Anastasia WWH: Difference between revisions

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Work 1:

Within a brightly lit, white walled room – with Georgian features (fire place, wide windows of old glass) a duo show, 'Dividual Production' is installed. The floor is a dark wood parquet, the space is domestic or pub-like. Small sculptural works are installed on walls and larger pieces are free-standing. A ‘london plane tree’ holds onto its summer colour outside the window.

Two black yoga mats extend on a diagonal into the centre of the room, where a screen displays projected video, mechanic-support whirrs and a pair of headphones, lie flat on each respective mat. The video shows tools which quantify in various public, private and domestic locations: a thermostat dial is turned through icons indicating temperature, a BMI & blood pressure report is printed, a parking ticket collected and an answer phone re-plays. Shots are separated by a monochrome graphic: (***) which occasionally overlays the non-linear narrative of the footage. A sign in a lift indicates the observation of patients privacy and clipped conversation is pursued throughout.

Created in parallel to sociological research, the video footage was collected over a few months and edited simply. Yoga mats were borrowed from gym where I was teaching Yoga twice a week and the screen is designed for temporary use and transit.

Kyle Galloway and I paired up for this duo show because we both had sculptural practices which were influenced by our ‘day jobs’ in London. Kyle as a plasterer and I as a yoga teacher. We also shared research interests in the ‘sense of self’ and society. I wanted to reflect the conditions the work exists within whilst creating a catalyst for conversation around agency, societal control and industries of wellbeing.

Work 2:

Hanging from the rafters of a victorian industrial looking building there is a piece of thick wooden dowl with clear plastic vinyl draped over it. Held by thick black cotton twill –which is looped over the edges of the dowl and tied to the rafter above. The clear vinyl is roughly rectangular and has a sewn outline – black bias binding follows curved corners at the bottom and a dripping/mountain range edge at the back – this edge is roughly at eye-level. The vinyl is double layered at points, which creates pockets – also partly outlined, so objects within these pockets are suspended at various points and are visible from all sides. A condom, with green bamboo print on one side is held by the traction of two layers of vinyl. One section holds an elaborately entwined bamboo plait – its roots visible and held within a pocket of water. Another pocket holds a white container with a decorated label that reads ‘MACA LIFT ™ ENERGY, PERFORMANCE, STAMINA’ this packaging describes its contents as capsules of a ground root used for…

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-There are two black non-slip mats layed out next to each other. Aligned long ways with just 10-12cm between them( the room is brightly lit, all white – with Georgian features- 1 fire place, wide windows made of 16 smaller panels)
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-The floor – dark wood parquet, a skirting board, domestic or pub-like.  The room has other  small sculptural  works installed on the walls and larger pieces free-standing. A ‘london plane tree’ holds onto its summer color outside the window, leaves flutter. A roll-up screen is self-propped at your feet, projector whirrs by your head, media player with USB clearly visible – connected to Digital Audio Buffer- connected to white headphone splitter attached (grey headphones lie flat on the mats.
-The video shows people using tools which help quantify a thermostat a BMI & blood pressure report is given a large pharmacy “Oh hello again Mork [<?] its me again – this answerphone is cruelly short!”
+Within a brightly lit, white walled room – with Georgian features (fire place, wide windows of old glass) a duo show, 'Dividual Production' is installed. The floor is a dark wood parquet, the space is domestic or pub-like.
-here are also shots which crop closely on the *** ceiling  lights (behind someone who is talking) and a Chinese board game ‘go’ (which we can see is set up next to a hospital bed – A tattoo’d right arm reaches into shot – holding pebble shaped chequers between fore & middle finger and firmly taps it down on the axis of an empty board.
+Small sculptural  works are installed on walls and larger pieces are free-standing. A ‘london plane tree’ holds onto its summer colour outside the window.
-Marginalia = QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS
-The film is broken up with  black  screen that has three  white asterisks in brackets  in the centre – about a third of the width of the screen is covered by this graphic – which at certain points  will overlay other parts of the footage, Hashing up as an interruption , a break , or an elusive annotation. Tw male protagonists – whose faces we never see, are talking to their companion (or the Machinees) about work & life “I think it’s a bit too late, Dad.” And “that’s recent news to me” says one. And “they normally support their staff, unlike other agencies…” Says another. Although the edits in the film
+Two black yoga mats extend on a diagonal into the centre of the room, where a screen displays projected video, mechanic-support whirrs and a pair of headphones, lie flat on each respective mat.
-Do not allow more context to develop.
+The video shows tools which quantify in various public, private and domestic locations: a thermostat dial is turned through icons indicating temperature, a BMI & blood pressure report is printed, a parking ticket collected and an answer phone re-plays. Shots are separated by a monochrome graphic: (***) which occasionally overlays the non-linear narrative of the footage. A sign in a lift indicates the observation of patients privacy and clipped conversation is pursued throughout.
+Created in parallel to sociological research, the video footage was collected over a few months and edited simply. Yoga mats were borrowed from gym where I was teaching Yoga twice a week and the screen is designed for temporary use and transit.
+Kyle Galloway and I paired up for this duo show because we both had sculptural practices which were influenced by our ‘day jobs’ in London. Kyle as a plasterer and I as a yoga teacher. We also shared research interests in the ‘sense of self’ and society. I wanted to reflect the conditions the work exists within whilst creating a catalyst for conversation around agency, societal control and industries of wellbeing.
-HOW:
-The film is made over many months, footage collected indirectly, with no particular end – work envisaged. Simply edited into a loop, the graphic applied as image layer. Yoga mats borrowed from gym where I was teaching in twice a week. Screen easily rolled up or down – designed for temporary use.
+Work 2:
-WHY:
+Hanging from the rafters of a victorian industrial looking building there is a piece of thick wooden dowl with clear plastic vinyl draped over it. Held by thick black cotton twill –which is looped over the edges of the dowl and tied to the rafter above. The clear vinyl is roughly rectangular and has a sewn outline – black bias binding follows curved corners at the bottom and a dripping/mountain range edge at the back – this edge is roughly at eye-level. The vinyl is double layered at points, which creates pockets – also partly outlined, so objects within these pockets are suspended at various points and are visible from all sides.
+A condom, with green bamboo print on one side is held by the traction of  two layers of vinyl. One section holds an elaborately entwined bamboo plait – its roots visible and held within a pocket of water. Another pocket holds a white container with a decorated label that reads ‘MACA LIFT ™ ENERGY, PERFORMANCE, STAMINA’   this packaging describes its contents as capsules of a ground root used for…
-I wanted to reflect the conditions the work existed within, create a catalyst for conversation around agency, societal control, tools and machines which quantify and report (printed receipts were given from 2 machines in video) affect our sense of self & society?