Play Project: Thinking about Alicia Frankovich, Laresa Kosloff and Joan Jonas

After a chat with Andy a few days ago and talking through some other artists that I could be looking at, which included Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman. After watching a few of their video works on Youtube, it kind of gave me the courage to pick up a camera and start to play. The simplicity of some of the works allowed me to purely play because I had seen that it need not be complicated. I also realise that I need to talk to other lectures who have different practices so that I can gather other perspectives on directions I could explore.

I started out shooting a video of my hands playing with a rubber band. Then I moved out to the foyer space with a camera and three pieces of ply wood. After showing the photos to Tarryn, she came and took photos for me so that my body could be in the shots and have a relationship to the materials I was playing with. This I had a lot more fun with and liked having someone to bounce ideas off. Having Tarryn taking the photos also meant that I didn't have a control over the photos which would end up as the works themselves as documentation of my actions and experiments. This type of freedom is similar to Alicia Frankovich's way of using audience members of untrained performers in many of her performance works - so that they never holds an exact and predetermined outcome.

Below are couple of images that Tarryn and I took yesterday. Click on the tab at the top called "Work" for more of the photos.

Push Back, 2/10/12, Ply wood. In foyer of level 4

Play Project #2, 2/10/12, Ply wood. In foyer of level 4

Play Project #1, 2/10/12, Ply wood. In stairwell between level 5 and 4

Play Project #3, 2/10/12, Ply wood. In foyer of level 4

Play Project #4, 2/10/12, Ply wood. In foyer of level 4

Play Project #5, 2/10/12, Ply wood. In foyer of level 4

Play Project #6, 2/10/12, Ply wood. In foyer of level 4

Play Project #7, 2/10/12, Ply wood. In doorway, foyer of level 4