Back To Uni

Back to uni and the first few weeks back in Manchester are as usual amazing...Turns out we have a bit of the Coronation Street set in our studio, my Nan was well excited about that.








As well as a huge Freddy Mercury in the Arndale










And the car from Back To The Future! When they re-released the film...Exciiiiting









Lawrence Malstaff
On the 2nd of october I volunteered to work for the artist Lawrence Malstaff where I was assisting in one of his projects. This project involved being shrink wrapped in plastic. The idea of the project was to provide the person inside the plastic with a meditational sensation, and a re-connection to how it would have felt to be in the womb. My job was to assist someone who was in the plastic, this involved helping him in and out of the plastic, sealing it up properly and making sure that my he was comfortable and safe. I was provided with an emergency stop button to press if my partner became discomforted or was struggling to breathe. Here are a few photo's:
This was the shrink frame that Lawrence Malstaff used in his project
This is Lawrence showing us the techniques and how to function within the plastic
This is my partner guy. Impressed by the moves. And below is me giving it rock all. The sensation is really sickening if you were as hungover/still drunk as me...wasn't a good move












One of my partners was the editor for Dazed and Confused so I landed myself on the website I would like to add :D
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/gallery/22/8711/0/lawrence-malstaff-shrinks-dazed
First and second year party
So we had the party and as usual I raced for the free gin and dominoes pizza. We had the word "builders" to base our party on and be inventive. So here's a few quicky photo's of what "I" did...my group did, I was still in bed due to a hangover but woke up for the hair of the dog that would be available there.










Trip to the galleries
The Interactive arts second year all took a trip to the City Art Gallery and Cube gallery. The City gallery was a lot better I thought because there was more interaction with the art work. I got to play around with them so it was fun.




















Trip to Liverpool Biennial



Here is a video I made from a few photographs of me playing around with a piece of art in Liverpool. I could have spent hours in there.






































This room was great. The idea of it was too look up into the mirror and become one of the crowd. The crowd was purposefully multi-racial. I think the point trying to be put across was being one of the same. Being a society that didnt involve predjudices or differences just because the colour of somebodies skin. I really like that. If only everyone could see like that...



















Once I had seen the entire exhibition it became clear that it was about globalization. I really liked the room that is documented above. It supports the "shelter" project that I will discuss later. My take on the room is "propoganda" and how the media big up the flag of their countries. A persons pride in their country and the feeling that they are "the wining side" through Ad nauseam (a repition of a logo that causes it to seem to be the truth). This type of propoganda causes the people to jump on the bandwagon.

This is an example of the work of Ryan Trecartin. His work is always intriguing. You must carry on watching but the sickness you go through by watching them make you want to pull away. It's a game of tug of war. His work is great but drives me crazy. It always seems to be a bunch of raging homosexuals trying to express something in a dramtically bitchy way, as if they are praciticing in front of a mirror, especially due to the repetition of the scenes, as if trying to make something seem perfect to their supreme westernised obscenity.
The video in Liverpool that I watched involved a whole bunch of transexual men bitching like crazed Paris Hilton's. They were banging on about globalization but none of them seemed to know what they were actually talking about. They seemed to be more concerned with their appearance and looking good in the eyes of the viewer. As if by acting like they gave a shit about globalization their fan population would grow. Which seems like a perfect depiction of western society (celebrities) today...No one kissing your arse anymore?...Buy a African or Chinese baby. Then everyone will think your oh so great! A western trait I'm not proud of. So I loved this video just not for about 10 minutes after watching it once the sickness had passed.

There were also some pretty sick paintings, which I guess can have a lot of meanings to them...But just made me feel a bit ill.




























I guess this could be a metaphor for "Being fucked by the system".
I loved this piece, it was pretty crazy. My idea is that it is showing the journey that air takes and that it seems so exposible and we don't seem to think about it. But it is the most important thing to our lives and without it we deffinately would be!
Once I saw this piece, I was inspired to make paintings with wax myself. Especially if I'm wanting to do a lot on gore and horror. It looks really effective and I want to experiment with it quite a lot in the future.

I've cut and carved at books before and they looked great but I really liked this. I had never thought to do anything like it before so I want to give it a try some time.

Antony Gormley's Statues at Crosby beach

Each statue is a cast of the artist's own body, weighing 1,433lbs (650kg) and standing 6ft 5in (1.96m) tall.