Video Shakkei: Post-Performance Drawings
Kreider, Kristen and O'Leary, James. 2010. Video Shakkei: Post-Performance Drawings. [Art Object]
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Art Object |
Creators: | Kreider, Kristen and O'Leary, James |
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Abstract or Description: | ‘If I want to imagine a fictive nation, I can give it an invented name, treat it declaratively as a novelistic object … I can also – though in no way claiming to represent or to analyze reality itself (these being the major gestures of Western discourse) – isolate somewhere in the world (faraway) a certain number of features (a term employed by linguistics), and out of these features deliberately form a system. It is this system which I shall call: Japan.’ For our final exhibition we constructed an installation comprised of the video composites relating to our fourteen spatial performances, drawings, objects and text. Our aim was to create an imaginary landscape modelled on the aesthetic of the landscape gardens that we encountered and engaged with on our trip to Japan. Sugarcubes. Rocks. Bricks. Wire. Mirror. Lead. Each of these elements became signs in the system we called ‘our Japan’ -- a system based on the following features: + Eki – The art of locating through Geomancy |
Official URL: | http://www.kreider-oleary.net/works/#/video-shakke... |
Additional Information: | Exhibition of post-performance drawings at The International Centre for Drawing, RMIT (Melbourne, Australia, 2010). |
Keywords: | Video Shakkei, RMIT, Drawing Out |
Departments, Centres and Research Units: | Art |
Item ID: | 21226 |
Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2017 09:41 |
Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2017 09:41 |
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