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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I go where the Party takes me exhibition Opening
Exhibition Opening. It was rather nice tbh,
Image 1: Some of Rabs work and fun ppl that turned up
Image 2: One of 3 of my pieces. Untitled
Image 3: My family that came with me (Lauren, Alan, Jason, Noeline and Christopher)
Image 4: The other 2 pieces of my work. both are called Untitled.
Friday, October 9, 2009
A Video from Jaime Trillas :D
A Video from my friend Jaime Trillas
He was at work and thought he'd entertain me while i write my essay's
:D
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Patillo stuffs.
Mind you im not really fussed, tho i have heard word that people that have gotten into bigger exhibtions have not been selected. a lil chaos i guess?
hmm Id like to hear what the opinions are of those that didnt get in
I really like the idea of the Salon deRefuse :D Reminds me of the old school exhibitions that used to happen back in the old school days of exhibiting.
Bloody Office People and their wanting to make something lame with Sculpting Chaos. COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW!
and the end of the day, its good that everyone entered, coz we were to lazy to enter, maybe its coz the fear of making something shit. Funny coz you think that 7500 dollars would motivated you to doing something for it.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Been Johnson
Been
i like this photo
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_o6LfH
8:29pmCamillia
lol oh thanks lol
are you looking at my blog?
8:30pmBeen
casually :)
8:33pmCamillia
lol
:v
8:41pmBeen
whats up with her expression?
8:52pmCamillia
lol
oh sorry
im not too sure
8:53pmBeen
maybe a couple of dogs doing what a couple of dogs often do when crowds gather...
9:15pmCamillia
lol
oh did you see my recent post?
9:16pmBeen
just reading now
i enjoy the rate of updates
keep it up!
9:17pmCamillia
ima be afk for an hour k
i need to write some other things on the blog
9:18pmBeen
afk?
9:18pmCamillia
away from keyboard
9:18pmBeen
ahhhhhhh
-understsnds-
10:55pmCamillia
yup
sorry
it was more than an hour
10:55pmBeen
i should say so!
10:55pmCamillia
lol
10:55pmBeen
cripes!
10:55pmCamillia
cripes i want crapes
10:55pmBeen
people are starting to get restless
quick get on stage
start your act!
10:57pmCamilliahmm
im so happy that Fringe is on
10:57pmBeen
yes
its a good show!
10:59pmCamillia
yup
11:00pmCamillia
so did you read the update?
any opinions?
any corrections?
something that didnt make sense?
11:01pmBeen
-clicks refresh-
11:01pmCamillia
lol
brb gota pee
then i will be all ears
11:06pmCamillia
okay im back
11:07pmBeen
how is showing something art?
11:07pmCamillia
what are you referring to?
please quote the section
11:07pmBeen
sorry it was just a thought i had about her work
she depicts/shows but what extra is there beyound a representation of something?
why is it art and not documentation/journalism/illust
11:09pmCamillia
Ben that is a good question.
Im not sure how to justify what makes it art.
Just when i was looking, for me there was a real sense of connection
i was able to connect to the photographs therefore the connection between the artist and her lens had a relationship with me personally.
sometimes when i look at her work i think its not for everyone.
when i first looked at her work i saw snapshots
and thought to myself any one could have done that
I guess her motivations and the output makes it what it is
Im going to sound rather contradicting but in so many ways I see it as documenting
Been
i do like what you have written
try and expand on why you like the portraits
reflection is an important element in art practice
11:13pmCamillia
its hard to explain about why i like portraits
11:14pmBeen
then theres something valuable in that
11:14pmCamillia
O.o explain?
11:15pmBeen
it moves you and what moves you will move other people and if you can find the material qualitys of the art that moves you you become better at make'ng art that moves people
which is the whole point
i think
11:17pmCamillia
hmm.
that makes sense
Monday, October 5, 2009
My talk notes from yesterday.
Edith Amituanai
- 1st generation NZ Born Samoan
- Graduated from Unitech with a Bachelor of Design 2005
- Exhibitions incl. Dateline: Contemporary Art from the Pacific
Le Folauga
Offside - Announced the inaugural winner of the Marti Friedlander Photography Award 2007
- Shortlisted for Walters Prize 2008
I went to the Wallace Trust Gallery last year in September/October to see these photographs. I sat down from being in awe of the photographs, had to sit down, the size of the photographs were breathtaking. Sat down just to look at each one for a few minutes. The more I looked at them, the more I understood the feeling. - Process of selecting and constructing images move beyond a snapshot.
- Pays close attention to the interior and exterior views that frames her subjects.
I guess the interior and exterior views can relate to the information within her photographs. the relationship between the items in the photographs to the exterior of the idea creates almost a realistic viewing of truth - Portraits are linked with their surroundings.
When referring back to the photographs of the lounges back in Aukilani, youll find alot of portraits on the walls of family members from the past to current. You'll find these in alot of typical Samoan born Parents. - Work is about relationships and space. Narratives of migration
- 2006 saw her receive a Creative NZ Grant and travel to Europe. Produced a body of work based on professional Samoan rugby players working in Italy and France.
- the 'Dejeuner' series explores temporary migration of her family living and working abroad
- Portraits of young sportsman out in the field and documents their homes back in Aukilani, detailed with mats, furnishings adorned with shelves of suite of photographs.
I feel the relationship that Edith has with her photographs are the same relationships I feel that I have with my own and with her photographs. I can relate to alot of the imagery and make the connections on a personal based experience. - Evokes a sense of memorial or longing for an absent son and the celebration of achievements.
- Photographic essays work on many levels and deals with the concept of continuity and relationship. Implicit in her images are some of the questions she asks herself about her culture when she was growing up. 'Many 1st and 2nd generation NZ born Samoans would look at her photographs and understand the questions shes asking'.
As I have said above, I can relate and understand the questions shes asking via being a 1st generation NZ born Samoan, its questions I find myself constantly asking myself. - You'll notice framed family portraits in the background are grouped together evoking a family shrine, suggesting a relationship to the past and the homeland through family memories.
Its almost like a manditory vision when stepping foot into a Samoan house hold. The family shrine quite often has photographs that can date back to the early 1900s to the current. For example, when I go to my Auntie Meaati's and Uncle Silofau Kasitone's house im greeted by a large photograph of both my Aunts and Uncles late parents, adorned in bright colored ula's (Fabric made necklaces) then to continue round I see photographs of everyone else in their family, family that live abroad and family that have passed away. Each photograph it self has a narrative via the process of the photograph to the setting. Some early photographs were taken by photographers that were in Samoa documenting what they percieved as being a dying race. It makes me giggle sometimes, i see pictures of my great great grandmother and grandfather with fake backgrounds of palmtrees.
I find that with Ediths work I enj0y the Portraits the most. I dont really know how to explain it, but I just love the feeling of being able to look at the expressions. idk. I <3 Portraits.
-Mila
Miranda Parkes talk :D
^Christchurch based artist
^Artist in Residence at Tylee Cottage > Residency>Rearch
^Student work > 3rd year submission > Floor, collecting paint > Taken off ground
^worked with installation
^Scholarship through University > Intervention on existing space
^INSPIRED > Jessica Stockholder > 3d Space
utilising everyday objects
Bringing back to everyday experience
^Mondrian>Installation> Walk into a painting
^Exhibited at Artist Run spaces
^If someone is doing something similar to your work
^Conventional stretching
^>Conventional Painting materials
- Mila
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Edith Amituanai. Photographs.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Obessions...
I sit here a look at photos of my friend Neeva whom I worked with when I was a checkout operator at the almight Write Price. I hadnt spoken to her in years, yet Im still able to keep up with what she is up to. Makes me think im almost stalking her. But i find im always drawn to looking at the photographs, looking at the color, the fashion of the time, the hotspots via the camera flash, be nicer if there was a screen or something to reduce the hotspots. Its like, you know when your sitting in a nice cumfy seat and your doing something relaxing or lying in a bathtub of warm water and you could just melt. I find i have the same facination but with photographs. lol Im currently talking to my friend Sarah Powell who is currently living in Wellington, both she and I are talking about the obsession of looking through peoples photographs. It just amazes me how curious one gets, you look at one photograph and then you want to keep looking at more. Well come to think of it, it is basicalliy a Public Exhibition in virtual space. Its like people tend to put up photographs that they think they look good in, almost like going to the movie store to hire a movie. You look at the cover and if it doesnt seem too appealing you put it back down and pick up the next one that has the brightest and best looking cover. Feels like I should be surfing for Pornography lol, does both things, images/photographs, its appealing, you can get self gratification from it, and lots of people are obsessed with it lol.
I would like to leave this post openended because im sure to come back and continue in a later post about obsessions that i have. A little bitsy, but its fine imo. Nothing like bitsyness for me I say.
This is Sarah doing the peace sign :D
- Mila
Friday, October 2, 2009
Stuff
1. World of Warcraft. The obsession with networking and making myself readily available to raiding in a makebelieve world of Dragons, Enemy's, Horde, Alliance, Battling the defeatble, when i think about it, everything in game is overcome by the networking scheme of making an alliance with a group of people/characters inorder to defeat something, someone, the opposing faction. Basically escaping the reality of real life i assume. Some people i have met, have had the obsession of moving their characters into a more elite form of motivation; gear, transportation, skill, playing endgame instances which only a handful of those could only imagine being able to play.
2. Failure. I have an obsession with failure I guess, sometimes once i have one foot in the door, that it feels as tho im almost unable to accomplish things. Everything seems fine, but seems as tho I self sabotage the possibilties of completing anything, for example, Cleaning a room. to me the room is tidy, to Jason the room is untidy, sometimes i sabotage things by leaving stuff on the chair to give the illusion that it is untidy, then on comes the words of dissappointment. sometimes the feeling of failure is reassuring that maybe someday well to be honest, i dont have a fucking clue sometimes.
3. Tearing stuff. I LOVE dismantling boxes, tearing down the seams, then to tear it in half and in half again, so that ever peice is the same size, and only can get smaller so that it is the size of my fingernail. its feels so comforting i guess, being able to reduce something so big to something yet so small. its like picking at my fingernails, im sorted sitting there picking at the skin around my fingers and biting my lower lip.
hmm and the lil girl is still finding it difficult to think of what to type.
- Mila
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Marino Mariner
Hay Guys and Girls listen and Vote for my Cuzz Marino :D Sounds awesome!! More Support the Better!!!! Peace! http://www.mtv42unheard.com/view_artist.php?id=1618
- Mila
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Damage in Samoa after Tsunami caused by earthquake.
Reuters
- WATCH the video (3:19)
A tsunami following an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean has caused some deaths in Samoa, but there is no word of how many died.
The powerful 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific off American Samoa.
Tony Manson, a TVNZ employee in Samoa, was on the beach when he felt the earthquake.
He saw waves breaking before the reef and the sea receding so ran for the hills.
Manson says it took only 30 seconds to get from beach chalets to hills before it completely devastated villages and locals are missing their family members.
He says a large fale was completely wiped out and it was a big construction made of concrete
Tvnz.co.nz spoke to local resident Ampe Roma who was in his office in Apia, Samoa when he felt the strong quake.
Roma says the quake lasted over five minutes then Apia was evacuated by police and people sent to higher ground inland.
Local reports say the wave that hit in Apia was 0.7 of a metre while the second, larger wave in Pago Pago was measured at 1.7 metres.
ONE News camerman Rico Tupai, who is in Apia, Samoa, says high waves have damaged houses and villages.
There are unconfirmed reports of people being killed or injured as the tsunami appears to have come up from the south side of the island.
Emergency evacuation procedures are in place and church bells are ringing as people head to higher ground.
The epicentre of the quake was located 190 km southwest of American Samoa. It struck at a depth of 33 km. An earthquake of this magnitude is capable of causing a tsunami.
The tsumani warning is in effect for New Zealand American Samoa, Samoa, Niue Island, the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the Tokelau atolls, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Kermadec Islands, the Baker and Howland Islands, Jarvis Island, French Polynesia and the Palmyra Islands, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said.
- Mila
I go where the party takes me.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Ben Pearce and Amelia Hitchcock
Young artists celebrate success
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:54 pmPress Release: UCOL
Young artists celebrate success
UCOL Quay School of the Arts alumnus Ben Pearce has taken first place in the inaugural National Youth Art Awards.
Ben’s work Great Grandfather Clock was constructed in walnut, rata and puriri. It presents “a window into the idea about the connections that we make and construct around un-met ancestors.”
Ben completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Whanganui UCOL in 2003, majoring in sculpture.
Third year Whanganui UCOL Bachelor of Fine Arts student Amelia Hitchcock, was the winner of the runner up prize “best 2D art work”. Amelia’s piece entitled ONE BAD APPLE was purchased by an art enthusiast from Hamilton on the opening night of the awards exhibition.
Ben and Amelia’s work was selected from 42 finalists who produced a range of paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures and installations in media ranging from paints and canvas to glass and packaging material.
The National Youth Art Awards were open to all New Zealand visual artists aged 15-27 years and was organised by the Waikato Society of the Arts, with a view to encouraging young artists to keep developing their skills.
Prizes include $2000 cash for first place and prizes worth $300 each for best 2D, best 3D and best use of repurposed materials.
It is Amelia’s second major art award success recently. Her artwork “New Zealand Pure” gained top honours in the Waiora - Arteries of Aotearoa Art.
Instigated by Intersect, a nationwide network of young leaders in sustainability, the art competition aimed to explore ideas around water and cultural diversity and was open to young artists between 18 – 25 years.
- Mila
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