studio/gallery/place

Art in a box, or in this case a container, in the street, a portable piece, a portable gallery. Interesting.

mind stretch

What does this say to you? How about archive? Museum of piano players? Extermination camp? Seven ages of man? CSI wherever?

my brain hurts/the friday rant

This is how you feel on a Friday afternoon, or is it a Monday morning? Or both! Felt a bit like this yesterday, as if my brain had started to melt, and I wasn't sure if I was going anywhere with this project. One minute you think you know and the next...doubt. So just got on with it today, seeing where the flow would take me. It feels better now. Think there needs to be some issues, challenges, controversy, argument, debate - danger of the studio becoming a cosy corner. Should we care about art school cuts and its politics, the future of art in a time of economic collapse, Gaza, whether art has any relevance to people in Glasgow, what is GOMA about, is it cutting edge, is it modern, should soap operas be banned, is the BBC right to ban the appeal for help for Gaza, did we tell them when they were in the art school, is there a life beyond this bubble?

profile

Tried to get this as my profile picture, but couldn't crack it. Helpers? Not sure it's my best side, but hey the light in the southside is fading. Not got as much done today as hoped. Read some more of Poetics of Space, and liked these bits.

"The first task of the phenomenologist is to find the original shell."

" the titanic importance of setting."

"Thus we cover the universe with drawings we have lived."

glasgow zen

A wee bit of Alan Spence to round off the evening.
On the oneness of self and universe - it's aw wan tae me
On identity in difference - six an hauf a dozen
On walking the pathless path - by the way
On the music of what happens - one singer one song

new white space?

It seems white space has more than one meaning, news to me! But it raises the question is this the new studio? or is it an extension of the studio? the studio of the mind? does it matter? raises some interesting practice and process questions. Watch this space...........I may be gone some time!!
The space in front of me is a blank canvas, page, space to work in - be it 2D, 3D or virtual. Or indeed the space in my mind, the unconscious, imagination, dreams, fantasy. Mind games.

white space

The studio has become the white space, but was it always that way? Seems to have been a 20th century movement to create the clean space that would allow the art to be displayed/created without any impurities effecting its development. This has been carried on into galleries throughout the world - white walls, wooden floors, lighting from ceiling windows or lights.But other institutions are often white too - cells, padded cells, decontamination chambers, operating theatres. Are they creative spaces? What stimulus do they provide? Are they different? The same? What impact does the stated purpose have on the players in each?

studio - in ma cell!!

the studio, the gallery, the cell, the ward, the space, light, shade, cool. wandering or not wandering, daydreaming, asleep!

the black cat has the blues

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Republic will encourage the listening to blues, jazz, rock and the occasional roll and sausage. Currently working on research ideas from thomas hirshhorn and gillian wearing among others.

Some posssible ideas around a video, a constructed piece and even a beehive.This is not a reference to Amy Winehouse's hair by the way.

Exploring the difference between the studio space and the padded cell.

Or even the prison cell, the white cube, the gallery space, the de-contamination centre.

More to follow.............................

blowing up or falling down

Who can tell? Does it matter? I like the ambiguity of the picture, interpretation can be left to the viewer - do you agree,or not? Though I think it may be an impact picture after all.

new republic formed.

Welcome to the new republic. Discussions of democracy, autocracy, accuracy, anarchy and tracy will follow. But certainly not monarchy.

Just having a wee ramble about site/place/context. Might try and import some images and the odd bit of text later. First explosion of ideas becomes visual after much hassle and coaching from the nameless one.