Start of the blog, and rather belatedly!
So I think what I'm going to do is just intorduce my work to the blog and then I will look at how other work is desplayed in galleries and such as this is the problem I am currently facing in my studio space with regards to the small experiments I have been undertaking.
So my project is looking into the abject and why bodily fluids are frowned upon as a material within the art world. To begin with I looked at just bodily fluids in general but then refined my medium to just spit after a happy accident of a drawing using spit.
I'm currently working on some small pieces in my studio space which initially I attached to my wall with white tac HUUUUUGE mistake, they look cheapened and the small tacs distract from the delicate marks found on the paper. (I'll get some pictures up soon)
So now I have taken to using some small silver tacs which feel a lot more considered and delicate within the space and seem to add to the work rather than detract.
I really feel like I need some pictures so I'm going to go and take some and then carry on with this point.
See Vito Acconci’s Seedbed of 1972 or Marina Abramović's Rhythm 10 from 1973 or Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (1973-9) which included her son’s stained nappy liners.
ReplyDeleteMore recently Marko Markovic has been drinking his own blood through a straw. The performance artist sticks a straw straight into a vein in his arm after a nurse has punctured the skin with a needle.
"He keeps sucking until you can see his skin start to turn white from blood loss and his eyelids flicker as if he's about to pass out."