2nd Year Design Exhibition. Camberwell College of Arts
Private View: 18 June @ 6.30pm
Individual programme of study
‘A set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.’ (Bourriaud, N. Relational Aesthetics p.113)
In the late 1950’s – 60’s site-specific art emerged as a result of the boom of art movements: Conceptualism, Minimalism, De Stijl, Cubism and Arte Provera, starting out as a de-contextualisation of the museum space. I aim to investigate the work of artists surrounding the notion of site-specificity - work that emphasises the exchange between work of art and the place that defines its meaning; work that is interactive; work that viewers see themselves looking at.
I will map a system by which I travel to 5 chosen places around England/the UK creating site-specific work. The outcomes will not be known, however each will have a finished graphic outcome that will respond to its site, whilst connecting each site to one another.
Over the past 2 years my strengths have shown in my more spontaneous works, such as the projects set in Dungeness and Margate. These projects assisted me in investigating an unknown territory and I noticed myself discovering things that weren’t instantly visible to others. I wanted to draw the viewer’s attention to these things, rather than objects formerly carrying generic seaside associations. More specifically, I chose to investigate the dredging of a beach and the movements of a lighthouse – as opposed to buckets and spades – and so I was able to create detailed projects made precisely in response to my experience of a place and relating to an identified thing.
I will document my journeys from site to site and the work I create within each environment. These projects will provide the perfect opportunity to develop my film photography whilst pushing to work with a broad range of mediums (both on-site and in the studio.) I want to produce a number of publications focusing on the things I discover at each site; this will then be combined to create a series.
Why not associates’ Comedy Carpet in Blackpool, demonstrates how art-based concepts and design can work together to create something beautiful. Artist Gordon Young works alongside WNA, creating art for the public domain, and WNA help bring his concept to life. I want to investigate both sides of this relationship; I am considering collaboration with a conceptual artist, with the aim of making work based on connections between people and place and combining the responses of two separate minds.
Artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Anish Kapoor and Nancy Holt look at the relationship between their work and the public. Anish Kapoor states that he wants the viewer to lose their perception of space, forcing people to use their own senses to guide them through the work, whilst Whiteread wants the space she creates to feel familiar and domestic. I would like to create this same feeling of ‘familiarity’ within my own work, perhaps through elements of nostalgia or the construction of a personal narrative from the viewer’s past experiences. Combining the work’s attachment to my own experience of each place with the viewer’s personal mindscape, I expect to form a diverse set of individual relationships dependent upon context – social and geographical. The artist finds the site and forms a response, whilst the viewer finds the work and forms a response. My interest lies in the relationship between artist and viewer’s responses, acting as the motivation behind my practice and the production of site specific, graphic communication.
By using the curve of a previous experiment I plotted where the blobs should go as a prediction for the curve to flow.
This didn’t occur with the acrylic as again the density of the paint and friction created as a result of the centrifugal force was to heavy for the paint to curve. However it did with the ink, it followed the curve near enough perfectly around apart from the most central one, which after my previous experiments makes sense.
Here I wanted to see what happened when the blobs of paint and ink were positioned further away from the central hole, to see whether the curled line was still created. This did still happen like with the previous experiments.
Maybe now I could test to see at which point the ink begins to curve.
Bringing the blobs of paint and ink closer to the centre of the disks, I wanted to try and see how much difference there was in the friction created by the centrifugal force on the paint and paper.
The more dense the ink the harder it is to move due to its own weight and the force of friction acting on it.
This the is the same experiment but on plastic, all the blobs of paint and ink are in the exact same place as well as the amount of ink/paint used.
Both affects show the same results therefore showing my prediction is correct.
Fabric with acrylic and ink paint.
I was expecting this sort of affect to take place with this experiment as I thought the friction created by the inertia of the centrifugal force would stop the paint from splaying so much.
After watching this I think this will happen to any material used, whether smooth, soft or waxed as I believe from my experiments its the friction/inertia cause that splays the paint.
Straight spin art.
Here I decided to try and take more control over the positioning of the acrylic paint direction. I wanted to see how much it differed from the ink one.
It was interesting to watch as the ink blobs began to merge together again just like the ink ones, however due to the weight of the paint the middle blobs of paint didn’t seem to move, and then curve towards to end of the paper disk.
I want to look more into this to see whether the paint and the friction caused is stronger towards the centre of the paper.
Straight spin art.
Here I decided to try and take more control over the positioning of the ink on the paper. I wanted to see at what point the paint begins to change direction and begin to rotate around the paper, just like the previous ink experiments.
It was interesting to watch as the ink blobs began to merge together to form one line, and then curve towards to end of the paper disk.
Maybe I need to try the same thing again however this time move the spots of ink around the disk, yet the same distances from the centre.
Centrifugal Force
Here I decided to create 2 artworks to show how friction effects the centrifugal force. Each one was done putting a blob of ink/acrylic paint onto the same spot 3cm away from the centre hole. I want to show how the viscosity of the paint is affect not only by the centrifugal force but also by friction, due to the weight of the liquid.
The first image uses acrylic on paper and the second drawing ink.
I have chosen to use Red, Yellow and Blue as the end result of this project will be a workshop within an exhibition with children ages 7-9 therefore using primary colours is relevant to their age group.
Design for each individual piece of paper for my spinner.
‘Centrifugal force is the outward force that draws a rotating body away from the centre of rotation’
Day 1: Experimenting
I wanted to test my machine to see which paints worked best to create successful images.
The last image shows only poster paint being used, which is a slightly heavier paint and therefore made it harder for the force to splay the paint. I then tried using drawing inks, which are a lot more fluid. These worked very well in showing the centrifugal force at work, as they created a spiral affect.
I would like to try this with more colours but also I would like to see whether i can create a system for the paint to first be plotted on the paper to see how the shapes of the spirals differ and how the inks react with one another when they meet.
The relief when it first worked! YAY!
Centrifugal force art spinner.
Made by Beth Baines
Forces to create art.
I have decided to create an instrument that when used correctly creates a centrifugal force, which in turn creates the art.
Using an old bike for its chain and pedal/ball bearing mechanism, I created an instrument that rotates a circular board placed on top of a the gears of the bike.
By doing this I am hoping to created spin art. By placing a piece of paper on top of the circular board and then added drops of paint to the paper, then using the handle to rotate the mechanism, spinning the board.
Over the next week I will be conducting a number of experiments to test the instrument and to create art.
Forces = Art.
(pictures to follow)
Centrifugal Force
I’ve decided to look further into the force of centrifuge. The force that creates an outward force that draws a rotating body away from the centre of rotation. The term centrifugal force is used to refer to one of two distinct concepts: an inertial force observed in a non-inertial reference frame,and a reaction force corresponding to a centripetal force.
