQevN8bb_Hw1sh_D6cAuYLVEctWO/s640/walkingdiagram-ds.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br CLEAR="left"><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The final act I performed in the space, after washing the windows, was to draw a diagram which detailed various walks I have undertaken over the course of the three weeks. Some were recurring, like going next door for coffee, others were related to specific events, such as planting pips. I've been undecided about whether this is a satisfactory way to leave the project; however, in coming back to the space now after a short break I've come to the conclusion that it is somehow appropriate. <a name='more'></a>In a way, the project was never really occurring in the physical space of <i>Alterations</i> anyway; it was occurring in the comings and goings to and from the space, in following paths suggested by my encounters with the surrounds and by the people I've met (as well as in the virtual spaces of this blog and in the dialogue between Andrea and I - much of which has been invisible behind the public facade of the project.) I think the diagram functions simultaneously as a series of observations, propositions and as a re-presentation, thus bringing the process full circle. Initially I wanted it to be a map which could be followed, but I realise now that it has become more a personal record of observations and processes - though I hope it also acts as a proposition for any number of detours that anyone can undertake.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4900809/walkingdiagram-ds.pdf">Here is a slightly more readable pdf version to download</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some more thoughts to wrap up and some edited videos will come shortly...</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It seems trivial to be thinking of this project in light of the terrible tragedy in Christchurch, but I’ll continue anyway. </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After a few days in which not much has happened within the residency, I thought I’d return to the book I was reading at the beginning of my time here. It’s a book that <a href="http://www.studiononstop.net/">Lisa Kelly</a> gave me when we swapped cities a year or so ago. It didn’t engage me so much then, but something compelled me to pull it off the shelf when deciding what reading matter to bring with me. Titled <a href="http://asnmutualpress.wordpress.com/"><i>Fieldwork</i></a>, and put together by <a href="http://www.asnse.eca.ac.uk/index.htm">ART/SPACE/NATURE</a> (an interdisciplinary course run through the Edinburgh College of Art), it comprises a series of interviews and discussions with artists, educators, architects, archaeologists and anthropologists about their thoughts on ‘fieldwork’.</span><br />
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Viewing this project in terms of a process of ‘fieldwork’ seems more and more apt. A residency, after all, is really about the investigation of a new field - an unfamiliar site and the experiences, encounters and events which may take place within it. The idea of a field is also a way of thinking about a framework or boundary; Eelco Hooftman describes it as “a boundary around a set of operations.”<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=2019001400395386256#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span></a></span> It is a boundary not just in a physical sense, relating to a site or landscape, but also relating to a field of thought, a field of investigation, a field of vision, etc. A <i>fieldworker</i>, then, is someone operating within the boundaries of a particular field, whether it’s material or conceptual. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As artists, the fields that we work in are less defined than the field of the archaeologist, for example. One could say that artists produce their own fields. Perhaps in this case the boundaries are more flexible, stretching or contracting to encompass a particular area of interest, without the restrictions demanded by disciplines dependant upon scientifically verifiable outcomes. In fact one could argue that there is not necessarily a need for any specific outcome at all, aside from the activity itself. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The chapter that has been resonating particularly with me, “The Slowness of Fieldwork”, takes the form of an interview with anthropologist Tim Ingold. He talks about the different approaches to fieldwork that specific disciplines have. Archaeologists, anthropologists, architects and artists all have varying degrees of responsibility to the field within which they are working, depending on whether their job is to describe or to create; arguably that of the artist being the most ambiguous. However, talking from his own experience as an anthropologist, Ingold makes an observation that rings true no matter the discipline: that engaging in fieldwork “influences quite fundamentally the way you move, the way you think, the way you talk to people, the way you interact, the things you observe, the things you notice and the things you don’t notice.”<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=2019001400395386256#_ftn2" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span></a></span> Moreover, while “the fieldworker affects the field by their presence ... it tends to be that the impact of the field on the life of the fieldworker is greater than that of the fieldworker on the life in the field.”<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=2019001400395386256#_ftn3" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[3] </span></a></span></span> <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This seems to align with my experiences of being in residence here. Going somewhere unfamiliar naturally shifts one’s established mode of being. Being here with a specific project, yet still undefined goal, creates a heightened awareness of the surrounds without the limitations of looking for a particular thing. Yet, I’m not sure how much of this has translated to a public or become visible in any way. Hooftman comments that “In some ways fieldwork is an activity that remains nameless or invisible.”<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=2019001400395386256#_ftn4" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[4]</span></a></span> Perhaps this suggests that if the activity of fieldwork becomes the content of the project, it is ok for it to exist in this inconspicuous way... </span> <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In practical terms, I’m conscious of the fact that time is running out, and that we are now supposed to be considering ideas for how to re-present (re-contextualise) what has happened in the previous weeks. Taking the idea of being a fieldworker at <i>Alterations</i>, and having conducted a (quite superficial) investigation into the surrounding area, one idea is to gather the material I’ve collected into the form of a ‘field guide’. A kind of tour of the area, the observations, plants, events, etc. in the form of a diagram or map to be followed. Perhaps I’ll conduct some personal walking tours as well. To be discussed and considered: a film screening and/or some other kind of projection. Updates to come.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=2019001400395386256#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US">[1]</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Eelco Hooftman, ‘The Collective Memory of a Programme’ in A/S/N (eds.), <i>Fieldwork</i>, Edinburgh, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A/S/N Mutual Press, 2009, p. 20</span></div></div><div id="ftn"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=2019001400395386256#_ftnref" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US">[2]</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tim Ingold, ‘The Slowness of Fieldwork” </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in A/S/N (eds.), <i>Fieldwork</i>, Edinburgh, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A/S/N Mutual Press, 2009, p. 37.</span></div></div><div id="ftn"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=2019001400395386256#_ftnref" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US">[3]</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ibid.</span></span></div></div><div id="ftn"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=2019001400395386256#_ftnref" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US">[4]</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hooftman, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">p. 20</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718920958241234430.post-17012638540175210242011-02-20T13:56:00.002+13:002011-02-21T15:46:48.793+13:00LAST MINUTE FRIDAY AFTERNOON PLANTING<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Using the last window of opportunity according to the <a href="http://www.korero.maori.nz/news/matariki/factsandfigures/lunarcalendar.html">Māori lunar calendar</a>, I planted two more green plum pips on Friday afternoon. Then I collected a few cuttings and put them in the water bottles saved from the dinner party. </span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While I was in the space last night I also noticed that the window writing left a shadow on the wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earlier, when thinking about the possibilities of this lunar planting proposition, I had the dilemma of what should be planted. It felt appropriate that the chosen plant/s be something related specifically to the site of <i>Alterations</i> or to the experience of being a ‘resident’ here. Two lines of thought led to different activities. </span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First, after the suggestion of looking into the plants that were growing in the vicinity of the Book House building, I went on a number of video walks investigating in detail what was sprouting out of cracks and gaps, up walls and in between drain pipes. It was quite an adventure. (The first version to be added <a href="http://alterations-resident.blogspot.com/2011/02/botanical-tour-of-surrounds.html">here</a> shortly - while I am considering the possibility of screening another version in the gallery...)</span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here’s a preliminary sketch of the route followed; which takes in the driveway entrance to the high-rise behind Book House, the car park between them, the stairs down to Plimmer Steps, the next block down with the humming lower car park, the stairs beside this car park leading to the concrete balcony flowerbed, and of course the stretch of walkway back up to the gallery. Along which, I must add, is a large oak tree, signposted with a plaque describing its origins in John Plimmer’s garden. Apparently it was grown from some acorns given to him by former governor of New Zealand, Sir George Grey.</span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="0px" text-align="center"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had a vague thought that it might be interesting to catalogue these incidental plants in some way and perhaps get a botanist to analyse and name them, however I’m not sure whether this is achievable in the timeframe of the project. Maybe it’s something to consider afterwards as some kind of extension. </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While I originally had the intention of collecting some cuttings to grow in the gallery, I decided against this for the moment, in favour of my second line of thought; although, according to the Māori calendar, I still have tomorrow afternoon to do some more planting. </span></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since the beginning of the week I've been noticing different types of plants growing around Wellington, including a kind of garden down by the harbour, which apparently represents the type of vegetation that would have been present before European settlement; and the tenacious plants growing between rocks on the beach at Island Bay, where I've been staying since Monday.</span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="0px" text-align="center"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And I collected some moss from a walk up the hill to the <a href="http://carterobservatory.org/home.php">Carter Observatory</a> on Tuesday (I went with the intention of discovering whether the moon would pass directly over Alterations at any point, but am none the wiser now.)</span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="0px" text-align="center"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The second thought relates back to an encounter at <a href="http://enjoypublicartgallery.blogspot.com/2011/01/raewyn-martyn-enjoy-summer-residency.html">Raewyn Martyn’s artist talk at Enjoy</a>, which Laura and I attended last week. I was strongly recommended to try some green plums, which happen to be in season now, by someone we met on the stairs. (Apparently they are a specialty of New Zealand, though my brief research tells me that <a href="http://www.naturalhub.com/grow_fruit_cultivars_plum_new_zealand.htm">Greengage plums are a very old variety of plum known since the sixteenth century in France</a>. Nevertheless, I haven't come across them anywhere else in the world.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I moved houses last Friday to Liz and Chloe’s place, Laura drew me a map of how to get there, including on it the location of Moshi’s fruit and veg shop on Cuba street which is said to sell green plums. For some reason I couldn’t find this particular shop, perhaps because, as I later found out, they close at 3pm. </span></div><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At this point, the only things to be seen in the gallery space are the notes on the window, marking my attendance - or lack thereof, and, when I am in the space, my physical presence as well as the video camera which is occasionally recording.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is to be a resident to inhabit a space? Is being visibly present important? Or rather is being present, in this case, a stand in for the production of an object? Where the time spent being ‘in residence’ becomes the product? This seems to link in with the idea of an artistic product taking the form of (a process of) research, as you, Andrea, alluded to with reference to Simon Sheikh’s essay. Or in this case perhaps also the process of observation (which may in itself be a kind of research).</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a name='more'></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sheikh’s suggestion of “art as a place ’where things can happen’ rather than a thing ‘that is in the world’” seems apt for this situation, where the potential of events and encounters occurring through a presence in, and observation of, the space becomes the basis for the project. I’m also interested in Sheikh’s reference to unproductive time, as something which must be maintained alongside production to create “spaces for thinking” (if I’ve understood him correctly).</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http:///#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US">[1]</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> How this kind of intangible practice can become visible is something I’m interested in. Is it merely a matter of framing? In this case through notation and blogging? And, is it enough? </span></span><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since looking at the lunar calendar you posted, Andrea, and thinking about our discussions for possible activities that the movement of the moon might dictate, I’ve done a little more research. Yesterday I visited the City Library, and found a number of books about biodynamics, a topic I know very little of, but which seemed to tie in to our interest regarding lunar movements and their relation to planting. <a name='more'></a> </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From this small amount of reading I’ve learnt that biodynamic agriculture is an organic farming method first proposed by Rudolf Steiner through a series of lectures in 1924. It is based on the idea of “a world which is in constant movement and flow, a world of beings, never static.”<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=459779897508680163#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span></a></span> Practitioners of the biodynamic method view their farms as a holistic living organism, where every process is interconnected. While biodynamic practices have much in common with general organic farming, it seems that they are more informed by a belief in the ‘mystical’ – with relation to practices such as alchemy and astrology. </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I photocopied a chapter on <i>The Moon, Stars and Planets</i>, from a book called <i>Bio-Dynamics: New Directions for Farming & Gardening in NZ</i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=459779897508680163#_ftn2" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span></a></span></span> In it, Gita Henderson describes the effects of moon cycles, the constellations of the zodiac and specific planetary positions on the cultivation of plants. Henderson reasons that the moon affects the germination and growth of plants because it interacts with water (e.g. most visibly in its relation to tides), and therefore it affects the sap in plants.<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=459779897508680163#_ftn3" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[3]</span></a></span> She describes many complex factors relating to whether the moon is ascending or descending, or is in perigee or apogee (relating to the elliptical path of the moon around the earth – perigee being its closest position to the earth, apogee the furthest), however her basic instruction is that plants grow best when sown under the influence of a full moon. She quotes Lilli Kolisko, a researcher in this field: “‘Plants must be sown a few days <i>before</i> the moon is full; if we want them to benefit from the <i>maximum full moon effect</i>, they must be placed into the main stream of the waxing moon forces. When choosing the day of full moon itself, the process of germination comes under waning moon forces.’”<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=459779897508680163#_ftn4" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[4]</span></a></span></span> </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While I find myself somewhat sceptical about the veracity of these methods, I’m prepared to investigate them within the framework of this residency. Perhaps this then becomes a proposition: to observe the lunar cycle in its relationship to planting, where the growth of a plant might become the visible evidence of such observation. Of course this is a process which would extend long beyond the length of the residency, which may be interesting in relation to the idea of its duration – that may be engaged with on multiple levels: the measuring of time spent in the space day by day, the three part structure defining each week, the duration of the month, and then the duration into the future of whatever processes are set into motion now.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to the lunar calendar you posted the other day, Saturday the 19<sup>th</sup> will be a full moon, so this week should be the best time to sow seeds. </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Some considerations:</u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What kind of plant shall I grow?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does it have to be in direct view of the moonlight?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Due to the narrow gap of sky between the buildings on Plimmer Steps, the gallery space gets no direct sun or moonlight – how would this affect the plant?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Could this situation be remedied by strategic placement of mirrors?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or alternatively could the seeds be planted in a different location, for example in the rather overgrown flowerbed built into a balcony of the car park next door?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Could water from the tap in the gallery then somehow be used for the plant?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some possible planting spots:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="0px" text-align="center"><tbody>
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(On a side note, this reminds me of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/31/sark-first-dark-sky-island">something I read recently</a> about the isle of Sark, off the coast of England, which has been named the first ‘dark sky island’ in the world. Its population has aided the preservation of its dark sky by banning cars, street lights and floodlighting.)</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, on Thursday, I managed to construct a semi-functional structure, within the limitations of the tools and materials I had – a drill, but no saw, six pieces of pine in two different lengths, some wing nuts and bolts, a clamp and assorted kinds of tape. This is what I came up with, however the structure isn’t very stable and doesn’t move in very many directions. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
<a name='more'></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After I’d put it together, I began to think that maybe a prop wasn’t actually necessary, that perhaps it functioned as a distraction from, rather than a framing of, the process of recording and viewing through the camera. A prop is something which stops something else from falling apart. It holds something up, perhaps a physical object, perhaps a situation or an idea. Does the use of a prop suggest an instability in the situation? And another thought - does the word prop relate to the idea of proposition? Perhaps more on this next week in our ‘proposition’ phase...</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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As I walked up Plimmer steps to <i>Alterations</i> yesterday, I discovered a mysterious set of chalky markings which I followed via a round about route all the way from the road up to the gallery. There were two arrows and a series of 'H' shapes. Possibly they were left by some construction workers who were busy doing something between a few fluorescent cones at the top of the steps all day, but I had the impression that they were really a coded message to lead me on a little detour.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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This Saturday night marks the first quarter, after which the sunlit portion of the moon will continually increase until the full moon on Saturday 19 February. I wonder if this period will provide you with much light to work with?</span></p> <p></p>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13677646488084852051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718920958241234430.post-79088550814264890262011-02-09T19:52:00.029+13:002011-02-13T22:28:30.576+13:00THOUGHTS ON ARTISTIC RESEARCH<div style="text-align: justify;"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.MsoEndnoteReference { vertical-align: super; }p.MsoEndnoteText, li.MsoEndnoteText, div.MsoEndnoteText { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.EndnoteTextChar { }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style></div><p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style="">Simon Sheikh, </b><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">Objects of Study or Commodification of Knowledge? Remarks on Artistic Research', A<i>rt & Research: A Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods</i>, Vol 2. No. 2, Spring 2009, <a href="http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/v2n2/sheikh.html">http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/v2n2/sheikh.html</a></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">I came across this article by Simon Sheikh a while ago and it immediately made me think of your practice. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;">There are plenty of parallels between Sheikh's text and your work, and this is starting to come through on the blog.<br /><br />I</span><span style="font-size:85%;">n keeping with the first stage of the residency being 'observations', I've decided to paste these quotes below as raw data, as if researching towards an essay, or as a way of framing or positioning <b>Observations, propositions and re-presentations</b><i>.</i><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><i>Research has … to some extent, supersceded [sic] studio practice. Artists are increasingly researching projects, not only to make site-specific works, but also time and content specific works. Here, form follows function, and the materialization of the work is decided upon different parameters than in historical studio practice. It is clear that this interdisciplinarity stands in opposition to a traditional division of art practices into particular genres, mediums or indeed disciplines.<a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=7908855081426489026#_edn1" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="">[i]<br /></span></span></a> </i></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></div><p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">AND, </span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><i><span lang="EN-US">… if we view art production as knowledge production rather than formal production, we will have to develop and define a different set of properties and parameters for discussion, production and evaluation. And when we focus on art as a place ’where things can happen’ rather than a thing ‘that is in the world’ we will see how an engagement between art production and critical theory becomes necessary and that education itself is a multifaceted inter-disciplinary field that moves in many spaces as opposed to staying within one mode of production, or form…<a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=7908855081426489026#_edn2" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="">[ii]</span></span></a></span></i></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></div><p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:65%;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></div><div face="arial" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><hr style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; height: 2px;" size="1" width="33%"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:courier new;" id="edn"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=7908855081426489026#_ednref" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="">[i]</span></span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:78%;"> ibid. p.5</span></p></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></div><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" id="edn"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1718920958241234430&postID=7908855081426489026#_ednref" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="">[ii]</span></span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:78%;"> ibid p.6</span></p></div></div><style>@font-face { font-family: "arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Times"; }@font-face { font-family: "arial"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial"; }span.MsoEndnoteReference { vertical-align: super; }p.MsoEndnoteText, li.MsoEndnoteText, div.MsoEndnoteText { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial"; }span.EndnoteTextChar { }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <style>@font-face { font-family: "arial"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13677646488084852051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718920958241234430.post-86363102909538316072011-02-09T12:19:00.003+13:002011-02-10T13:06:24.610+13:00HANDS AND FEET TOUCHING THE CITY<div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking between <i>Alterations</i> and hardware store yesterday, the long way.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718920958241234430.post-53469375302267477702011-02-07T23:08:00.003+13:002011-02-10T11:19:41.398+13:00SLOW BEGINNINGS<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><style>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Over dinner, on the first night I arrived in Wellington, we had a brief conversation about the difficulty in designating the beginning to a process orientated project, a topic that seems to be recurring. Did this project begin when I got off the plane to be picked up by Andrea and Steven? Or did it begin with the dinner we had in the gallery on Friday night? Or the next day, after we cleaned up, and Laura and Amit (metaphorically) handed the space over to me? Or is it only now as I finally get around to posting this on the blog? Maybe it was when I resumed reading <i>Conversations with Art/Space/Nature</i> on the flight over here (more on that later). It seems that the beginning of this project has come on slowly, with many potential starting points, that may only become clear when looking back from the end of it. </span></div><a name='more'></a><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Andrea and I have been discussing this project in terms of being an unfolding process, in which the role of documentation becomes integral to the project as a whole, with the blog fulfilling both the part of documentation, as well as being a vital component – perhaps the most significant part – of the project’s production. Yesterday, we talked about the gallery space functioning as a ‘container’, a physical framework, which anchors the virtual framework of the blog. We hope the blog will become an accumulation of small moments, observations and events, and most importantly recording an ongoing dialogue between us.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now Andrea has gone back to Christchurch and I’m occupying <i>Alterations</i> here, watching the movements of people passing by, often with bemused expressions on their faces as they glimpse me; observing the shifting light, faint through the on and off drizzle outside; and getting a feel for the galley space – its volume, acoustics, smell and temperature, and other small details. The space is located at the top of a steep and narrow pedestrian passage called Plimmer Steps, named after the founding father of Wellington, whose vaguely comical statue marks the entrance of the path. Opposite is a car-park and next door is a little café, run by a guy called Steve who made us wonderful coffee.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Laura told me about how she found the <i>Alterations</i> site, while going to get her skirt taken in at a tailor just over the other side on the Plimmer Steps. It seemed a coincidence that she found this shop for lease with a sign for the old business – clothing ‘alterations’. The space, apparently, was painted grey on the bottom half of the walls and green above. Though two walls were painted white, on the left wall this old colour scheme remains, the green colour now being reflected in the logo. The diamond patterned linoleum floor was washed and left as it is, as a remnant of the site’s past. A past project involved taking out the windows for the duration of the exhibition, and then re-installing them with the word ‘ALTERATIONS’ facing into the space instead of out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are so many potentials in the space for possible things to engage with: a tap in the corner which has no sink – but still functions, the grey wall which suggests a projection, the raised plant bed outside, etc. These remain to be explored, however here is an overview of a few ideas for props which might frame some of the activities that will occur in the space:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><style>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Welcome to the Observations, propositions and re-presentations blog! This is where we will record the process of the residency at</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i><a href="http://www.altsproject.info/">Alterations</a></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> over the next three weeks. Below is the text we prepared as a press release to introduce the project, and photos taken by Amit Charan:<br />
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Beginning the first day after a New Moon, Thea Rechner’s residency at Alterations will operate as a workshop over three weeks in February. Working within the spectrum of the visible, Rechner’s practice examines art’s role in framing and re-framing what can be seen or experienced, and how these often ephemeral phenomena can take on significance beyond the everyday. </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Starting from the premise that ‘all art is a process of framing,’ and drawing on the ephemerality, provisionality and duration of the everyday, the project explores how we make meaning through techniques of observation, proposition and re-presentation. During the first week of the residency Rechner will make a series of observations, imaging her local surroundings via a range of recordings, mappings, chartings and drawings. In week two Rechner will work through a series of propositions, experimenting with raw and collected material such as refracted light and plants, to explore growth and movement through everyday situations. For the third and final week Rechner will re-present and recontextualise these observations and experiments in a range of media as a means of generating new encounters, experiences and meanings. <br />
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Over the course of the exhibition Rechner and curator Andrea Bell will use a blog as a means of documenting and reframing their investigations in the gallery and beyond.</span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0