Tuesday 27 July 2010

Under The Floor



One of the ideas we explored was 'The Under The Floor show', but it has not yet been fully developed. The idea initially was to use only the space under the floor in which to exhibit, as The exhibition space at Asylum Studios has a suspended floor over the top of an older existing floor; it is quite unique. But could be explored elsewhere to challenge audience expectations to art exhibition. I worked with Emma on a few ideas and these are my results. We worked in the Asylum studio exhibition space for the day and worked with the grid of the floor tiles, and also opened up the floor to interact with the space underneath as well as above. The materials are golf tees and other pieces from a similar source. I exploited the grid, the positive and negative of the top and underneath, formed 'uncanny' through selection processes, and configured the containing box and discs into a potentially animate form.

Steve











More contradictory stuff


Here is some more of the work produced over the past year for the Play project. We had been working on the theme of 'Upside down' and 'Contradiction' for some time and found ways to create new works that take on this strategy. We thought of it more as a strategy to produce work than a theme in the strictest sense, as there was a restriction or point of compliance that allowed any form, object, subject to be explored but not to define it or limit the work. Initial pieces were perhaps fairly straight forward but the term 'contradiction' is very open and enables a conceptual approach to emerge, both in terms of function and implication and not just in terms of appearance. Such strategies are very much in line with our creative approaches and will become more and more I think a part of my practice.
Steve

These are some of the pieces that I created: