white movement

White Movement from Sassa Nikolakouli on Vimeo.

Finally, the video!

Our project is a 7 minutes video of white paint falling slowly on a plexi-glass surface hiding the view of London Bridge and people crossing it. It is called “White Movement” borrowing characteristics from the use of word movement as a statement, while at the same time carrying a colour that indicates perfect simplicity and elimination of any meaning that can be given to it. It is all and nothing at the same time. It is the “White” outside its own “Cube” of meanings ready to be given. It is a free demonstration through a group work.

In the mood

I am in the mood, guys! My apologies for that!

So summer is gone,

leaving no epitaph

It's still warm in the sun,

only that's not enough.

All that true could have come,

like a five-figured fluff,

folded into my palm,

only that's not enough.

No evil was slighted

in the good aftermath

world was festively lighted,

only that's not enough.

Like forever was tucking,

caring, making me laugh.

I was really lucky,

only that's not enough.

No leaves ever seared,

no limbs broken rough.

Day, like glass, washed all cleared,

only that's not enough

-Arseny Tarkovsky-

STOP PROPAGANDA ON PEOPLE'S MINDS

stop the propaganda that countries create!

always think above that!

move towards an upper level!

I swear to you, that the view is much more better when we see things of the human being's perspective!

keep all the philosophers and high thinkers of your countries!

think, as the universal cosmos surrounds you and not your country!

the human nation needs ART!

make the human nation, artists of their lives and not somebody else's life!

think about that, the next time that you have racist feelings towards another person next to you!

make love instead, make art, make victory for the liberation of humans' minds!

the artists have a mission!

to unite, not to separate!

peace and prosperity!

xxx! ;) :)

Ideas on paper.

Draft drawing demonstrating our final idea.

By Fran.

More Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown- Roof Piece (1976)

I was walking once again in south bank. It was a week day late in the afternoon. Distant details were painted with darkness. The sky held the last details of the day light. I noticed London Bridge in the background. I saw a dark river crossing the bridge, hurrying to the other end. This stream was consisting of dark bullets moving close to one another. Forming a mass of darkness, highlighted by the dark yet vivid blue of the sky. These dark figures seemed like phantoms crossing the bridge trying to make it to the other end. Up the stairs I went, reaching the level of the bridge. An unsettling feeling occupied me as I was seeing only people in costumes/business suits forming this powerful mass of people flowing through the bridge. A monochrome view of people emerging from a horror movie. Color was absent. Only "phantoms" everywhere! It reminded me of Iain Sinclair's writings with all its gothic aspects referring to that place. I quickly moved away thinking over the meaning of Guy Debord's words: "human beings can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive".

Square yourself with WHO

square yourself each side up

spread eagled down floor flushed and dead straight

Right angled and clean out floored finally lying low flat broke and quiet down here.

-anarchitecture group- Gordon Matta-Clark

from the exhibition of Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark at barbican gallery

the following link is an essay dedicated to Gordon Matta-Clark and the works of the anarchitecture group.

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/07spring/attlee.htm

Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s

Trisha Brown, Planes (1968)

The exhibition 'Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown and Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York, 1970s' at the Barbican Art Gallery was a good reference to our group project as these artists used city as their stage, inspiration or medium in itself for art in multidisciplinary ways.

I really enjoyed Trisha Brown's 'Planes' (1968), a dance performance where dancers move on a big wall upon which city scenes of New York are projected. As the dancers move, the clarity of how one perceives 'up' and 'down' fades and suddenly one is watching bodies falling through air - a free-fall. In my opinion, this performance especially relates to our own project because similarly the city scenes are "taken away" from their contexts providing viewers a sense of displacement.

Urban interventions

This is just an initial sketch about our project - it is a kind of urban intervention. The plan is to use a transparent surface to frame some specific city scenes and then "cover" them (pouring paint or some other material) in order to process the action of hiding and revealing or vice versa. We will produce a film in which these actions are documented.

A Concept Mindmap

Here is a mindmap we did about our project - hiding and revealing as our main theme. At the moment, we are thinking of doing a site-specific performative action using the city as a setting in order to explore urban and personal notions of the city as well as the redefinitions of places.

A Walk Across the Rooftops with Trisha Brown

At the Barbican

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark

Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s

We went to the Art Gallery at the Barbican today, it costs £8 pounds for students and very much worth it I must say.

(Can we please upload our pictures? :D)

Link

Laurie Anderson - O Superman

relatively irrelevant maybe, but still very interesting!

Renaming the blog.

I have renamed the blog paintintheair.blogspot.com
I think it fits in where we're going to with this project better.
Feel free to change it anytime if you don't like it!

Katharina Grosse

Website

Wax-hiring canon

I saw Anish Kapoor's Shooting in the Corner (2008-2009) in Guggenheim Bilbao. Very cool splashes!

Paint on wall

Katharina Grosse paints directly into space.

Check her painting installations http://www.katharinagrosse.com.

Omar Chacon

Untitled
2005
acrylic on archival cardboard

Roxy Paine- Scumak 2′ (2001)

installation at the Museum of contemporary art Detroit in 2007

Rodney Graham 'wet on wet' installation

http://www.lissongallery.com/#/exhibitions/2007-10-10_rodney-graham/

An artist who had an exhibition in lisson gallery who looked at the process and the practice of painting,

Orion

Spencer Finch,  Orion

TANGO Balls Commercial (no, it's not the Sony Bravia Spot)

Sony "Colours"

Sony Bravia LCD TV Advert (Bouncy Balls) & "The Making of"

Metronomy - On The Motorway by JUL & MAT

Paintings by Holton Rower

Nick Van Woert

Poor Me
Marble impregnated resin bust and polyurethane plastic
35 x 39 x 14 in.
2010

website

Pina Bausch / Cafe Muller / 1-5

WILL KENDRICK

Will Kendrick

Circle Painting 2

2010

75x75cm

Website

Changing the design.

Before:

After:

What do you think?

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/coursesworkshops/22990.htm

Play by Samuel Beckett (Parts 1 & 2)

Have you seen this?

Also favorite!

PAINT PAINT PAINT

helloo all fran here, remembered about an advert that sony made with lots of paint exoplosions on buildings, thought you all might like to have a watch!

Enjoy x

Hello.

This is Maria here and I have just created this blog for our group project. I have to email Fran, Josefina and Sassa now!