Last week was crazy, crazy and one more time crazy!
Thursday, 25th of October, 3.30 pm: I am in Blanchardstown SC with my boyfriend and friend Dorota. We are looking for holiday to some hot place, starting from Saturday or Sunday. The idea to fly somewhere appeared in our minds 2 hours earlier. I did not have any holiday from about 3 years so I decided to take an opportunity as I have mid term break in ITB. For this period there is only trip to Turkey (from Sunday, 7 nights) available. Perfect! We have to only check the weather. Hmmm… the weather in Turkey for the next week: Monday – 22 HC, Tuesday – 20 HC… No! No! No! To cold! Resigned, we came back home. 5pm: we are checking offers of travel agencies at websites. There is nothing instead of trip to Morocco for ‘only’ 700 euro. Suddenly there appeared an offer of holiday in Lanzarote. Weather – HOT! It is our last chance. But wait a minute. There is one difficulty: the flight is from Knock airport next day at 11am. I behaved irresponsible and thought ‘what the hell, let’s do it’. And then it started: packing, preparing everything. We woke up at 2 am and go to Knock and at 6 pm we landed in Lanzarote. I will not be writing how wonderful this trip was, just add a picture:
Because I missed the field trip to IMMA I decided to do it on my own. Honestly I was never a fan of Modern Art. After visit in IMMA I changed my mind. The biggest impression made on me art work of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov : The Children’s Hospital.
There was a hospital bed and next to this was mechanical model theater telling a story through words, music and movement of puppets.
I liked very much ‘The Process Room’ by Tine Melzer. This exhibition was definitely connected with visual language. In my opinion the book : ‘The Grass is greener on the other side’ is very interesting.
On every photography, projected in The Process Room was some sentence (for example: ‘Look South and Smile’). There was also one example of Melzer’s exhibition called ‘When in doubt…’. In this case it was: ‘When in doubt, close your eyes’.
There was a few interesting art works, however this two made on me the biggest impression. Unfortunately I could not take photos inside of IMMA, however I took some shots outside of the building.
UPDATE
I have read today that there is assignment according to field trip to IMMA. We have to publish 3 sketches of art work and describe them.
1. Ann Hamilton – American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but is also active in the fields of photography, printmaking, video, and video installation. She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas and later received an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. She taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1991 and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1993.
Hamilton’s work which I choose is called ‘Filament II’. It was made by organza fabric, steel mount with electronic controller. This is the part of exhibition “Between Metaphor and Object”. Honestly, when I saw this art work my first thought was “baldachin” and dreams. I am not sure if I understand how massage artist wanted to deliver. I was searching information about this work, however unfortunately I couldn’t find anything.
2. Tine Melzer – The interdisciplinary work of visual artist Tine Melzer primarily focuses on the coded nature of language and aims at deconstructing the fears and desires bound to its imaginary. Her theoretical and practical research challenges our behaviour and codes in language.Melzer studied visual arts and philosophy and has been a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. She teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and currently reads for a PhD at the Planetary Collegium.
Especially I was interested in one of the example of Melzer’s exhibition called “When in doubt”. This is part of “Process Room”. According to artist’s official website ‘An ultimately interior dialogue takes place in moments of doubt. It is a private, fragile and often secret experience. A work which pretends to offer ‘solutions’ in this state offers simple suggestions in a random order, trying to camouflage the complexity of coming to a decision in a dilemma.’ This ‘advice’ is presented out of their context, yet reveal different levels of relevance.’ I think that partially I understood artist’s intention.
