Pamela Reykjavik

Bow Human (2012)

Links well with my previous work of coverings.

Cardboard Artists

http://dbqp.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/bbc-in-alb.html#!/2009/03/bbc-in-alb.html

http://telavivartdesign.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/nina-lindgren-stockholm-new-realities.html

http://inhabitat.com/cartonlandia-incredible-cardboard-city-made-from-hundreds-of-recycled-cards-and-photographs/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zimoun/5132580374/in/photostream/

Cardboard display

Been playing around with how I want my exhibition to look. I covered the whiteboard up with cardboard, and thought it would be a good idea to pile some boxes up to play my laptop in. I thought that this linked well with Emily Speed as the boxes could provide a hiding place and shelter. By taking some photographs of me within the boxes, I could see that it worked well and I really like how just a small area of the body on show makes you realise that there is a whole person hiding.

Ruvanti

How does the vulnerable human body experience the hard reality of steel and the physical power and the violence of the industrial machine ? What does the body feel inside the stressed, nervous industrial space ? The human body is connected to the body of the earth and alienates inside the industrial space. The human body feels by his nervous system. Copper is the nervous system of the earth. The performance "Body - Nervous System - Steel" consists of two parts.

In the first part the students are tied up to the machines of a steelplant while it is working. They are dressed in yellow ( nervous colour ) and are using copper wire ( nervous system ). While interfering in a symbolic way in the production process they feel the force, hardness, violence and weight of the steel and the machine.

During the second part four students are sitting motionless under a yellow cloth facing each other before a life audience in the hall of the steelplant. Only their heads are visible and motionless for the public eyes. The yellow cloth stands for nervous system. Their heads are enlarged by copper coloured hats. The form of the hats refer to the inquisition hats worn by heretics. The students are sitting between two videoscreens showing images of the first part. During the performance the students try to feel the vibrations connected to the industrial space. Under the cloth, invisible for the public, they write down their feelings.

http://aboiten.home.xs4all.nl/ad371.htm

http://users.telenet.be/ruvanti/artgallery7.htm

Pebble Dashing

Roughcast or pebbledash is a coarse plaster surface used on outside walls that consists of lime and sometimes cement mixed with sand, small gravel, and often pebbles or shells. The materials are mixed into a slurry and are then thrown at the working surface with a trowel or scoop. The idea is to maintain an even spread, free from lumps, ridges or runs and without missing any background.

Roughcasting incorporates the stones in the mix whereas pebbledashing adds them on top.

People in locations

Forniphilia

"The act of turning a woman into nothing more than a piece of functional furniture is the ultimate goal for many bondage enthusiast. Often completely immobile the woman finds that she is at least useful to her owner, perhaps performing the role of a table, chair or even hatstand."



Alan Jones


http://www.forniphilia.info/articles/2/forniphilia-the-art-of-human-furniture

Rebecca Horn

Weisser Körperfächer (White Body Compartments), 1972
The white fabric fans help to hide the body against the pale backgrounds.

In contrast to this, the clothing the person is actually wearing is black- exposing the body when the fans are slightly shifted.

Paradieswitwe (Paradise Widow), 1975
The body is hidden by a 240cm high instrument with internal wing braces that are matched to a woman's figure. Unable to see the figure for the covering, the only reason we know there is a body is due to the positioning of a mirror behind the piece.The mechanism can be moved to reveal parts of the body.






Im Dreieck (In The Triangle), 1973
Unable to find photographs...

Suggested Final Locations

Desiree Palmen

http://www.desireepalmen.nl/

Sarah Lucas

Nuds
http://dollycreative.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/sarah-lucas-nuds/

Kate Buckley

http://www.katebuckley.net/

Joana Cifre Cerdà

Wool Over My Eyes
http://www.joanacifrecerda.com/page21.html

Home (Bitter) Sweet Home
http://www.joanacifrecerda.com/page22.html

Alexa Meade

"When photographed, the representational painting and the subject being referenced appear to be one and the same as the 3D space of her painted scenes becomes optically compressed into a 2D plane"

Links with Kindersley's work due to covering the face/body. The effect it has is amazing. Colourful paints are used. Confuses the reality by adding something surreal into a normal environment.

Richard Burbridge

I came across Richard Burbridge, a fashion photographer whilst searching for masked faces in photography.

The bellow images are from a shoot for a Swedish magazine.

I love the contrasts between the soft, smooth skins and the rough edges of the props.

Edits

I took some initial photographs so I could play around with effects that I might use.

Covering With Paint

Played around with covering my face with paint. Here I took inspiration from Paul Kindersley as he uses makeup to hide himself can change the reality.

Some of my images are really interesting as the self timer on the camera captured moments where I was in motion and unaware of the timing.

The images could been seen as intruding into someones privacy, almost being the other side of the mirror as I apply my makeup in the morning. Even though I am seen to be applying cover to my face, the images show a naivety and bareness within my empty expressions.

Allen Jones

A Week in the News

7 places we think we know, 7 news stories we think we understand                  

A 35 minute video which examines how the global media has manipulated particular news stories to create specific stereotypes about certain places. It contrasts two styles of presenting news that have at their root two opposing value systems e.g. scrolling subtitles text reminiscent of mainstream news outlets like CNN, with a guerrilla news filmmaking style adopted by grassroots media organisations like Indymedia who provide up to the minute alternative news to the mainstream. Each video location presents true and false images and facts about that specific country.






SOUTH AFRICA: 9 JULY 2000
The day President Mbeki denied that HIV virus causes AIDS.

AFGHANISTAN 7 OCTOBER 2001
The day of the first US bomb strikes against the Taliban

DARFUR: 31 JANUARY 2005
The day the UN refused to describe Darfur crisis as a genocide

NEW ORLEANS: 1 SEPTEMBER 2005
The day after President George Bush Junior celebrated VJ day while Hurricane Katrina was destroying New Orleans .

TIBET: 30 SEPTEMBER 2006
The day of the Nangpa La Pass shootings when 18 Tibetans including children fleeing Tibet were shot Chinese Border Security services

AUSTRALIA: 13 FEBRUARY 2008
The day Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized for the mistreatment of Aboriginal peoples.

HAITI: 12 JANUARY 2010
  The day a catastrophic earthquake killed over 100,000 people and left 2 million orphans in Haiti.

http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=9891
http://www.lux.org.uk/collection/artists/grace-ndiritu

Still Life

By Grace Ndiritu

"A return to the organic Shakti Goddess power of Mother Nature in Study no. 4 is inevitable after seeing a horrifying reflection of the artificial, paranoid, neurotic internal world in Study no.1 & 3 epitomized by todays post-modern urban landscape. One of the starting points for the positions was the traditional Buddha poses of walking, standing, sitting, reclining. "
- Grace Ndiritu

As well as referring to famous stanses, Still Life also relate to Buddha. So it is also religious.

Her work is mainly about politics and global issues concerning the inequality and degrading of human beings due to war and poverty. Grace infuses her work performances with music, landscape, fabric and passion.
Ndiritu covers the body in fabric, mostly with prints that would be found within her culture. When I watched her performance, i firstly felt uneasy, as if I shouldn't be watching such an intimate scene when she is touching   and stroking herself.
I like the sense of verability it has from bedding covered, but also the power from the poses and the way she moves.