“In
order for there to be an event, there must be an “intervention”
which changes the rules of a situation in order to allow that
particular event to be”
My praxis started by researching
Formlessness and Events. From this research my ideas and influences
have grown and developed into three deeper sections these are:
Substance, Failure and Artist as.
Throughout my studio practice and
research I have been developing my own theory of when formlessness
occurs, the result of this theory is that: Formless can never be a
stationary object, it cannot be a 'thing' it is a process.
The term substance has a broad
definition but for me, it means to ground or support, it is an
individual thing.1
Substance acts as a base, a skeleton on which an object can be built,
it is raw and un-idealist, yet to have purpose or use. It is pure
matter.
Failure , I am interested in the
process of finding failure, without failure you cannot truly
understand a material. Only when we fail can we achieve; but what if
the goal was to fail? “A thing or person that proves
unsuccessful”2,
is the definition of failure, so my aim is to be unsuccessful.
The piece of work that has
encompassed this research so far is the collaborative artwork, 'The
Way Things Go', created by artists Fischli and Weiss.3
This piece demonstrates an artists constant redoing an understanding
of material failure.
Through
this acknowledgment of failure you can learn the pressures and
resistance of the material. This understanding of things, what they
are made from and how an individual object is made.
Finally, 'Artist as...' an idea in
constant flux, continually changing and growing there are no longer
boundaries of disciplines, an artist connects the in-between pushing
through and connecting multiple disciplines, they act as a catalyst,
connecting people, acting in a gap between imagination and reality.
The work I produce encompasses these
ideas with an underlying constant of process. Constantly trying
testing and finding materials often that have a purpose in the
everyday.
1
Oxford English Dictionary, 'Substance', OED Online. (Oxford
University Press, 2012),
(accessed
25 November 2013).
2
Oxford English Dictionary, 'Failure', OED Online. (Oxford
University Press, 1894),
(accessed
25 November 2013).
3Gina
Panzarowsky, 'The Way Things Go', You
Tube.
(accessed
18 December 2013).