Notes for Presentation:
You will be asked to create:
presentation of your proposed work(s) and current findings prior to the final portfolio submission.
verbally with visual/audio aides
outline your major thematic concerns, research and experimentations
Consider
how to formulate your presentation around your final project
relate it to your previous physical experiments, theoretical readings and personal practice
along with any variations/ complications you forsee
convey your work in a professional and succinct manner
Major Thematic Concerns
1) looking at the space within the material and exploring texture and form
2) experiencing the material in different ways and for the audience to see the materials more for what it is (i.e mod roc is much
more than just plaster)
3) showing my experience what learning about the materials and what interested me
4) Inspired by Marisa Merz and Julianna Cerqueira Leite
My concept is looking at the space within the material and exploring both the texture and form, showcasing as well my experience of the material. I want the audience to see and experience the materials for more than what it is, for example. Modroc is much more than just plaster. Throughout the term I have been heavily focused on practice based research, trying a new method of letting the materials guide the experience and the experimentations. I was also inspired by Juliana Cerqueira Leite and Marisa Merz. I am drawn to these two artists because of how they have experimented with materials.
Experimentations (Key highlights)
Plan for final project
(Outline/schedule for the production of your final work)
Week 1 (3rd Thurs - 6th sun) = Experimenting on Modroc (feedback from gallery) and Other Material 1
Week 2 (7th Mon - 13th Sun) = Experimenting on Modroc and Experimenting on Other Material 1
Week 3 (14th Mon - 20th Sun) = Experimenting on Other Material 1 and Other Material 2
Week 4 (21st Mon - 27th Sun) = Other Material 2
Week 5 (28th Mon - 3rd Sun) = Situating finals in gallery, Portfolio finalising
Week 6 (4th Mon - 10 Sun) =. Portfolio finalising, extra time incase experimenting takes longer than expected
Week 7 (11th Mon - 13th Wed) = Last Check over
Script:
These artists inspired me not exactly because of the final outcome but because of how they experimented and viewed the material they were working with as well as how the art continued after that “finished” process. Marisa Merz Untitled (living sculpture) piece has been re-assembled and seen in multiple places and its interesting to see that even after the artist the work is constantly evolving and the material itself as well is changing which touches on what we spoke about in the “unfinished work” seminar where the art continues to have it’s own form outside of the artist. Jualiana is a key turning point for me because of how she changed my views in movement. Before this I was very interested, almost fixated in the point of expressing movement. How she describes her work and how movement is used as a form of communicating the topic she is explore, rather than being the theme itself made me reevaluate my work and my practice. This helped me open my views and gave me more possibilities to explore in and also a lot of freedom.
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From here I heavily focused on practice based research and let the material led me in my experimentations. Starting from here I looked at a simple projection onto the Modroc. I chose to play with Modroc because it is a material that I don’t have much experience so when I started to experiment and play with the material, I moulded and formed the Modroc in a way that felt natural to me, rather than looking at how correct way to use it, it was very instinctual. (Change slide) Not only when the mod roc was wet, during the process of it drying I sculpted it more, from folding and breaking the shape where pieces fell apart , tore it which left the netting also exposed and even peeling away some of the layering which left behind the again that netting texture on the surface of the material. I decided to project onto it because I wanted to highlight that texture on the surface, however the texture did not come up as clearly as I would hope and the attention it more drawn into the image being projected.
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This leads to me to photogrammetry. The photogrammetry was a key point for me because it gave me a new experience with the material and how the scanning didn’t pick up all the point but the main forms created beautiful overlapped shapes and as well as focusing on the textures. For each piece I used a different material, cassette tape working with Mateo, paper and plastic, to then mod roc. Each one has their own characteristics that makes the pieces unique to the material.
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This piece gives me to sense of the material coming alive and its another layer of what the mod roc is and can be viewed as. During this process I was thinking about what the material could do and when we had our lecture on auto-ethnography, it got me thinking about what I have experience with the modroc and how I want to show all of these things that I have personally learn being led from the material.
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Having the work situated in a gallery space also made me realise how much bigger I can go and to look at scale. I also saw the shadow that really interested me, the small tiny straggle bits that was seen on the edge where the projection bleed off slightly. Which was so interesting and created another form of texture created from the material adding another dimension. It ties into my pervious experiment expect I was looking at it differently, instead of looking at what’s on the material but what’s behind it. What I have put up for the show was separate pieces which in actual fact they go together. An idea that was discussed would be to combined all of these art forms together which would also bring all of my experiences together to create one big final piece. Which is were I would like to go for the final.
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Leading into my final piece, my concept is looking at the space within the material and exploring both the texture and form, showcasing as well my experience of the material. I want the audience to see and experience the material for more than what it is, here being Modroc and how it is much more than just plaster.
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My plan for the final piece it to combine all of my experiences of exploring the form, the texture, incorporating as well sound which I will further experiment into as well as scale. Scale can really change the experience of the material as what I have learn from the gallery space. From these experiments, it has guided me into also thinking more about the technique and to really focus on recording my experience. For the sound to add another layer of experience and idea would be to use a transducer to see what the material itself sounds like or to record the sounds created during the making processes or using a Complications would be perhaps the large scale doesn’t work well and perhaps a small more personal piece expresses my personal experience more. The transducer may not translate the sound of the material perhaps, however all of these experiences success and failure are all part of the learning and my learning of the material and I think that to exclude these ‘failure’ would that skew the outcome and I want to show all of the experience and not just chosen ones. Look more that the technique and really think about what I am making, recording the sounds to what I am forming, to record every moment like in the field work of an auto-ethnography but practically and to have more intention with every experience. Using my body in the clay to hold the information of my experience. What am I sculpting, creating the forms with my hands and arm to show my experience, letting the material fall apart. A lot of experimentations that has helped me focus on these questions that I will focus on during the further experimentations leading the to final piece.
(TALK ABOUT TIMELINE)
Slides:
Figure 1 - 11: Presentation Slides
Sourced: Yi Ting Liong, 2020
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