2006
Mixed Media
Status: Available artwork
Study Piece Oct 2006
Materials: Old Wedding Dress, Bubble Wrap, Plastic Cover,
Electric Wire and Cables
A first attempt at Site Specific Work
"This unit provides an opportunity to explore different ways of working without the traditional constraints of a flat 2D surface and a frame (as in painting and drawing) or reliance on internal structure of armature (as in sculpture). 'Site specific' art involves the site as being the starting point for the making a work of art, rather than an idea/subject matter. This is a reversal of the art making chain:
idea > material > artwork > display site
now becomes:
display site > idea > material > artwork
The meaning of a site specific work is intimately tied to the site that it occupies. If the work was to be removed from its site it would lose its meaning and function. This means that meaning is no longer internalised in a work of art, instead it spills out and occupies the same space as the viewer."
SPACE - The aim of our Term 2 course (as well as a continuation from Term 1's 'relationship between the artist and their materials) was "the investigation of the non-mimetic aspects of the space that the art work and the viewer share. The focus travels from the surface of the art work, into the 'marked' site, and to the viewer".
