at the very moment

further introductions / sneak peek

here is a tiny idea of what i am working on.
tomorrow morning i will film these paper letters on 16mm BW film, with a slow-motion science camera. the film will be hand colored and then digitized. it will be projected upward onto a sheet suspended over a large mattress or piece of foam that the viewer lays on to watch the film. but for now, here is a cell phone video of me working on the letters in the studio. The text may also be the title of my bachelor show.

Not sure yet, it's kind of ...konstig.




-Lily

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Hello Everyone!

Sorry for the extra-ordinarily delayed posting.
To introduce myself: I am Lily (Benson). Currently attending The Cooper Union in NYC.
The reasonexcuse for being so late is that I have only 5 weeks left of art school! I have a solo bachelor’s show in February. It will take place in a large gallery that has a round elevator in the middle of it. I’m making many video and film installations, small drawings, and a longer film called Valentine’s Day. I will post a text-film in progress today or tomorrow.

I wrote a letter to Jorun that is posted below.
The main point of what I wrote is that I prefer group shows that blur the lines between artists and are coherent and possibly even themed. A theme has the potential to be quite corny, as in the case of most themed parties for children, but if chosen carefully and left ambiguous enough; they can be an excellent guide or way of stitching disparate things together. With the show I am working on right now, I made a list of all of the projects I was planning and attempted to draw a theme or connection between them to direct them toward a shared goal. The theme ended up being INVISIBILITY…which is extremely vague, but has helped me sync the overall ideas of each piece.

Melanie: hello! You have an exciting website!
I like what you observed about the group show in Berlin, “it was hard to find out what belonged together and what didn't.” It would be nice to have a similar effect with what include.

Jorun: Can you post pictures of the space?

Susanne: I really like the Vulnerable Positions piece on your site.

Is there anyone else blogging too that I missed?

MUCH MORE SOON!!!!!
Happy Thanksgiving.

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excerpts from a letter responding to jorun's first mail.

-Lily

mexico is calling...

...i'll be back in the beginning of december with new thoughts and ideas! 


*m

Nice to see you here Susanne! Now we are just waiting for Lily to post something. To answer your question Melanie; you are absolutely free to involve more people to this project. The important thing is that we all are free to form this project, but we all have to agree as a group. But if you want to bring someone please invite that person to the blog and then that person could decide if the project sounds interesting.

I also think that it sounds interesting to make the pieces in the show work like the dots in that kind of picture you are describing. But I am concerned that maybe the "form" of the show overshines the pieces in the show and I don't think that should be the case... I mean if the form of the show is too important for it to work, it tends to put the pieces "in a dirty dancing corner", and no show should put the pieces in a corner! Do you understand what I am trying to say? What are everyone's opinion about this?

/Jorun

Hi!

This is Susanne here for the first time and I'm sorry for showing myself this late! I've just had so many things to do but now I can finaly see the light, yes.
So I'm in Joruns class at Malmö Art Academy and most of the time I do stuff that includes photography but right I'm into drawing.

I'm looking forward to discussions and Melanie, I found it interesting what you wrote about the exhibition, I'll give it some thought and then get back

Also, showing just something that we are working on is probably a good idea but for now you can see previous works of mine here:

www.susannesvantesson.com

Bye for now!

/Sus

dots and numbers

you're right, there would have to be some kind of common denominator,

or on the other side a certain courage and trust in the people we work

and discuss with to let things happen(again there's my thought of

sharing here what we're working on, so we would, from the beginning

on, see tendencies, paths).

what i forgot to tell: most of the artists had several pieces in the

show, spread over the room.

i liked it a lot, to walk around and - suddenly see something that

seemed familiar, like this you went back in your memory to the things

you saw before and connected them. like those pictures where you

connect numbered dots and you wait till in the end you see the whole

picture, before they were just dots and numbers.

maybe an exhibition could work like those drawings?

another way to still have the possibility to give things an order,

that every artist could still have his very own space, would be to

have a publication for the show.

some kind of map, texts, drawings, i can imagine lots of different

possibilities.

so, to have on one side artistic "chaos" and on the other side (could

also be something in the show itself, on a wall, on the floor,

whatever) a system where you can find order, clear structures, names,

titels, ...

should i invite some people as well? at the moment it seems a bit 

difficult to me, cause i don't know who are all the people involved so 

far, so please, show yourself! :)

greetings from the big city

*m

about what Melanie wrote...

Thank you Melanie for writing about that show. I really think it sounds interesting to blur out the borders between the different pieces in the show and make all viewers make their own story by combining the works according to their own agenda. But one problem with that is maybe that you, as an artist in the show, become very dependent of the other artists and their point of view. I don't mean that that would be wrong, but what if you simply can't stand for the other artists work in that sense that you would like your own work to be involved that closely to it?

What I am trying to say is simply: I myself really like that idea of taking away the direct link between the artist and the piece in a group show, but... What does that lead to in the end? Should we consider the outcome of this or is it just something we should try and work with for our show? What does everyone think of; for example not having titles and the artist's name directly placed by the piece made for this show? How can we instead give that information to the viewers?

here we go:

sorry, i was busy building big piles of leaves and burying fake people underneath them lately... so that's why i haven't written anything so far :) here you can see what came out (it is called "winter is arriving"

(which is actually true in berlin, today i saw the first snowflakes in front of my window - yippiiieee!)

but now to my thoughts concerning our project. 

i've been to many openings and shows in berlin and the concepts and settings are most of the time the same old ones. but i've been to one show at "temporäre kunsthalle" which really impressed me. it was called "scorpio's garden" and was a group show where all pieces were shown in one big room, a lot of installational pieces but also video, paintings and photographs, in a way that it was hard to find out what belonged togehter and what didn't, and who the authors are. at the entrance you were given an abstract map with all details of the pieces but it was quite cryptic and hard to read. so mainly the viewer himself started to find his own way in that garden and making his own story out of the offered pieces,like  picking flowers strolling through a garden and in the end each one has got his own different bouquet in his hands. 

i like it a lot, when art doesn't take itself too serious. and i'm very interested in authorship that looses its shape. boarders without clear lines.letting things happen without trying to control them.

an idea for this blog: i'd really like all of us to show what they're working on, even if it's just small things i think it can be inspiring and maybe give us pictures to visualize our thoughts .those could be random pictures found in the internet, as well as own stuff. so we would have a visual level to accompany our discussion.what do you think?

i'm looking forward to discuss!

*m

to melanie

Great to see you here on the blog. Would you please write what you wrote to me in the email about that show that you saw in the temporäre kusthalle in Berlin, I think it could be interesting for everyone to read!

/Jorun