Chris Burden, Richard Frater, Bauhaus

Chris Burden

Here is the video of the making of "Beam Drop" (2008). Super cool. Simple with awesome sounds as well.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBeU-JmEvFE)

Beam Drop Inhotim, 2008 - Chris Burden - Inhotim - Brazil

We looked at this work at the beginning of the brief and I thought it was amazing - and found the video so here it is. Gravity, balance, weight, movement, construction.


Richard Frater

Assume Nothing – the title of the show, is akin to an instruction to the audience, to slow down and, without prejudice, engage in a process of discovery.
With a gentle nod to the Slow Art Movement, Assume Nothing challenges viewers to spend time to consider the works as opposed to a quick-fix fast-paced witnessing of art. This is initially a simple requirement: to engage with the work, to consider it – in the sense both of looking and thinking.
“The exhibition’s central concern is with the disarming delicacy of the artists’ practices, where apparent simplicity or lightness of touch belies the works’ rigour. We hope the show will silence presumptions and strip externalised explanations of art’s authority. This exhibition is a bold return to an essential consideration of practice. We are asking the audience to engage with the art itself and its capacity to make meaning for us – meaning that is quite apart from any alternate requirement to deliver a narrative, serve an ulterior purpose, reveal a psychology or determine an ideology,” says curator Dr Peter Shand, Deputy Dean of the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries. (http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/news/template/news_item.jsp?cid=483517)

 

2012, steel, nail, needle.

Richard Frater and Simon Lawrence

Richard Frater, U + I, 2008

Richard Frater — Sweet Apparition

Sweet Apparition, 2008, Still image 19 min loop




These all hold a sort of movement as well as a simplicity. 'U + I' seems to hold it's self against gravity and lead the eye around it's form.
Bauhaus


After reading some texts about Laresa Kosloff, Bauhaus was mentioned... had never heard of it so googled it :) - DOC #5 - 
"Play becomes celebration; celebration becomes work; work becomes play,"
I like this quote about work becoming play because that is how I think of my own practice and when I think of my work as play, I make work a lot faster - I think because it alleviates any pressure around making something 'successful'