Today I met the group I will be collaborating with for Unit X. There is a range of Fine Art and Art History students, so it is exciting to be working with people from other courses as we can all bring something innovative to the table. A few days ago I created a Facebook page in order for us to all interact with ease, and discuss ideas and days to meet up.

 

This morning we met up at the Holden Gallery with our tutor David Osbaldeston to discuss what we all think appropriation could refer to and what work each of us had made in the past that could refer to our chosen theme of 'Appropriation'. We discussed the many references to appropriation used within art such as reproduction, duplication and 'where may lie the authentic'. I found out about how William Hogarth produced prints of his paintings to be distributed, only for people to copy this idea. This meant that the quality of work as lowered as there were many duplicates. This brought upon the idea of copyright, which we discussed what we may think this to be.

As a group we went round and showed each other a piece that we thought we could link to Appropriation. I showed my Foundation video piece were I took Andy Warhol's 'Superstars' screen test idea, and filmed myself in the same style, with the pretentious background music of the Velvet Underground.

 

 

We also discussed initial ideas we had and I mentioned my 'Fallen Woman' performance idea.

I had also had a quick idea that everyone seemed to enjoy. I've taken the idea of Marina Abramovic's piece 'Rhythm 0', where she laid out a series of items such as chains, roses and a gun and turned it into a less serious piece, where I'd lay out silly things such as water guns and silly string, and the audience are guided to use them upon me. I may pursue this idea as a quick experiment for this project.

After the meeting had finished, I decided to post in our group about what we had discussed, partly for those who weren't there, but also to get the group discussion up and running.