40 Hours
The projects are based on time, time is the object in the project, it is about how we use it and combine it with our project. Personally I see how big the range is, as when time could be presented in many formats, like from alive, to death, icebergs disappear, food routing, but to make a limited project I would like to explore with people and actions and to see how much can I do in the certain hours.
My project
Personally I see time as an object that has a deep connection with human, as time passes, people could grow, we could change appearance, we will have different thoughts and doing different things, we change our likes and dislikes. Based on this thought I decided to work with time myself, instead of observing the object's dissapearing, weather changing, or food corrupting I want to take one of the day out to not being myself but someone else, I would like to experience how does it feel to live in a different person, when myself has changed how I usually works and seeing the world.
Target Info
Youqi XU
2000/09/12
Male (Single)
Kingston University (Architecture design)- Monday Wednesday Thursday and Friday, Hate school tutorials.
Hobbies: Singing, guitar, cooking, computer games.
Fashion style: Streetwear, casual (We11done, Rick Owens, Supreme)
Taste of food: Spicy, no veg other than potato, Pork, Fried chicken
Lifestyle: Wakeup around 10:00, Sleep around 1:00(am), would go to toilet before sleep, would only wear undies when sleep, would open the windows when sleep.
Outcome
For the representation of the outcome, I did struggle a lot. Based on the way of recording the outcome, it wasn't filmed in an interesting angle or a professional shooting way, it looks like a vlog and I felt it too boring if presenting it in a normal vlog way. So I decide to make it as an animation book and separate it into 7 different parts according to the time slot we planned in the night before. So the first step is to make the videos into continuous screenshots.
Animationbook
REASERCH
Eadweard Muybridge
The idea of stop motion or animation book can also be interesting, as given an idea of 'STOPPING THE TIME', control of the time. With traditional film, what we see as a continuous moving image is actually a linear progression of still photos on a single reel that pass through a lens at a certain rate of speed and is projected onto a screen. We saw a simple form of this process earlier in the pioneering work of Eadweard Muybridge.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-sac-artappreciation/chapter/oer-1-41/
Olafur Eliasson
'Your Waste of Time'
He responses to environmental issues engage with this increasingly unpredictable world, through a sensory engagement with temporality, with other materialities and bodies.
Roderick Buchanan
Roderick Buchanan's soda stream is another example of using time as the subject as the creation of the artwork. Beck's have commemorated their sponsorship of contemporary art by commissioning artists to design limited edition labels for their bottles, and early in the 21st century, a number of these designs were re-used as decoration for limited edition beer glasses. These interesting objects reflect the sophistication of branding in the late 20th / early 21st century.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/buchanan-sodastream-t07599
Maurizio Cattelan
The artist has fixed a banana on a wall and displayed the work he named "Comedian" at the Art Basel Miami gallery in Florida. The artwork sold three copies on Friday for at least $120,000 each. When seeing the piece as a piece that related to the time, I wonder what will it be looked like after a time period. (even though it has already be eaten)
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/12/8985156/duct-tape-banana-art-basel-miami
Echo Morgan (Xie Rong)
A Chengdu-born, London-based, multi-disciplinary artist whose work is underpinned by a dark family story. She works with stereotypes of ‘Chineseness’ and femininity in order to subvert them.
http://www.hk-aga.org/event/home-solo-exhibition-by-xie-rong-echo-morgan/
Lygia Pape
Lygia pape's work reminds me of the fluid of time, as the time could be presented in a different and natural way, by involving body into the work might be something that I would like to explore furthermore. She combined geometric abstraction with notions of body, time, and space in unique ways that radically transformed the nature of the art object in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Sylvia Palacios Whiteman
Palacios Whitman, formerly a dancer in Trisha Brown’s company, actively showed her own works of live art—described at the time as falling somewhere among dance, happenings, and theater—in New York from the mid-1970s into the early 1980s.
https://whitney.org/Events/JaredBarkAndSylviaPalaciosWhitman
Xu Zhen
Xu Zhen is a Chinese artist who has made a human sculpture in a performative way, the work is performance art, titled “In Just a Blink of an Eye.” As it forces viewers to question the laws of physics, and the fluidity of time and the fragility of the human condition.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-08-07/moca-xu-zhen-performance-art
Francis Alÿs
One of Francis's famous works is 'Sometimes making something to nothing', in this work he kept pushing a big slice of ice for up to 9 hours and let it slightly melt so it will disappear gradually. Personally I'm very interested in how he was being a part of his artwork, the participation of himself has made the work more personal and meaningful.
https://francisalys.com/sometimes-making-something-leads-to-nothing/
MAARTEN BAAS
Maarten does some performance art in which he physically moves together with the time, his work was very simple, he creates manual clocks that are erased and redrawn on the stroke of each minute. The way to document it is by film and he did investigate different ways of making it, as changing the type of clocks. Baas places himself within the structure of the time-telling devices, functioning as the works’ human mechanism. Other pieces from his Real Time series use the assistance of another performer to create 12-hour films, such as a line of perpetually swept trash doubling as a clock arm.