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

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