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Degree Show

Art school is over.

Degree Show 2012 happened. Proper images soon at www.hazelfrance.co.uk.

In the mean time here are some quite strange images of the room where my work was installed alongside Claire Adams Ferguson, Caroline Dawson and Hannah Watt.

The room for the show was dark as all our works used projectors.

Here the lights are on and the machines are off.

Venus

 Via http://slimeslut.tumblr.com/

Rotate

Proposal for rotation.
Fimo, lamp, timer switch, motor, projector stand.

Glow

Glow in the dark fimo, lamp, timer switch, projector stand.

Creedo

Henning Bohl

"...but central to this exhibition was the artist's economical use of the gallery. Only four of the sculptures were shown in the large main space each accompanied by a single plain white cardboard cone, which acted as a kind of location marker. The remaining 12 could be found in a smaller space at the end of the main room. Here they stood cramped, packed, and densely stacked, almost as if the room were a storage space guaranteeing a constant supply for the front room as each of the works was sold.  Bohl referred to the front gallery as the 'show room' and the back space as a garage' - applying terms from the world of car dealing to the ones of art dealing.

Bohl showed the exact same group of works in his recent exhibition in the Kunstverein in Hamburg, even giving the same title to both shows.

...Bohl sites this repetion as a means of tackling today's steady pressure on artists to constantly produce new works and to come up with fresh ideas for each exhibition. 

...According to Bohl, this allows the artist to gain time for the more important things in life - things not related to art."

From Frieze Issue 145

Philippe Parreno

IDS : WHAM-BAM-LECTURE-LECTURE

The Information Delivery Service proudly presents:


WHAM-BAM-LECTURE-LECTURE
Information Speculation

15th March 2012, 8-9.30pm
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB


The Information Delivery Service proudly announces its first public lecture on the topic of Information Speculation.

Attempts are being made by each one of us to make some sense of the constant stream of social, audio, spatial, visual, local and global information in which we find ourselves precariously spinning. Each of us attempts to do so equipped with approximately 1.4kg of electrolysed grey matter. At this moment in time no method has yet been employed by the human race to absorb and funnel this data to a satisfactory level. 

The IDS is dedicated to developing it's own idiosyncratic concepts of communication and information, knowledge and expertise. They aim to then dissolve these structures and wallow somewhere in between imagination and anxiety and take pleasure in the inevitable impossibility of information delivery.

Please join us for a one-hour performative lecture on the subject of information itself.

Refreshments will be provided over conversation following the main event.

Tom Dale

Western Negative. Sculpture. Still image burned into screen of monitor. TV Broadcast monitor. Dim: 60cm x 80cm x 80cm. 2007

black cube space testing

Documentation images of studio research.
To be continued.

24 of 48 circles... and five tubes

man : I'll never look at a roll of wallpaper in a shop in the same way again.

lady : good.

Proposals for Intervention

Perpetual Cleaning Stage 1
There are people cleaning old statues around the college. In a pair, one of you stands on a box fairly close to one of the cleaners and their statue. The other cleans you from head to toe using similar tools to the statue cleaners such as cotton wool, brushes and water. You begin when they begin. You take breaks when they take breaks. You go home when they go home. Interaction with each other and the cleaners should be kept to a minimum.



Perpetual Cleaning Stage 2
Now you have developed an affinity with the statue cleaners, you wish to aid them in their task. You must wait until they have left their station unoccupied. Each time they leave you must add materials to their cleaning kit, one item at a time. This may include topping up their water pots or adding items such as cotton wool balls, blue rubber gloves and brushes. They must not see you.

Roni Horn

A new project. The Black Cube. Thinking about darkness, and therefore light.

I saw these sculptures in the exhibition Roni Horn aka Roni Horn last year at Tate. Again, simple is best

Wallpaper

Interested in letting objects do what they want to do. For example a roll of wallpaper wants to make itself be a tower.

Extraordinary Object

For this project I was recording time through making objects, looking at:

• the time frame of one hour
• repetition and endurance
• the idea of non objects (like the origami triangular dipyramids, which hold no particular meaning.)
• the importance of colour