I went and had my meeting with Tom this Tuesday. Just to review I’m trying to form a project in which I follow individuals home, creating a neo biographies on individuals in my age group because I find our current relationship with home is the most complex as we push forward to create our own space… our own home while having some, willing or not, connection with home. The end result would an installation combining film, photos, and material unknown. Naturally, Tom stated that my scope was huge, which it is. I need to tighten my ideas down because there is no clarity yet which is unusual for me because most of the time I have a clear image and then don’t move from it. I started a web writing down the different elements, and trying to find what I really want, and what could just be distracting or unneeded. It is in progress I’ll scan it later.
In response to my early ideas about my installation, Tom directed me toward two artists, Lisa Sigal and Andrea Zittel. Zittel's work interested me in reference to viewer interaction. Most of her works are installation environments in which the viewer can linger, interact, or at the least are completely surrounded by. There are a few, “Cool Chambers”, and “Prototype for A to Z Bed”, that are view from the outside and then can be entered. This process for the viewer is closer to what I want my viewer’s to experience viewing from the outside and then having a different experience on the inside. I am trying to get “Critical Space” in order to read more on her. Sigal’s use of materials and temporary installation caught my eye. The structural elements suggest shelters, or homes. I find that I do not have to be so literal with my installation to be reminiscent of a home. Her varied materials also opened up my eyes to other material options for my own installation. In “Tent Painting” the use of wallpaper and newspaper is one material direction I am pondering. The patchwork of paper has been a process I am familiar with and have had success with in AFO. The structure would be fragile and temporary which are both a positive and a negative. My photographs could be printed onto the surface (Liquid Light?) or pinned to the surface and therefore could be used multiple times. In “Architectural Shadows” and “Limits Returning”, Sigal uses actual pieces of homes, or building materials. In particular she used cabinet doors to construct a simple lean to in “Limits Returning”. I am very interested in utilizing pieces of home to create a structure if I am able to find the means.
Is there any artist you guys know about that could inform me in a way from working with the concept of home to my installation?
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