29/12/11

23/12/11

Roots
Torn
(scared)

HUNT
I hunt

(oh god)

23/12/11 (2)

Studio update 12/12/11 (belated)

Continuing to discuss place. Remembering past places and considering and predicting future places. Present places. Where am I?

14/12/11

I took my ladies to the sea
We had just pressed the shells into our bones
And we saw the queen in the sky
Gently revealing the treasures of her crowns
We took off all of our armour
Every last single drop of gold
And we banished the land
Lifted our bodies right up into the cold
Wilderness, in the darkest light
I called out to my brothers
‘Come join me in flight’
And the tears they did roll
From the salty sea, the rainy sky,
And the wide eyes the wide eyes
My heart it did swell
As the grandest of stars burst out names in the skies
I could see but a thousand
Of families and friends I had thought been long gone
And the thunder claps hands as I embrace them
And we howled out to every single last one

-Bat For Lashes; Wilderness

Hyper-reality

What is hyper-reality?

Art dictionaries say hyper-realism, superrealism, photorealism. Too good to be true. Truer than life. "High-fidelity realism", "Minute and impersonal exactitude".

Simulation of reality, something 'too real', so it no longer is reality/ Ideal? Ideal form?

(Wiki):
"Hyperreality is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies. Hyperreality is a way of characterising what our consciousness defines as 'real' in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter an original event of experience."

Jean Baudrillard
Albert Borgmann
Daniel Boorstin
Umberto Eco

"The simulation of something which never really existed"
-Jean Baudrillard

"The authentic fake"
-Umberto Eco

"The virtual irreality"
-Pater Sparrow

-Reality
-Simulation
-Copy
-Consciousness
-'Real', defining what is 'real'.


Simulacrum
"A term from Greek Platonic philosophy that meant a copy of a copy of an ideal form. In postmodernist thought, particularly through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Jean Baudrillard, the term has been revived in the context of arguments about the relationship between an original work of art and its replication. For Baudrillard the simulacrumm takes precedence over the origical, with the effect that the original is no longer relevant."

-(Wilson, S. Lack, J. (2008) The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms. London: Tate Publishing)

How does hyperreality relate to my practice?

Discussing memory, places from memory in an idealistic way.
Recreating something from memory...
Romanticizing?? Making something as real that is too perfect.... Complete... to be real.
Lying. Romanticizing.
Exploring my mind... place through my mind.
Presenting something as truth that is takes from memory, or souvenirs...

Lies, makebelieve
Replaces truth.

The Big Walk