Jeff Koons - ideas of display

Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Two Dr J Silver Series, Spalding NBA Tip-Off) 1985Mixed mediaunconfirmed: 1536 x 1238 x 336 mm

Documenting ideas of display, Koons vetrines are highly manufactured products in there own right.

pass the parcel- childrens party game

Pass the parcel is a popular British children's party game in which a parcel is passed from person to person around a circle, somewhat similar in its logistics to musical chairs.
In preparation for the game, a prize (or "gift") is wrapped in a large number of layers of wrapping paper. Usually, each layer is of a different design so they can be easily distinguished. Smaller prizes or mottos may be placed between some or all other layers of wrapping.

proposed idea: video peice of me playing pass the parcel on my own. Passing the parcel on and off camera and each time the music stops on me, forcing me to unwrap the parcel.
sense of:
Loneliness
self
bitterness
meloncoly
sadness

Track listing for childrens party :
1.
Yankee Doodle - Kids' Party Time
2.
Pop Goes the Weasel - Kids' Party Time
3.
When the Saints Go Marching In - Kids' Party Time
4.
Mary Mary Quite Contrary - Kids' Party Time
5.
Once I Caught a Fish Alive - Kids' Party Time
6.
Old King Cole - Kids' Party Time
7.
Bear Went Over the Mountain, The - Kids' Party Time
8.
Polly Put the Kettle On - Kids' Party Time
9.
Michael Finnegan - Kids' Party Time
10.
Two Little Dicky Birds - Kids' Party Time
11.
One Grey Elephant Balancing - Kids' Party Time
12.
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Kids' Party Time
13.
Frere Jacques - Kids' Party Time
14.
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone - Kids' Party Time
15.
Grandfather's Clock - Kids' Party Time

Faye Clarridge - Morris dancers

ref: http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pid=277
Taken from the PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY
These images remind me of the images i produced of myself in the party gear.

Faye Claridge’s work explores the human desire for immortality and the acts of re-creation and preservation undertaken to stave off the passage of time.
Only A Stranger Can Bring Good Luck, Only A Known Man Can Hang depicts Morris dancers from Bedfordshire with their traditional dress and a ‘paradise’ painted and assembled by the photographer acting as markers of time and mortality. The photographs explore relations between living tableaux and photography and challenge photography’s capacity for authenticity by making portraits that both reveal and obscure, document and create.

Semiotics | ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood.

Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions, for example Umberto Eco proposes that every cultural phenomenon can be studied as communication. However, some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas belonging also to the natural sciences - such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics or zoosemiosis.

Happy Birthday Sarah | Tulse Hill rail station

Photograph was taken at Tulse Hill Rail station, i suppose to cause embarrasment for the birthday girl. I find this strange

Kutlug Ataman | Exhibition

EXHIBITION VISITED

Georgina Starr

The party (entertaining)

Crafts Channel | youtube

Colouring.

Happy

Joyful

Pretence

Tate etc. magazine | Bruce Nauman interview

Mary Douglas | interview

Kutlug Ataman | Thomas Dane Gallery | London

EXHIBITION VISITED

Kutlug Ataman
Opening Reception Thursday, 12 March, 6-8pm Exhibition Dates 13 March – 18 April, 2009 Thomas Dane Gallery is delighted to present fff a new ten-screen video installation by Kutlug Ataman with original music by British composer Michael Nyman. fff will be Ataman’s first major exhibition in London since Kuba (2005), his acclaimed Artangel project and his first commercial exhibition in a London gallery. fff, an abbreviation of ‘found family footage’, consists of images drawn from home movies of the 1950s and 60s . This footage was borrowed by Ataman from the archives of two British families, the Fryers and the Howards, whose fathers were pioneering researchers into the effects of flight and g-force on pilots. Ataman has appropriated this material and overlaid it with original music composed by Michael Nyman, to create 10 short films, each with its own individual score.

John Wood and Paul Harrison | Ikon Gallery | some words, some more words

EXHIBITION VISITED

Pencil Eraser 2008

Visited the exhibition in May 2009.

Purchased material from the show, including signed prints.

martin parr

SPAIN.Majorca 2003

Damien Hirst: Clear specimen boxes

Damien Hirst with his Away from the Flock, 1994© Damien Hirst (PA News)

new camera

Quick and Crafty | youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2WPEQPdsKQ

Nuclear family | research

The term nuclear family is used to distinguish a family group consisting of most commonly, a father and mother and their children, from what is known as an extended family. Nuclear families can be any size, as long as the family can support itself and there are only two parents and children, or the family would be known as an extended family.

New work to follow.

I am currently working on a number of projects based on ideology and more specifically, ideology in a domestic environment (home). Women in the home interest me.

If you have any info you would like to contribute email me : Russellsays@gmail.com

Gillian Wearing | 60 minute silence

Paul Harrison and John Wood | TATE

In 2007 I had the pleasure of meeting these two men.John and Paul are two men who inspired me to experiment with video as an art medium.
Bristol-based duo Paul Harrison and John Wood could be described as an art-world equivalent to Laurel and Hardy. Their videos, showing their dead-pan antics as they dangle precariously from a ladder, slide on office chairs around the back of a moving van, and submit themselves to a drenching from dozens of watering cans, are both hilarious and thought provoking.

Alex Bagg | Whitney Museum New York

Installation view

Photograph: Sheldan C. Collins, Courtesy Of The Artist And The Whitney Museum Of American Art

Thanks to YouTube and reality programming, just about anyone, it seems, can appear on television. But back when three broadcast networks ruled the medium, getting on TV was a really big deal for ordinary folks. What opportunities existed were limited to daytime shows or courtesy of your hometown station: by being a game show contestant, for instance, or if you happened to run into your local news crew covering a fire—then you could always jump into the shot and wave like a idiot. For the most part, however, the small screen was as much a barrier to a privileged domain as it was a window.