Double Blog - Artspace Exhibit + Art and Time

Kosloff, L. Roller Disco. 2005.Super 8 film transferred to DVD (Accessed on May 12th from www.artspace.org.au)

Laressa Kosloff's documentary-like video piece is currently being exhibited in Artspace until the 23rd of May. The work is captured using Super 8 film (creating, from what I can only presume based upon the still frame of her work, a seemingly dated, grainy brown film), depicting the actions of groups of people and organised gatherings within varying contexts. The work draws attention to humanity's interaction with any physical environmental space and other beings within that space. Among the variety of activities she films, Kosloff captures laughing clubs and living statues, raising the ever-present question of social and environmental boundaries and the extents to which they are pushed.

Artspace - Gallery Projects - www.artspace.org.au

Art + Time

Today in Concepts (Sculpture), we had to bring in our ideas (in the form of dioramas or written word) or physical works for assessment. I brought in a diorama that featured miniature replicas of a microwave cooking popcorn, black coverings and black curtains to eliminate light from entering the room and an air conditioner supposedly set to the lowest temperature it could reach. The aim of my work was to jar the senses; to tempt and retract. Upon entering the room, one would feel incongruent sensory responses; the dulling of vision and inability to engage in a gustatory experience, heightening the viewer's 3 remaining sensory responses to the auditory experience of the popcorn and the vibrations of the microwave, the tactile experience of the cold and the olfactory experience of the smell of the popcorn. One guy suggested that instead of maintaining a constant state of popcorn being cooked, I could allow the popcorn to cook and eventually burn, altering the smell in the room and hopefully reaching the point of smoking. By doing this, Michael suggested the work would become a "set" work; one that I took to mean a set period of time; a process work in which time was a key element to the development and progressive viewing of the work.