Meeting with Sebastian after the New Year led to a discussion with Tom, Richard and Michael about our individual artefacts which we had produced and the similarities and differences in them, as well as the successes and failures of each.
After this, we summarised our joint ventures into a few bullet points:
Experiential qualities
Transformation
Restoration
Fabrication (especially in 'wrong' materials)
Scale of influence
Interactivity
This formed the 'armitage' of ideas, of which the interstitial spaces between would become the new points of interest.
Below is a diagram of the joint artefact which we intend to build to summarise and synthesise our ideas.
My own contribution to the artefact can be summarised by my own research into other artists and artworks which reference and address the 'hard place' (the tangible, evocative materials which make up our work) as well as further research into material symbolism, particularly through referencing Mirosław Bałka's Soap Corridoor (all below).
I aim to emulate the use of materials such as soap and ash which can be found in Bałka's works, to represent the dirt and cleanliness of the religious activities - becoming physically and spiritually clean through ritualistic processes as well as using joints and materials in 'precious' ways to elevate the artefact to such a spiritual level.
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