Chat with video artist Emily Richardson.
I found our tutorial really engaging and worthwhile, it was refreshing to talk to someone who has no idea who you are and can only go by what you show them. This made me think about my audience and how I want to reach them. I want my artwork to communicate emotions with its audience I want them to associate things with it like their favourite song, or something along those lines. We got talking about how I could do this and how I could force my portraits further.
We came up with a little list which I’ll just write out here:
*Think about how the work is going to be presented: would I like to make a video, a photograph or something in between. Do I want to mix materials? Switch things up, perhaps.
*The words that I add to my portraits all come from my voice so instead of being a metaphorical voice why don’t I record my voice? Why don’t I video myself saying these things? You’d definitely get more of an insight into the work.
*Remember artists who inspire me and find new inspirations too; Marina Abramovic would be a fantastic person for me to look at. Also the 70’s when Feminism rose to prominence in the art industry – spoke about Cindy Sherman. Gillian Wearing would also be good to study too as she takes on personas of people surrounding her, making herself over to look like them.
*What’s fact or fiction?
*Look at video artists and how they use the medium, try to understand that a video can be anything and just as limitless as a camera.
*Perhaps go back to projections – explore the possibility of using old methods with a new mind set.
IT’S TIME TO GET OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK!!!
Quite frankly I’ve been under a lot of stress recently so much so that I’ve made myself ill and I can’t keep doing that, it’s not healthy. I need to find that inspiration again. It’s still there but often supressed by other things – like heading into the studio as much as possible. I need to be honest with myself and set up goals; if I can’t make it in because I need to do work at home I just need to stick to that and not overdo it. You see all my programs are on my desktop computer at home and so sometimes coming into uni is a bit of a waste, I need to get my head around this and figure out a plan of action.
So here is a small to do list and I’ll cross it off post by post:
*Research artists, watch films, and draw inspiration from anywhere.
*Get experimenting outside of the sketchbook I have enough material for now – Projections, speech recording, videos, webcam – anything.
