NEW KINDS OF MEASUREMENTS OF THE BODY PART 2

Brief:

1 week

You are required to revisit the works you made & re-construct/re-organise & re-configure these works

Cracking the dried pastry:

(the video is played backwards first & then forwards!)

Eblogger wont let me upload the images for this project either so I made a slideshow of the process of this project.

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HERE IS THE VIDEO RECORDING FROM INSIDE THE MINI ALIMINIMUM STRUCTURE

45 MINUTES MEASURING MY BODY TEMPERATURE:

(Photographed for 1 hour also.. IT GOT REALLY HOT IN THERE)

I first looked at moss growing as the pastry layers had started forming mould and they reminded me of moss but i realised that it takes weeks to grow moss and also it would have no relationship to a new kind of measurement of the body. The mould from the pastry’s was starting to smell really bad so cracked them into little pieces and I bagged them in seal proof bags, I poured milk into the bags too. It started to look like cereal. From there I started thinking about body heat and heat on the skin, I wanted to record a new way to measure body temperature so I created an aluminium tent and sat in it wrapped in more aluminium. I photographed and video recorded the whole process. I sat for 1 hour, took a break and then for 45 minutes recording every 5 – 10 minutes my temperature with a thermometer. It was really hot in there and my temperature rose by 1 Degree Celsius for 45 minutes and by 1.5 Degrees Celsius for 1 hour. I also got a sheet of pig skin from a butcher which is located at my studio desk. I researched Joseph Beuys and Wim Delvoye for this.

MAUD COTTER TALK AT LSAD

Maud Cotter

B. Wexford, Ireland 1954

Talk at LSAD 26 April 2012

Maud spoke about & showed a slide of photographs of her work. She spoke about building structures (solid and translucent) in relation to the body, moments of time within an object and an identity of an object. She is interested in engineering structures, immobilising materials and materials in space. She said ‘’space exists only when it is opened up’’. I found that her pieces become questions, she made me think about air that gathers under a table, in a cup or in a pocket and how I behave around an object or space. In her many works there are shadows, lines, mirrors to other worlds, extended legs on tables, tables with holes, city like built structures all using conscious and subconscious elements that I find extremely interesting. 

I like how her work goes ‘’beyond its material self and into space’’.  She does alot of experimentations, she is fixated on the smaller moments of the built world and she likes the feel of immobilisation of the materials she uses in her processes. I had heard her name over the past months but never knew anything about her work. I am delighted that I got to be at her talk, her notions of space and objects have me seeing things with brand new eyes.

NEW KINDS OF MEASUREMENTS OF THE BODY PART 1

The Brief

1 Week

Create a sculptural document/chronicle/account/record of new kinds of measurements of your body

Eblogger wont let me upload the images for this project either so I made a slideshow of the process of this project.

CLICK ON THE YOUTUBE VIDEO'S FOR BIGGER SCREEN 

 

I did a few sketches but nothing worked and then out of the blue I thought about how to measure skin and I randomly thought of rolled sheets of pastry. I immediately hit the baking section of Tesco and baked sheets of pastry. From there I wanted to see how they would look like if they were not baked and how I could measure my skin with them. I researched skin weight is 15% of the body’s weight so I rolled out 25 sheets of un-baked pastry & lay them on the studio floor. Each layer weighing 1 Pound, 25 Pounds is my body’s weight in skin. They remained on the floor and over the next two weeks to follow they constantly changed. They dried, cracked and started growing mould. I did not expect such great results from them. I looked at the works of Carl Andre for this project.