Seizure by sculptor Roger Hiorns, Harper road London
When the installation 'Seizure' at Elephant&Castle re-opened I knew I wasn't going to miss out on the experience this time (it first opened in 2008). I heard from quite a few people who went to see it that is was impressive to say the least. Somehow I had never heard anybody mentioning the procedure the installation was built, but when I walked in I immediately thought about biology lessions back in high school where we 'grew' crystals. The process is called copper sulphate crystallisation and Roger Hiorns is saying the following about why he chose it: "I was very interested in the idea that the artwork would exist aesthetically without my hand, and interested in not being present for most of the making." (from 'The impregnation of an Object' - Artangel)
Its hard to envision that this flat was transformed into a watertight tank for the purpose of the crystallisation. On the gloomy and rainy afternoon I went to see Seizure is was also difficult to imagine that for two and a half weeks of the construction the temperature in the flat was between 30 and 60 degrees celcius.
Monday, 25 January 2010
Friday, 1 January 2010
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
animation - one of the scenes - set up
The scene with fishes swimming in a school from one side to the other worked out quite well. Over blue background we constructed another invisible layer made from polystyrene and a sheet of acetate. This way we created the special effect of fishes swimming passed eachother.
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
This drawing (section) goes together with the axonometrics from the post on 17.12.09. This whole blogging thing is fun but its hard to move things around or add things to older posts is my experince. Anyway here you can see how i added some anatomy drawing (brains) to the section (A) of the body armour. Since the structure is made of small flat pieces of cardboard and in itself doesnt have a lot of depth, by adding the anatomy details of the brains it becomes more lively.
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Induction: In Between Spaces
In the project brief it is mentioned that our 'structure' needs to make use of an under-used space and at the same time fit and protect the body of a human figure.
Our site is Tate Britain - river side. There are some benches against the wall of the Tate. Throughout the day people come here to sit down and eat their sandwich, to relax, etc.
We wanted to make most use of the space between the benches at the riverside of the Tate and we noticed the potential of it for relaxation. At the time that we worked on the site the space between the benches were slightly overgrown with ivy which brought up associations with us of a retreat in nature.
This led us to design an armour-like garment for meditation so the individual can close of easier from the surrounding influences. The garment/structure is not mobile but fixed, it stays on the site. Like the benches and other furniture in parks in general, it is designed for the visitors to make the most of it there in the outdoors. For this project we were giving cardboard as the chosen material but for longer use a much more sustainable material is required.
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