BETWEEN THE CONCEPTION AND THE CREATION
Posted by Bianca Baldi on Monday, May 4, 2009
My conversation project is well on the way. I have sat down with twelve artists thus far and have more scheduled for the coming weeks.
Although I have tried not to guide the conversation in any particular way there has had to be a catalyst in order to start the process.
I'm quite intrigued by two things when looking at my own practice, these two things have become the catalysts for my conversations.The first is that moment you first encounter art and locating when or where that was. Was it a work you made which preempted your current approach to art making? Or was it a work that you saw which epitomized your understanding of art? These thoughts around that first encounter is very influenced by a book I read a few years ago. It was a catalogue of the first artworks the big names in art had produced, what made this interesting for me was looking at what artists selected as the first work of art.
The second thing I've used as a prompt in my conversations has been looking at what happens from the point of conception to the point the idea is birthed as an artwork. I continued to use the birth metaphor when trying to articluate this point, I found it difficult to otherwise explain. In conversation an artist friend she pointed out these stanzas from T.S Eliot's 'The Hollow Men', I find them fitting.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
and the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
In addition to talking about the lead up to the artwork I have urged artists to find artifacts which are the evidence of the pre-production.These artifacts will be collected and displayed with the audio piece for my show which opens on the 25th May 2009
Although I have tried not to guide the conversation in any particular way there has had to be a catalyst in order to start the process.
I'm quite intrigued by two things when looking at my own practice, these two things have become the catalysts for my conversations.The first is that moment you first encounter art and locating when or where that was. Was it a work you made which preempted your current approach to art making? Or was it a work that you saw which epitomized your understanding of art? These thoughts around that first encounter is very influenced by a book I read a few years ago. It was a catalogue of the first artworks the big names in art had produced, what made this interesting for me was looking at what artists selected as the first work of art.
The second thing I've used as a prompt in my conversations has been looking at what happens from the point of conception to the point the idea is birthed as an artwork. I continued to use the birth metaphor when trying to articluate this point, I found it difficult to otherwise explain. In conversation an artist friend she pointed out these stanzas from T.S Eliot's 'The Hollow Men', I find them fitting.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
and the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
In addition to talking about the lead up to the artwork I have urged artists to find artifacts which are the evidence of the pre-production.These artifacts will be collected and displayed with the audio piece for my show which opens on the 25th May 2009
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