Draft of Voice over for split screen, Poem by Lisa Robertson, Paintings and animation by Amy Sillman. The piece is an animated split screen video to which a poem has been set. I guess that the poem was the starting point for the work. The poem consists of a number of repeating sentences which are then linked to the changing images. To start with this was easy to follow but I found I got a little lost over the six plus minutes. However I didn’t find that this distracted as I was making continual links between the imagery and the dialogue. I found that the meaning of the repeated sentences changed over the duration of the piece. I guess that this was the intention. To my mind the words and images complemented each other and I believe it would be hard to watch the video without the dialogue. I don’t feel that it would make any sense. The poem without the imagery would still have meaning although the pictures would have to be made by the listener.
Jutta Koether – Seasons and sacraments, the video consisted of a talk by Jutta through her exhibition and the links and meaning of the works displayed within it. The exhibition, consisting of two rooms, is inspired by Nicolas Poussin. The first room is in response to his paintings ‘The Four Seasons’ and second room ‘The seven sacraments’. The talk consists of the challenge that the viewer is confronted with trying to make connections and find their way through the exhibition. There is a dialogue throughout the work. Without the back story or the knowledge of the Poussin paintings I feel it would be difficult to make sense of the work. My assumption is that there was information available to the visitors, this was not apparent from the video.
The reading point Link 31 consisted of a long text by James Elkins. the main thrust of the piece was the depiction or the use of time within art. I found it informative and through. There were plenty of interesting point that I need to reflect upon further.
Mark Taylor 'Studio Practice' 