Research blog Fabrication, imagination and memory

Research blog entry regarding:  Fabrication, imagination and memory

 












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fab·ri·ca·tion

–noun

the act or process of fabricating;  manufacture.

something fabricated,  especially an untruthful statement: His account of the robbery is a complete fabrication.

fab·ri·cate

–verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.

to make by assembling parts or sections.

to devise or invent (a legend, lie, etc.).

to fake; forge (a document, Signature, etc.).

 

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I think it is inportant to take another look at the Zoe Beloff Artist Lecture 



I thought Beloffs lecture was fantastic. She was the best story teller we have had. Her presentation technique was like no other. 


- What was the most interesting quote of the lecture and why?
I thought it was very interesting that she mentioned in the beginning of her lecture that "everything is a reinvention of cinema" as it would seem she relates everything back to cinema, it is hard to decipher if she ment in her work or in general. 

- Using three words, define the core of the artist's practice and artwork.
unconscious, fantastical, foggy
she deals a lot with the thought of the unconscious thought
I found even her more structured and research based works to be fantastic.  
and i would say foggy rather than deceptive but her work is very unclear 

- What is the most interesting thing you learned about the artist that you did not know before?
Considering her website and beginning of her lecture was very vague. I learned everything I know about her from her lecture. I thought she was a fabulous speaker and story teller.  Her work is so interesting and the way she presents it as her work or someone else's work weather she created it or not is wonderful. I found her to be very interesting, i strive to have an imagination like hers.

- What image or artwork do you find the most compelling and powerful after hearing the artist describe it?
Being originally very confused about what her work was about I thought her ability to startle research in the  real world and invented worlds to be fascinating and admirable. I am still slightly unclear as to how much was made up  which could cause an illegitimacy in her work that is based in reality. I found the work about Albert Grass to be very interesting and confusing.

- Do you have any new questions in regards to the artist?
I am going to look up everything she mentioned to see what is real and what is fictitious. 

Question 1:

It seems that your work deals with personal thought and it is said that you focus on the unconscious. Do you impose your opinion in your work or have your subjects create their own?

this question doesn't even make sense now that i have heard her lecture. like i said before her website directed me in a very different angle to her work.

Question 2: 

Your work branches into a variety of media, what benefits do you feel video has that still can not achieve? 

I really enjoyed her answer and was glad to hear it. Beloff said the stories and ideas shape the medium she uses to create. In the work that she created where she made a stage and projected a 3D image onto the stages was described as a simulation of a illusion emphasized by the way it was filmed and presented. 

 

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Her use of manipulation and directing behind the scenes is important to notice as my current work, and some past works have similar elements. 

This is the first time I had been truly exposed to lies within art. They had tricked me into thinking something that wasn't true. I was upset, how could they. But this was not the first time, and I’m sure not the last. Art is a manipulation its just how far an artist is willing to take it, and how much they are willing to tell you about it. 

The ideas of fabrication and truth in art, particularly the work I am creating now has strong emphasis on real, unreal, false reality, and self manipulated reality. The viewer is never or rarely welcomed into the idea of truth in this work, because what is to say our memory is accurate, or the individual being photographed was truthfully recalling the memory. There are so many factors that could skew truth, I want to leave the viewer puzzled about their own truth in memory recall. As well as encounter with the visual documentation of the collaboration I will be representing.