Migration Exhibition

Migration is an exhibition held by Bath Spa students at the Newton Park campus, with the theme of 'Human Interaction with the Environment'.

A collaboration with a group of BSAD artists and designers and Bath Spa SU!  It was an outside exhibition of interventions in the landscape around the lake, woodland and gardens at Newton Park. 

Monday.

Today we went to the 'No Working Title' private view. Along with the free wine and owl shaped cookies there were some really interesting pieces.
Earlier in the year a group students took part in the Tate Project, a collaboration with Norwich University College of the Arts, Winchester School of Art and Bath School of Art and Design, they were partnered up, using instructions that they sent to each other via post email or text they created a piece of work.


The work was exhibited at the Tate Modern for a day and now is traveling around the three unis.

So it's birthday time and crit time

Today was the first and only Critique of the 3rd year, which I think personally is way to early in the year but anyway.

As I mentioned before I was thinking about recreating a new version of the piece I made at Dartmouth, with the tickets on the wall and floor.

I think it worked well as it did before, however I still had a large number of tickets left but left like I couldn't expand it anymore in case of the other works around. 

space before installation

However this did help me into thinking further into this idea; as of the vast amount left over, when the crit has been done and finished I plan to layout the tickets in a different way....not gunna give anything away just yet!

Anyway back to this piece, as I was working with a different space, I can across different problems, that I enjoyed working with but at the same time would rather didn't have to deal with.

The space I occupy is the corner of the studio, where 2/3 of the way up the wall is a large boxed in cables that run right around the room, and on one of the walls, there were two sets of plug sockets. Therefore instead of ignoring them, I made the tickets climb up and over them, bend around them; therefore the final piece isn't just flat against the wall.

I'm not entirely sure what I wish to portray with this piece, but it is linked to my collection theme; large amount of train tickets. (given 90% them aren't mine). and I like this piece just as much finished as when I'm creating it. Apart from how the tickets join the next one along and the fact that they will be on the wall and floor, I have no plans for this piece; it is all entirely spur of the moment. Each ticket is placed in the direction I feel it should be at the second in time, and I never go back and change the pattern, I might however go back and add more to make the pattern more busy, if I feel it is too empty, but once it is placed, it isnt moved.

Free Range

In July 2011, we take our Bath Spa Fine Art Degree Show off to London, to the Free Range graduate art show on Brick Lane.
The amazing Natalia and Layne have been working mega hard on producing a blog to celebrate and commincate our progress up to the show.
Follow us from 'newly hatched eggs to free range hens'

http://www.free-range.org.uk/

Underglass.

Last night, the lovely Natalia, Layne and her Ryan and I went to see the new performance called Underglass in Bristol at The Old Vic
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Under Glass is a new performance piece by the Clod Ensemble, directed by Suzy Willson, composed by Paul Clark. It is a cabaret of performance pieces, which exist within life-size glass cabinets or jars. Each piece features a different performer (who may be a dancer, a performance artist or an actor), a different original musical score and a distinct visual environment and movement language. The glass containers themselves are specially commissioned pieces, made-to-measure for each performer and each performance space. Examining ideas of claustrophobia and belonging, Under Glass is an exploration of how we can live within our limits.

WINNER OF TOTAL THEATRE AWARD 2009

My feet were killing me the whole time and desperately wanted to sit down but once I had forgot about the foot pain, I realised the performace was very eerie.
We were led into a pitch black room, when the lights started to flash on and off over a lady in a jar. With every flash she changed position, which was a short period of time so was very skillful.
Overall it was a very 'scary and creepy' performance, with dramatic music to add to the effect.

Illumnate Bath Week.

So this week has been a brand new yearly arts festival right here in Bath. On Tuesday night I went to the Circus to catch a part of Olivia Thomson's kinetic bike ride

Photo is thanks to Natalia and her blog, it was very cold but the bikes looked amazing all light up, most people had attached glow sticks to their handlebars. Her ambition was 'to encourage people to get back on their bikes, burn some calories, save on petrol costs and have some fun!'

Also at the circus was Sarah Johnston's Luxarbourscope

 It was intended to capture the light from car headlights as they entered the circus roundabout and through he mirrors in the box to project it into the trees, brilliant idea but unfortunately however many cars came past I never saw it work.

After a long walk down to Green Park Tavern Jenny Cooper had her installation set up, 'All that glitters is not Gold'.

This involved viewers taking part, with a OHP and a large collection of found objects.

Over at the pump rooms Bob Ferns had set up an amazing projection. It was all to do with eye tacking, each persons eye movements were recorded as a different coloured dot, they were asked to look at an image of the building for 30 seconds and then asked to draw it from memory.

 Wednesday night, my walk into town pasted the Fashion Museum. I'm not sure if this was related to the festival but the building was lit up in reds and purples! which looked amazing reflected off the wet floor.

 In Milsons Place Will Kendrick and Alex Cotterell had set up a projection. It was to do with their mutual love of colour and light. 

'Working with projectors, screens and video cameras, Alex and Will experiment with fractal formations found in live video feedback to achieve light and colour emissions.

These light based interventions offer an engaged and immersive viewer experience in response to a specific space, catalysing renewed perceptions of spatial parameters.'