Open Lecture Series- Stuart Whipps

Stuart Whipps

Aspect Lecture #4

Fiction

Here are my highly anticipated lecture notes on 'Fiction' by James Fisher.

note: Thinking about changing the space between the viewer and figures in the work just really reminded me of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you can watch the opening monologue here and I'd highly recommend it even if you've already seen it before:

Other than that...the most important things I took from the lecture were;

• Thinking about your relationship with the material and thinking about the making process; is it autobiographical?
• Thinking about news way to tell stories, through photography and film.
• How do you know when a story is over? How do you know when something's finished?

Aspect Lecture #2 Surface

/The outer covering of an object./

The texture of a work can be important, with seductive surfaces drawing us in, but can also be repulsive. Texture is very important to me in my own work, as I feel it creates an atmosphere and gives the work more substance. 

This lecture also focused on 'beyond the surface' and how Agnes Martin used surface to portray a state of mind. "Anything can be painted without representation, I never painted a grid with squares..." I feel that the surfaces she uses in her work creates a mental connection, almost meditative, between the viewer and the work. An intensity only seen when in front of the painting.

Agnes Martin, Untitled #3, 1974

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Aspect Lecture #1 Space

Art is dangerous.


Here are some notes I took from the first Aspect Lecture on 'space' by Richard Allen.

In summary the things I took from the lecture were ideas on how proximity and the intention of the work affect the relationship between the art and the viewer- I think it is important to make whoever's looking at the work think about what they are seeing.

I was also interested by Janet Cardiff's 'Opera for a Small Room' (2005) and want to look further into how installations can be linked with sound and wallpaper. 

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