Re-submisson for Dion

Filipe Tohi "Hautahu" is a sculpture that is made out of steel poles and used as layers on top of each other and paralleled, forming a lax sculpture. "Hautahu" work is based on the Tongan traditional laxing. i really like this work cause of how Filipe Tohi has transformed his cultural traditional art into modern day art. The layers and three-dimentional view he has created with the steel poles has formed a shape of a diamond. The manipulation the viewers get when all the steel poles are parallel with each other in different direction gets viewers going in various directions. All steel poles from any position viewers look at the sculpture, all the poles are aligned in a 45 degree angle. The work is transparent and visually bright with its location where sunlight reflects, hits the sculpture. The sculpture has a shadow due to the sunlight and directions the sunlight comes from doesn't really change the shape of the shadow cause of the repetition and identical shape of the sculpture from different views. The sculpture makes me feel imprisoned cause of the steel poles shape and form, it creates a three-dimentional cage. The work relates to my studio work where the class have two-dimentional objects and drawings and create three-dimentional objects out of them.

Re-submission for Dion

The 'Tiki Wananga" by Dion Hutch and Charles Koroncho is 3 large sculptures which have links to Maori cultural art. The sculptures title in english terms "God stick" is an object that early Maoris used for rites. Priest would use 'Tiki Wananga" to call upon Gods to bless and help their tribes. Tiki Wananga are usually small but Dion Hutch and Charles Koroncho sculptures are large. I really like the shape it has with the patterns, parallel lines and the fibric optical cables has formed. I really like the way the fibric optical cables has wrapped itself around the sculptures and the way it steadily holds the sculpstures down form the ceiling. the sculptures being wrapped around with fibric optical cables reminds me of Christo "wrapped" projects he has done throghout the past and is similar in a way with both artists work being "wrapped". This work relates to the mould shapes work I just finished in my studio class.

Describe how this work relates to an idea about the everyday?

The work A True Draft of the Whale as it was seen in the River Thomas by Olivia Plender relates to the idea of how making the familiar strange might be a strategy to make the everyday noticeable. The work is an newspaper, an object that is very common and can be found at supermarkets, local Dairies, magazine stores and in households. In A True Draft of the Whale as it was seen in the River Thomas" The newspaper contain an unfamiliar story not associated with the idea of everyday but it is a plan to fill the everyday object so its noticeable to people. The message itself isn't everyday but what the work is presented on is. The newspaper itself is an object of the everyday, noticeable around the world with different stories written from day to day. The story is uncommon and used as a strategy to make newspaper articles noticeable everyday.

Describe how this work relates to an idea about the everyday?

WEEK 2: Describe how the artist use of one of the following relates to the topic of the everyday: Materials/objects, setting, subject matter?

In Laresa Kossloff's work at Artspace gallery, everyday objects such as projectors and glass normally found at homes, business buildings, theater's and Cinemas are used as materials. Films are screened away from each other on purpose to give viewers different views of the projectors screens within the gallery. One of the projectors is placed further away from the entrance and at 1st glance at it, it gets viewers interest from the distance cause it was set differently from the other 2 screens. The viewer can only get good view of the screen when a close-up view of the projector screen is clear, the film is screened on a 32inch rectangular clear-glass hanging down by chains. its giving an illusion of the film being screened in negative space. The films is where the message/subject matter is based, its exploring bodies inhabit space within a urban environment. One film is a Melbourne stocking exchange building on a smooth continuous vertical panning shot,showcasing steel and glass grids. People are moving between the busy, square rooms and office as the continuous shot goes up and down the building

How does the work relate to an idea of everyday?

The work "Ioka"2004 from the series Ioka by Edith Amituanai relates to the idea "When working with the everyday, artist select from their living context". The work is a photographic portrait mid body shot of Ioka holding a cup of tea, showcasing chores and a normal life of pacific islander. Everyday objects are found within the background of the kitchen which shows a bottle of coke. The snapshot tells me Ioka is serving tea/coffee etc, an example of an common activity from the life of an pacific islander and a living context that I can relate to as well.

23/4/2010

We got a new contextual teacher who started on the 1st week after the easter break. His name is William and is from Taiwan, got his Bacholar at AUT in 2001. Our lesson with him was about the everyday life, things that aint surprising to you and repeatedly do or see everyday. I thought it was a great idea cause it relates to our current studio project work. The "Everday life" meaning for an example is like waking up and brushing our teeth every morning which is a normal casual thing compare to going to another country for the 1st time for a holiday. We were looking at photos and given questions to talk about our chosen photos, what message does the photographer want viewers to know and how they have shown it visually and also how it relates to our topic "everday life".