Wednesday, 22 April 2009

The way i present the images of the 'Bank Blessings' is very important. The way I see it, there are two directions i could go down. I can present the imagery in a traditional ancient Egyptian style which would relate to the use of the heron, or I could present it in an executive “banking” style, a brochure or power point perhaps.

(See Alexandre Singh's 'Casual Magick' overhead projector piece - really nice and simple, but very considered and works really well)
http://www.artreview.com/artistInResidence

Each idea is very different and i have to think carefully which to go for.

I need to look at my work anthropologically. Anthropology is the study of human beings everywhere and throughout time. It asks interesting and useful questions like:

"How has the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens influenced its social organization and culture?"

Alfred Gell was a British social anthropologist whose most influential work concerned art, language, symbolism and ritual. Gell's theories offer new possibilities for the cross-cultural study of art, which can be applied not only to the art of small-scale oral societies but also to Western art history.

From what I gathered from this, if we understand more about other cultures we can find similarities between theirs and ours and create art that communicates to a wider audience. Appealing to other cultures is very important since globalisation and now "altermodernism".

1 comment:

  1. Why not look at getting yourself photographed outside Temple Mills, Marshall Street,in Leeds? There is an interesting time and cultural conjuncture in the fact that Leeds has this old factory modelled on an Egyptian temple. One other thought, how you dress in these photographs is very important. Should you be in a business suit?

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