Aldo Lanzini makes really interesting masks out of textiles, thinking about taking on board his ideas when constructing my own textile mask

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWdkHOMXphg

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, The Walk to Dover, 2005

At the time she was known as Lali Chetwynd

https://vimeo.com/98127367 video piece documenting the walk

http://www.studiovoltaire.org/exhibitions/archive/lali-chetwynd/ info about the walk

A 7 day expedition from London to Dover in full costume, emulating the narrative of David Copperfield. The group attempts to live off the land and draws parallels between class structure and debt in Victorian England with today’s “credit card culture”

Think about: act of walking as pilgrimage – the manner of documentation (edited photos & footage accompanied by narrative, sound and voiceover) – use of costume to build character – ritual/repeated aspects like gathering food

Goat Festival on the Greek island Skyros, descended from celebrations of Dionysus. People dress in furry costumes with bells and dance, there’s also a lot of cross-dressing in honour of the god Dionysus/Bacchus, whose gender was fluid

—> ritual, procession, ceremony, performance, masks

Image source: https://www.bordersofadventure.com/skyros-island-greece-mischief-and-masquerade-of-carnival/

Info: https://inews.co.uk/culture/bacchus-uncovered-ancient-god-of-ecstasy-bbc4-tv-review-gender-fluidity-transgender-dionysus/

Thread Stories, crochet masks from her Instagram, which she uses as an artist’s sketchbook

https://www.instagram.com/threadstories/

Thread Stories (real name unknown) – makes masks out of crochet, am considering using her work as a inspiration for my mask 2.0

Could i crochet? plus i want to incorporate fleshy structure, thinking about using tights to create the effect

https://vimeo.com/251136805

(Source: https://vimeo.com/)

Mark Dion:

Top Left: The Bureau of Remote Wildlife Surveillance, 2006
Top Right: Ichthyosaurus, 2003
Middle 2: Mandrillus Sphinx, 2012, (detail shot on right)
Penultimate: Den, 2012
Bottom 2: Society of Amateur Ornithologists, 2010 (exterior and interior)

“Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. … Appropriating archaeological, field ecology and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences.“

source:

http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/mark-dion/series-sculpture-and-installation

http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/mark-dion/series-outdoor-public-projects

——> creation of narrative worlds – fantastical yet relevant – construction of imagined space – the Anthropocene

Some photos of Holly O’Meehan’s exhibition Elusive Tactility at Paper Mountain in Perth AU – went to the opening night during the Christmas break

Source: http://hollyomeehan.com.au/Elusive-Tactility

—-> Construction of shape and form – blending of materials – techniques used to create them – the ‘useless’ nature of seemingly useful things (e.g. cups that can’t hold anything)

Natalie Jeremijenko’s TED Talk about her Environmental Health Clinic and ecological solutions to widespread health problems

Also a link to info on her ‘Mussel Choir’ project:

http://www.creative-states.org/articles/2017/1/natalie-jeremijenko-mussel-choir

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Mary Mattingly

Videos about her work WetLand, 2014 and ongoing (cannot be shared via Tumblr)

http://www.marymattingly.com/html/MATTINGLYWetland.html

A Ruin in Reverse, 2013 —-> artefact, both buried and found, forgotten and remembered

Heading West, 2011, part of her series Wearable and Portable Architecture, 2011-2012 —-> designed to be worn in all environments: thinking about the changing world and the necessity of adaption for survival

source: http://www.marymattingly.com/html/MATTINGLYWork.html

Pina Yoldas, An Ecosystem of Excess, 2014 —> creates a ‘posthuman ecosystem’ that has evolved to live off of plastic pollution, specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – inspired by the ‘primordial soup theory’ (now literally the plastic soup)

Top: installation view at the Transmediale festival

Left: Eggs that acquired hues of Pantone colored plastic

Right: Pacific Balloon Turtle

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