HomeKit*

We have just joined our Chosen Platforms and our week task was to create an archive of A6 sketches and photos of everything to do with our topic. Our group was cleaning. I analysed my flatmates cleaning habits and what they did as their everyday routine. These are a few pieces I did. Our next task is to create a HomeKit device that incorporates all different aspects of cleaning into a compressed device/installation.

Rebecca Horne

Rebecca Horne is an artist I have looked at with her links to performance through sculpture and spatial installations. In the first performances, the body-extensions (above), she shows the equilibrium between body and space. Her later pieces, she replaces the human body with kinetic sculptures which take on their own life. Her new works define and cut through spaces with reflections of mirrors, light and music.

NYC

One day I'll escape there. The cupcake reminded me of you.

Sam Sailisbury

Love. Pictures I took at the Marc Jancou Contemporary Gallery West 24th Street New York.

Hussein Chalayan at B-side

An exhibition I saw the other week was the work of Hussein Chalayan, his exhibition was somewhat very different to others I have been to, but in a good way. Chalayan has always been interested in presenting his work in a way where you single out moments where you might see as part of a catwalk but in the form of an exhibition where you can digest the work and think about the ideas behind it.

He exemplifies a particular way of thinking where his work crosses disciplines. He collaborates with scientists, engineers and biologists and manages to humanise technological tricks.

The B-side exhibition combines two different projects. The Anaesthetics video is based on 11 chapters about institutions and the violence behind institutions. The film itself is very disjointed, but themes that link within each scene. He remakes the props from the film into framed boxes where the audience can view them in more detail.

Inertia was a previous project Chalayan did, involving dresses frozen in movement. The exhibition it is a continuation of this, demonstrating a crash scene in mould making. They show negatives as well, the origins of where the dresses came from.

“I produce these ideas because I am excited and you share that with people. They can like it or hate it as long as there’s a response of some kind even if its dislike, I think that means something”