A story from 'here'...do you have one?

(walking along the 'Pineapple Track' on Sunday afternoon...)

A story: High above the small settlement of Dunedin by the sea the people cut down the forest and planted fence posts instead. Because there was no fruit left to eat from the trees they ate pineapples from cans and put the cans on top of the posts along the way... that is why the path is called 'Pineapple Track', although now there are no pineapple cans nor posts...

Has anyone got a picture of a pineapple/can on a post... and maybe another story...?

http://www.1000journals.com/

Constant wave action...Dunedin, 5/12/10

With the image up top I combined and manipulated the previous image of Michael's horse in the night sky (post 1/12/10) and the above wave photo taken of Boulder beach using Photoshop.

Here is some literature by Claire Colebro0k on Deleuze's ideas of the subject as plane of experience, not author:
"Transcendental empiricism frees thought of any ultimate metaphysical foundation by insisting that far from being some actual ground, life is a virtual multiplicity, not of things and agents but contemplations and contractions, events and responses. It is not that there are persons or beings who then contemplate the world; there are contemplations that are passive and impersonal. These contemplations create distinct human bodies and organisms.
This means that there is not a world (actual) that is then represented in images (virtual) by the privileged mind of man (the subject). Life is just this actual-virtual interaction of imaging: each flow of life becomes other in response to what it is not. The anticipation goes beyond what is actual, but also produces a new actual. The image is neither actual nor virtual but the interval that brings actuality out of the virtual..."
She concludes, "There are experiences; these are connected to form images of bodies; the body that contemplates those connections mistakenly sees itself as the author or ground of those connections. This is the illusion of the transcendent subject, the subject as plane within which experience takes place."
(Claire Colebrook, Gilles Deleuze, London:Routledge, pp 87-88)

The Years End

As we fast approach the end of 2010 I must ask where these imaginings are going? In which direction are we all traveling. I can see a wonderful collection of responses and proposals in photograph, a sense of personal imaginings in the melee of supposed internationalization and collaboration.

The collaborations have been desperate, and rightly so as we are all essentially working from personal motivations and positions.

The beginning basis for these connections was to consider the making of the artwork and the role that authorship plays when engaging with histories (personal and shared), images (analogue and digital, real and constructed), Synthetics and naturals, sensation and concept.

Have we begun to engage in these things? or has the project organically shifted? Is the natural course still working or do the parameters need to be 'tightened' wit a 'kind' of outcome envisaged?

Just some thoughts.

Ideas?

Dunedin 1/12/10

Hands and Horses

collaborative project

Today I attended a presentation by Simon McIntyre where he talked about a collaborative series of 4 site specific exhibitions run over 3 years by Monique Redmond (AUT) and himself, called 'Mapped'. It is an interesting case of sculpture, photography and painting interacting. On one occasion they had a series of A4 photographs and paintings connected to them, interspersed, running all around a room. Within they placed objects.

Some sites about Simon McIntyre and Monique Redmond

www.index.org.nz/mapped.html
http://www.mop.org.au/archive/070405.html
http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/art-design/learning-environment/st-paul-street-gallery/exhibition-2007/november/legend