Spectre, by Simon Penney, uses a real time 3D infra-red machine vision system to generate a ghostly 3D facial representation with some autonomous behavior.
The building of the stairs constitutes a significant component of the total impression of the work, on both visual and kinesthetic levels. The design is quite particular as is the embodied experience of the climbing. As with much of my work, the aesthetic manipulation of the users subjective sense of embodiment is central, The play of vertigo, and the associated adrenalin, the lying in a vulnerable position on a dark space, the head hole, like a stocks or a guillotine, all intentionally move the user out of a complacent quasi-objective art viewing mode into a complicit bodily engagement. This is not unlike the interrogation/torture techniques currently condoned by the US military. The play of adrenaline and endorphins in the user is a crucial part of the work.
Feb 19, 2010 by mejiann
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This work was a large-scale performance by conceptual artist Jeremy Deller. It was a live reenactment of the climactic clash between picketing miners of the NUM and riot police, outside the BSC coking plant at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, on 18 June 1984.
Staging the reconstruction of the battle featured 800 people including 280 local residents, a number of people (police and picketers) from the original encounter and reenactors from various groups.
Much of Deller’s work is collaborative. His work has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process.
Feb 19, 2010 by admin
ArtTrail, an annual festival of contemporary artistic practice, facilitates and supports site-specific and site-responsive projects in the Cork City area. It offers the context and support for artists of all disciplines to develop and present work outside their normal studio practice; and brings the audience into direct contact with the work, the artists and the making process.
Feb 04, 2010 by mejiann
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