Presentation

Chris Cook

310 MC

Spectacle

Power

Memory

Research

I went to see an exhibition at

Tate Britain,after hearing about

it on the news, its called work no

850 by controversial artist martin

creed. I decided to go and view

this art piece as I believed the

spectacle of it would be something

special, due to the laws against

running in an art gallery. I picked

up quite a good understanding

from my trip to the tate, but I

was not entirely convinced, that

I understood the true meaning.

I also decided to go and view

university of Westminster mixed media

degree shows,to gain an idea

of what they were producing

as their final piece. I also

was intrigued by art installations

and wanted to find out what

sort of ideas in relation to the

module I could pick up on. I

found that the power of art

installations differed in the way

the audience take in the work.

Something I may look into

using in my final piece.

Idea – Spectacle

After visiting Tate Britain I felt inspired

to really work on spectacle, and

upon visiting the website found out

that I could become one of the runners. I

thought if I was going to understand

‘spectacle’ that I would become the spectacle.

Idea – Memory

I Looked at the work of Maya Deren, as she has done a lot of work based around memory. In her Experimental film Meshes of the Afternoon, everything going on is repeated over and over, sort of groundhog day esq, but with screwed up differences. I found this film very interesting in the way it plays with the minds of the audience. I will look at using this idea as one of my own. Taking a look at a life in a repetitive bubble, in an experimental way. So much so it makes the audience feel uncomfortable watching it.

Idea – Power

I struggled to find an idea about power as there was no      real area I could think of that I could really work on, and then on the day I came back to university, one of the biggest controversies in football to date happened. Watford v reading, where the ball crossed the line for a corner and was given as a goal. So from that I decided to base my idea, around the latest ‘Respect Referee’ campaign. http://soccerlens.com/will-your-club-respect-referees-this-season/9194/

I will look into how much power a referee does or does not  have, from premier league to pub football, and work out    whether or not referees’ deserve respect, due to their current ability of getting everything wrong.

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