Oleg Post 1

I will make wooden sculptures about current global issues. I will use animal imagery to illustrate, question, and show my views on these issues. (In a nut shell)

Amalie's links

Was looking at the idea of fantasy and the micro/macro organisms existing in
our worlds (partially unknown) to etch for printmaking.
I have always been fascinated by this idea of molecular forms and tiny
universes so this website is absolutely fantastic:

http://spacecollective.org/gallery/

and

http://spacecollective.org/projects/

Note regarding week 4

Week 4: 303
In week 4, on the Monday afternoon, staff will swap to another
group to view students work 1:1. This is to be the first of two sessions ­
the second in week 8 will be a cross ­staff critique.

Brydie Post 1

Why do people construct illusions to deal with reality?

(Representation from a child’s point of view).

I have been looking at the work of Constantin Brancusi, especially his works focused around children (eg: First Step, First Cry). I am interested in the works relationship to the body and changing of scale, as is evident in Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Wonderland. At this point the illusions that I will be looking into are ones created by parents for their children, eg: the myth of Santa or babies being delivered by a stork and the potential disappointment and/or distrust they can create (as discussed in Freud’s The Future of Illusions).These myths are designed, I suppose, to protect children. But from what?

I am anticipating this being a sculpture-based project as I want to explore many of the methods used by Brancusi and also the assemblages he creates using several different materials eg: wood,metal and marble. I plan to begin working with wood as it seems a logical start-point as I became familiar with it in my fields of practise paper last semester.

Links from Jim's Talk

Examples of Data Visualisation
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/links.cfm
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
http://www.syedrezaali.com/blog/?m=200903
http://www.syedrezaali.com/dv/3D_Dewey_Visualization/
http://processing.org/exhibition/

Graphic Design
http://www.newworkmag.com/issue3.html
http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/visit.php
http://www.floatermagazine.com/issue01/on_Floatation/
http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/archive/lostformats.html
http://butdoesitfloat.com/49699
http://workroom.kr/works_2007.html

Video from TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/joann_kuchera_morin_tours_the_allosphere.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.htm

Kim’s Museum
http://www.youtube.com/v/gaFbmuEUdwI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

Blogs
http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/
http://badbritisharchitecture.blogspot.com/
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/
http://fantasticjournal.blogspot.com
http://theartofmemory.blogspot.com
http://architecture.myninjaplease.com/?p=1622

Libraries and Resources
http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/index.html centre for land use interpretation
http:/www.photolib.noaa.gov/index.html
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bundesarchiv
http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/
http://www.greatbuildings.com
http://openhumanitiespress.org/
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/category/academic-service/academic-service-archive/

Net Publishing -an example and a library source
http://www.farnish.plus.com/amatterofscale/chapter1.htm
http://www.scribd.com

Tools
http://www.librarything.com
http://newsmap.jp/
http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html
http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_converter/area.html

Chain of Looking
http://www.google.com/search?q=grossman-stiglitz%20paradox
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/public.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/5558215/Nobel-prize-Lectures
http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=market+for+lemons&meta=&aq=0&oq=market+for+

Miscellaneous
http://www.youshouldhaveseenthis.com/
http://www.longbets.org/bets

Matt Post 1

I aim to investigate how the cross over between two cultural scales; international mass consumerism and local consumerism work, creating underlying or forgotten truths in which New Zealand embodies, yet does not expose. In other words, how are some of the darker aspects of our mass society constructed, circulated and finally, hidden. It seems that New Zealand, like many other small, young countries, is constantly in tension with the larger world surrounding. There is a drive to keep up, being pulled back by the hope of retaining our uniqueness and individuality. Is this tension the cause and effect of things in which the majority of our population brush under the carpet and choose not to think about? What happens when they are brought out and talked about without pointing a finger and blaming? There are three levels of local underlying truths, brought about or influenced by an international mass consumer culture I intend to investigate, document and scrutinise. They will be looked at as:

1. The Forgotten – borrowed and appropriated racism
2. Personal Experience – random acts of violence
3. The Reported – recreational drug trade

These three areas will make up a body of work which I aim to communicate narrative, quantification, structuring and semiotics to talk about notions of ‘human problems’ within our local consumer society.

Wiremu Post 1

I want to expand my knowledge of the things I can do that reflect on a journey about my ancestors and me. I want to go into depth with it.
I want to challenge myself to accomplish artwork which tells the viewer what I want to portray. Not make it too obvious though.
Pretty much I want to work in the realm of Maori.

Shinae Post 1

Korean traditional juvenile song

Magpie’s new year day (까치 설날)

1.까치 까치 설날은 어저께고요 
우리 우리 설날은 오늘이래요 
곱고 고운 댕기도 내가 들이고 
새로 사온 신발도 내가 신어요.

Magpie, magpie's new year's day / was yesterday
Our, our new year's day / is today
Pretty, pretty pigtail ribbon, / I put (it) on myself (혹은 myself put it on)
Newly bought (my) shoes / I put (it) on myself 

2.우리 언니 저고리 노랑 저고리 
우리 동생 저고리 색동 저고리
아버지와 어머니 호사 하시고 
우리들의 절 받기 좋아하셔요.

My sisters’ jacket / is a yellow on-e
My brother’s jacket / is a colorful on-e
Dad and mom are having / a happy day
They love to see us / bowing to them.


3.우리집 뒤뜰에는 널을 놓고서
상 들이고 잣 까고 호두 까면서
언니하고 정답게 널을 뛰고 
나는 나는 좋아요 참말 좋아요 .

We set a seesaw-board / in our backyard 
Set a table, crack pine-nuts / and crack walnuts
Play seesaw with my sister / happily together
I am, I am happy. / More than happier.

4.무서웠던 아버지 순해지시고
우리 우리 내 동생 울지 않아요 
이 집 저 집 윷놀이 널뛰는 소리
나는 나는 설날이 참말 좋아요

Strictly my father becomes / nicer for the day
My, my brother / doesn’t cry. 
Here and there sounds of / board games and seesaw
I am, I am happy. / More than happier




In the semester two, I am thinking to continue to work my last semesters work. Last semester work is about the five towers have been constructed with delicate sensibility to interpret the multiplicity of Korean pottery. The plates and bowls have been recreated following the method of European style while retaining the beauty and passion of the Korean culture and its everyday life. They are not about explicitly expressing what is lost, the cultural qualities that may have begun disappearing over social standards. Rather, they are meant to influence and change the way people think and value social, general and daily things in a subtle way. In the list of Korean National Treasures, there are a total of 29 towers; 5 of these towers that I have visited in my childhood have been recreated as a brand new art.



This time, I want to explore the idea about my birth country Korea and New Zealand’s culture issues to create in an artwork. I am not sure that what I want to start but I have few basic ideas, and i will start the first idea then later do others and keep develop them.


The first idea: In Korea has no national bird but everyone just believes that the national bird is a magpie, because of old Korean folk song about New Year. Every 1st January Korean sings the song and the lyric says ‘the magpie comes in New Year and it brings happiness and peaces to all people.’ I am interested a traditional folklore about the magpie brings happiness and peace. Also in the Korean traditional pottery’s painting, the magpie comes a lot because of the traditional folklore I think. In addition, the birds and also the magpie always moves and changes the place every year, every different seasons so inspired the idea about moving places to show that where is my places. So this time I am thinking to use this story to create artworks. The medium will be white clay or slip casting etc. I want to show and find my identity and cultures from this work, and it does provide a new way of looking at an old ideas. I started to look and find the history of pottery art for bibliography. (seung yul oh's oddooki (bird) exhibition was one of the good example)

In the drawing which I attached is that I started to draw the magpie and tried to make the abstract shapes. I am thinking to make those kind of style by the clay.


This time I want to show the possibility that new form and meanings can be rediscovered from what already exists by connecting the past and present to create something new and different. From this project, what I want to comprehend is that throughout the process, my focus becomes an effort to dig further into the internal emotions and subtle messages rather than explicit appearance.

Sandy Post 1

I was looking at an egg one day and found it had its own personality. For me, the formal qualities of an egg could represent many 'human characteristics' such as fragility, instablility etc. I'm inspired to make series of sculptural objects (or paintings) that could act as avatars/alter-egos. To start off, I'm planning to make some concept drawings and then develop them into more substantial works. Some of the key ideas that I'm interested in are related to ideas of fantasy; particularly, the relationship between failure and fantasy.

Sam Post 1

I am going to explore the relationship between object and idea, what happens between the initial idea and the executed outcome.
The process.
Not necessarily the literal process of making, but maybe more the decisions made along the way, finishes, displays, materials.
What has been chosen and what hasn't, how that is conceived by the veiwer and how that is related to the initial idea.


Drawing: a factory - as a relationship between idea and object

MiRae Post 1

For my self-directed project, I want to express myself- as a subject. I would like to investigate my feelings, thoughts and emotions toward to my daily circumstances. So it will be like my daily diary but which has been recorded in various ways- in terms of using different mediums-photo, drawing, video, sound and even making objects. It seems like very broad and unpredictable but I am going to produce the seven outcomes based on mediums and will develop from each medium category. To make the conversation between the outcomes easier, I have chosen the ‘COLOUR’ as a main tool which I think as the strongest and vivid implement of expressing emotions/feelings/thoughts. The work will consider some of the emotive subjects such as desperation, loss and departure…etc.
I have been looking all the works that I have done in Elam so far… and interestingly the most of the works that I was passionate about were all related to me. Therefore, I believe that this project would make me produce my further artworks within excitements.

Kelly Post 1

For my project in 2nd year at Elam, I stalked a unknown man who I saw on the bus. It was the most weirdest thing I have ever done but actually it was fun, discovering about someone by observation.And now, I came up with an idea of " how well do I know about myself?".
Who am I? what kind of person am I? Do I really know myself? What if, stalking, in other word, "researching" about myself? Would I find any new things about me? As a starting point, I will start to observe myself by documenting my daily life and pattern for 1-2 weeks.


http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2008/09/33-ways-to-spy-on-yourself.html
http://www.aquinox.net/blog/2007/01/would_you_dare_to_stalk_yourse.html
http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/the-shadow/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbyladybug/111018626/meta/
http://www.eightartgallery.com/eng/?site=artister&art=li9

Gina Post 1

I'm interested in seeing what my chosen character of Kewpie can do in art by exploring ideas of rebirth, the masquerade, and of giving and receiving by making use of structures that already exist in business and religion.

Anna Post 1

Ok well pragraph hmmmm. I have become increasingly interested in the fields of planning/urban design/architecture, in fact I might just do a Master of Planning Practice after Elam. So that is where my area if investigation is to be placed. Recently i have been especially drawn to the issues surrounding public spaces: the ways they are used, what constitutes a good/bad one, how/why/by whom they are constructed, and so on. I'm always really drawn to abandoned land, especially existing in the central city, where space is so sought after. Perhaps I shall pick an area like this and explore possibilities it may hold. I really want to do some watercolours, which relates to the subject anyway. Then probably progress onto some marquette/paper sculpture-y stuff and maybe public intervention-y things I've done in the past. Investegation into a specific place. Maybe.

Akura Post 1

I want to use this project as an opportunity to develop my knowledge
and understanding of sculpture and to incorporate it as an integral
part of my developing art practice.
Late last semester I produced several micro wax sculptures that I want
to extend upon conceptually, yet physically strip to their essential
forms.
I will use this as a starting point for an entirely new body of work.
Particularly I am interested in creating objects that evoke visceral
emotions in the viewer and that are ancient and contemporary at the
same time.
I will be intensively exploring the relation between form and material.
How simple shifts in process and material can transform and transmute
objects, activating new potential and tensions.
Initially I will be using plaster and later work in bronze
experimenting with as many patinas as possible. I am however open to
introducing new processes and materials.

Currently I am reading about base materialism, classical archaeology,
Lacan’s OBJET (PETIT) a, and informe.

Artists: Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Lucio
Fontana, Eva Hesse, and Piero Manzoni.

Alex Post 1

Alex Davidson

Maybe you could say that in terms of space, all photographs have two, distinct existences. There is the former, and often distant space one is invited to enter into; the pictorial space that once was real, and now is an image. And then afterwards, there is the space they occupy physically in the real, tangible world, usually like piece of paper - slight and thin - but that once again takes up physical space.

I want to work with objects and images. I want to create relations between an object and an image that can highlight the displacement between the image and the object. In other words, draw the focus to the distance between the pictorial space (photograph) and the real space (the object physically present to the viewer). I want to do this by creating an echo, a repetition, or a kind of connection between what is present physically, and what can be seen in the image. So in a sense, bringing the object and the image together with a balance and an agreement, and a sense of dependency on one another.

Zac post 1

Statement for a party in 3 parts, with a photograph

I am interested in moving, in being. I feel that this can be
manifested in the availability of the objects and materials that I use
and the economy of means to which they are treated. I like to use
things that are available, but things that are available to specific
situations. It’s partly about being a body and moving from place to
place, and being affirmative of something existing at a very specific,
very present moment.

My work is shaped out of the fluid conditions that form my encounter
with the world.

Perhaps an over all drive is - without becoming overly or blindly
idealistic - how to attain freedom. How to free oneself from the
present, from ideas, from objects, beliefs, positions, known things.
To, for a fleeting moment, have a sense of things beyond language or
the known.

In-turn, how freedom might transform the known.

Class List

Sam Simmons
Brydie Wilson
Akura Pardington
Rose Hansen
Sandy Son
Kelly Lee
Nayun Lim
Zac Langdon-Pole
Matt Coldicutt
Gina Granwal
Oleg Polounine
Anna Tokareva
Shinae Suh
Mirae Hwang
Alex Davidson
Wiremu Kawiti

Week One

Week One: Tuesday Morning
Meet in the lecture theatre for year group meeting and Artist Talks.

11am travel to Starkwhite Gallery
www.starkwhite.co.nz.
Location: 510 Karangahape Road, Auckland.

Please arrive by 11.30
Discussion group meeting on main gallery space at 11.30

Task: Week One
Please revise your statement into the format of one paragraph and a drawing. This might be a diagram, an element of found material,or a sketch, in other words anything you think is relevant. This should be emailed before Friday to j.speers@auckland.ac.nz

Self-Directed Studio

The project is open. Discussion will revolve around the meaning of materials and processes. This studio project is designed to support the development of productive individual practices through the testing and development of a making project. Tools used will include:

Discussion in pairs
Group Conversation
Crits
Shared Research Activities
Individual feedback
Shared commentary on work as it occurs(postings)

Timetable
Monday afternoon
Group meeting: Task set

Discussion
Tuesday morning
Research activity and or paired feedback

Project Outcomes
1. The production of seven artworks of which four should be developed to be highly considered outcomes
2. Independent research record of a form appropriate to your making process.
3. The completion of tasks set and posted on the blog weekly for eight weeks