I've reached a turning point in my creative practice and I'm confused about where to go next (you might want to read more about this over in a little hummingbird land). Reduce, reuse, recycle and educate is a mantra I've adopted in most areas of my life - transport, food consumption, communal living etc... Yet when it comes to art, I'm full of contradictions: I often use chemically-based paints on newly-acquired sweatshop-made canvasses; I'm creating material objects that people can add to their collection of consumerables
So what does it mean to make environmentallly sustainable creative work? Is it simply about the material we use? Or is it about artistic intention?
Jules, Rhi and I over the next few hours will chat online about our ideas on the function of art and their relation to environmental sustainability. Feel free join in with us!
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Friday, May 9
Monday, February 25
The long drive up to Blackheath gave me an opportunity to think about ideas for our project. And one of the thoughts I thunk was to do with blurring the boundaries between reality and art.
As an audience member, I thought it would be interesting to be walking in the native environment surrounding Bundanon, and to see a bug sitting on a rock, and need to do a double take in order to work out if it was real or fake. Or to see a canvas stuck to a tree, and not be sure where one ended and the other began – part of the canvas could imitate the texture and colours of the tree while the other part was imagined – a fantastical creature leaning against the trunk. Or to be walking past a fence and be momentarily confused about whether what you saw was a missing paling, or a photo of what was on the other side.
According to Julian, this approach has a label – ‘interventions’.
Perhaps these 'interventions' could become more and more fantastical as the artwork progressed.
I get nervous explaining my ideas to the group because what sounds great in my head is sometimes a lot less convincing when it comes out in words.
But thankfully this idea spurred some enthusiasm. Some of the ideas that grew out of our discussion included the exploration of place and how it changes over time. Maybe one of our ‘interventions’ could be a TV screen set in a particular environment, and events on the TV screen – changes caused by wind, light, weather – could occur at a different speed from the more static surroundings.
Using interventions might also give us a vehicle in which we could explore the relationship between the natural and built environments. Where does one stop and the other begin? Could we exaggerate the overlap?
Thinking about our small scale interventions also prompted a conversation about the impact of larger-scale intrusions. The Shoalhaven River runs through Bundanon, and when it was dammed it apparently caused several species of fish to become extinct. Maybe our project could incorporate interventions on a range of different scales?
-Rhiannon
As an audience member, I thought it would be interesting to be walking in the native environment surrounding Bundanon, and to see a bug sitting on a rock, and need to do a double take in order to work out if it was real or fake. Or to see a canvas stuck to a tree, and not be sure where one ended and the other began – part of the canvas could imitate the texture and colours of the tree while the other part was imagined – a fantastical creature leaning against the trunk. Or to be walking past a fence and be momentarily confused about whether what you saw was a missing paling, or a photo of what was on the other side.
According to Julian, this approach has a label – ‘interventions’.
Perhaps these 'interventions' could become more and more fantastical as the artwork progressed.
I get nervous explaining my ideas to the group because what sounds great in my head is sometimes a lot less convincing when it comes out in words.
But thankfully this idea spurred some enthusiasm. Some of the ideas that grew out of our discussion included the exploration of place and how it changes over time. Maybe one of our ‘interventions’ could be a TV screen set in a particular environment, and events on the TV screen – changes caused by wind, light, weather – could occur at a different speed from the more static surroundings.
Using interventions might also give us a vehicle in which we could explore the relationship between the natural and built environments. Where does one stop and the other begin? Could we exaggerate the overlap?
Thinking about our small scale interventions also prompted a conversation about the impact of larger-scale intrusions. The Shoalhaven River runs through Bundanon, and when it was dammed it apparently caused several species of fish to become extinct. Maybe our project could incorporate interventions on a range of different scales?
-Rhiannon
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