Cloudy Brow, Tacita Dean

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Spray Chalk, gouache and charcoal pencil on slate

A sense of impermanence...

Studio Work Wk. Beginning 23.01.2017

 Initial Photographs

Drawings

Relief / Mono Prints

Journal: ...a day; time; a day's travel or work...

St Austell to London

Journey 1: Euston to Worcester Foregate St. 11.01.17

Red dots delineating a line of traffic parallel to the tracks.
Darkness.
Shimmering artificial white horizon line. Dotted and discontinuous. 
Parallel diagonal lines of light, drawing into a dimly lit platform: coventry.
Approaching dawn.
Warm orange lamp lights.
Harsh strip lights, against a lightening blue background.

Journey 2: Worcester Foregate St to London Euston 11/01/2017

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Nederland/Belgie

Audio Visual Experiments

Plans and diagrams/ wall drawing

The Dome - potential as a space for both visual and audio

 
Projecting sound drawing/lithographic marks onto architectural plan/ dome drawing

 

Introducing the 'filter'
experiments with coloured acetate

Thinking about idea that the sound surrounding us on a daily basis is mechanical/ electronic/ manmade (bound to Lefebvre's notion of SOCIAL SPACE) what status does this give to physical space ie. nature?
Juxtaposing the two, thinking about they interact - the blurring of boundaries between fixed categories such as natural/urban, constructed/organic, photographic/autographic, audio/visual...

Documents of contemporary art: Sound

Introduction//Sound in Art

Caleb Kelly

Aiding this neglect is the view that sound is difficult to represent : one cannot look at sound in a book...
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Thinking about perception as discussed in invisibilia- our peripheral vision. As we travel our focus is on the destination.  We don't focus in any one element but we experience a multitude of sensual encounters : visual and sound in particular,  situated in relation to the body. 

As bull and back have noted, 'the experience of everyday life is increasingly mediated by a multitude of mechanically reproduced sounds...in parallel to this, cities are noisier than they ever were in the past.' Given this increased awareness,  how are we to re-listen to the sound world around us, and how do we situate our bodies and our everyday through these discourses?
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Audio Visual

The use of both sight and sound.