the great animal orchestra by UVA
I recently visited the Exhibition Other Spaces by UVA which is a presented by the Store X and The Vinyl Factory at 180 The Strand, in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris.
"The Fondation Cartier is pleased to present "The Great Animal Orchestra", inspired by the work of American musician, Bernie Krause. The exhibition brings together the work of artists from all over the world and invites the public to enjoy an aesthetic meditation, both aural and visual, on the animal kingdom."
Extract is taken from https://www.fondationcartier.com/en/exhibitions/le-grand-orchestre-des-animaux
The contrast between the linear and more textured work on the screens reminds me of both the Random Access piece by Nam June Paik, constant friction between the magnet and the wall and Antony Gormley's Clearing Piece, where the metal also creates a similar texture to the screens in "The Great Animal Orchestra".
antony gormley sketch on clearing piece x magnetic field lines
Clearing II print by Antony Gormley
Magnetic Field Lines Sketch (unknown artist)
The idea of relating ideas and concepts into other things that you can't physically touch was very amusing to us.
ley lines
The world's ley lines are a topic that Savannah and I want to explore in our work as well as other supernatural lines that connect the universe and humans together, such as magnetic field lines.
Ley lines, however, have a spiritual side to their meaning, these have been told to be the world's chakras, likewise, humans also hold invisible chakra lines that balance us spiritually.
sound waves from the exhibition
The sound waves from various pieces at the exhibition as well our way home from university create interesting shapes that we will be using on our knitting samples to convey that relationship between line and sound.
my way home: sound 2
my way home: sound
sistine chapel room 12: sound
human cello piece: sound
random access piece: sound
cables at the paik exhibition
The use of cables at the exhibition was actually really inspiring because it's what makes the screens work. It's a key element from the piece itself, the object that connects everything together to form the art, similarly, in our project we want the lines to portray the connection within aspects of our lives.
perception of the exhibition by other people
People's perception of the exhibition changes depending on who they are. We found it interesting how children's response to the exhibition was through drawing and lines. This reinforces our idea on how children are more expressive towards drawing, such as Paik's view on the world through his child-like mark-making.
Drawings/Paintings Details by Paik:
mark-making at the paik exhibition
Another way Paik mark-makes is through the use of his hands and head. For this piece, Zen for Head Paik explores his connection towards Asiatic caligraphy.
mark-making paik exhibition
We are very interested in Paik's way of mark-making on top of the screens as well as the prints and colours on the screens.
It's almost as if Paik's perception of society isn't of an adult's but of a child. We are going to explore that relationship towards mark-making and colour through our own use of lines, colour scheme, drawing and knitting.
random access by paik x clearing by gormley
The Random Access Piece was incredibly interesting to look at and interact with.
We captured the sound and used it to make drawings. We found the idea of using wire in our project to resemble its use in this piece. We'll be incorporating it in our knitting.
In my drawings, I captured the texture around the lines through charcoal sticks. I found that texture similar to the Antony Gormley Exhibition caused by the metal structure scraping on the wall. I enjoyed the way the connection between magnet/metal and the wall creates intriguing mark-making without it being the artists' main purpose.
nam june paik exhibition
When visiting the Nam June Paik exhibition, we found the relationship between line and sound one of the most interesting things we could develop our project on.
In this photo, I tried to capture the essence of our project as you can see television as a medium to communicate line and technology as a continuous and never-ending topic. As well as the print at the back, with the violin and string attached to it, representing sound, melody and again: the relationship between the two.