the first day

these are what we are bring to the meeting for the exhibition on 25th

making the blog

Yamasaki's face on the screen

Chang

Los Carpinteros- Showroom at the Hayward Gallery 2008

Los Carpinteros had an installation at the Hayward gallery in 2008, featuring an explosion of suspended objects which could be seen through a hole made in a brick wall. This is an exciting piece which reminds me of the work of Cornelia Parker, and had I known about this earlier, I would have used it in my project as the method of suspending objects as well as the theme of destruction and reconstruction made this almost perfect as an artist to look at.

YuLong

Yasmin

With the theme of Remberence (and also Ive been working alot with the idea of death and memory) I have been looking at different ways we can reinforce and reinvoke memories.

I hate to repeat it again and again, but with what is currently happening  in Syria I am finding it very hard to distance my university work from my personal life, and have as a result, been trying to find ways that can combine both artistic pratice and awareness of the Syrian revolution.

In regards to Syria, my main aim is not only to raise awareness to the public, but also to commedate those who have passed away (i.e remember them.) So my recent work includes doing projections around London, where I have shown a series of stats and then included a short quasi-poem. These projections have been filmed (which is what I could show at the exhibition) and have been uploaded to youtube.


- Yasmin

I was just thinking some more about museums and how they are containers, and reminded me of this photograph ( from here http://www.gadling.com/2011/04/27/the-worlds-ten-creepiest-abandoned-cities/) - the caption is

Kolmanskop

Location: Kolmanskop, Namibia

Story: Once a successful diamond mining community, Kolmanskop is now a desert ghost town where the houses welcome only sand. The desert city was originally built when Germans discovered great mineral wealth in the area. They built the town in an architecturally German style with a ballroom, a theater, and the first tram system in Africa. The desert reclaimed the town when the miners moved on. The sands have filled houses, covered the streets, and slowly erased most signs of civilization aside from the towering homes and public buildings. The sight of a decaying German town in the shifting sands of the Namib desert is anachronistically delightful.

Abandoned since: 1954

Thought that page was quite inspiring for some reason. I suppose all the forgotten places. 

A little random...

Madeleine

 

From Prague to London to Unit Seven. How to put up an exhibition with eight people. Not really knowing yet , I send some images of paper birds in Prague and maybe some wishful thinking and magic can help us ? Im sure Anna Eva Fay will know the answer.
Speaking of sounds in museums , here are some images collected from recent visits to museums here in London.

Found video I had made several years ago from the Museum of Natural History in NYC, not interested in the filming, but the sounds.
Nostalgic sounds - linked to the past - in the museum space, where history is stored and celebrated.

Does anyone know how to turn a video into just a piece of sound?

Madeleine

Shefali, CSM Library Jan 2012