Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood, Still Life, 2001

http://artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=25377

My initial response was it is just a speeded up record of decaying fruits. Why there is a pen? Everything is going to be disintegrated. Here we see fruits but the walls and pen are "unchanged". We just see a record of a part of a time? It is a record - something similar to our memories - speeded up so we can see what happened to fruits in time. Is it a moving still painting? Yes, and the pen says approximately when it was recorded and we clearly see what is decaying fast (life) and what is decaying slowly (lifeless things). We see a state of being as it flows in a time. Anyway the current state of anything happens only now in present. We see just a record and will be seen only in our memories. Need more time to think about that :-).

Taylor Wood "A Little Death" [2002]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01tx6u3lasM

Nice, we can see what is decaying faster :-)

Interpretation of Longplayer

There was an idea connected to millennium especially how to make time experience tangible. Finer's intention is to convey passing time to us from point of view of philosophy, physics and cosmology. His desire to make a 1000 year long music piece build a music system with a shape which reminds the solar system with its rotating planets or an atom structure. The longplayer has a system of six concentric circles where singing bowls are arranged. The music is composed and played as the time passes on every circle according to calculated positions. Combinations of these positions will never be repeated after 1000 years.

The choice of singing bowls was perfect to create a meditation atmosphere and really listen to the longplayer makes me fulfilled by peace, stillness and reflect other questions in my mind. Is there really a time? What represents the record in my phone now the longplayer has been playing for 15 years 333 days 4 hours 25 minutes 46 second. Now it is 29 minutes 25 second. Listening to longplayer makes my mind calm. The rushing thoughts are away and there is a mind with its stillness. I think a combination of a light, a connection with seeing sense would be great experience (as I had it when I was listening to longplayer and researching Roder Crater).

Finer made great hearing experience and anybody who listen to it must realize themselves through that medium.

Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance 1980-1981

It is time based piece. He has photographed himself every hour one year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvebnkjwTeU

Ana Mendieta: Traces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Nk0sPfRrU

Roden Crater

Listening to Longplayer and watching the Alpha tunnel (especially when it moves at the main page) was such a great experience of peace, unknown, mysterious, try it as well. I like the atmosphere of the place. It strongly reminds me Kubrick's Odyssey.

James Turrell on Moving Towards a New Landscape - Station to Station EP12 - WIRED

James Turrell's Alpha (east) tunnel

Site-specific art

Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork.

Site is a current location, which comprises a unique combination of physical elements: depth, length, weight, height, shape, walls, temperature.

Source: wikipedia

Outdoor site-specific artworks:
Henry Moore


Alexander Calder


George Segal


Robert Smithson


Dan Flavin


Richard Serra

2 dimensions: line

I made a photograph of a light (point) inside a tunnel at 80 km/h (I did not drive).

Longplayer

I have just installed the longplayer into my phone. My initial reaction to the idea of that piece was: It must be something special. Listening to that piece reminds me a song TIME by PinkFloyd. The music / sounds are piece-full, movement is everywhere, I can feel whole universe and its emptiness :-), just listen and relax. I have some applications for music composition and those sounds are very suitable to play with them, to combine them, just let play with them and listen. I can play with those sounds nearly whole day and it is "composed" somehow itself. It looks I have no influence on it :-). The music hold my consciousness in a great, unspeakable state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhEI3FEvxU0

Tacita Dean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lefvPUYGvi0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DexVQrDxZ1o&list=PLC27etu8jEkjNa5PvcsNbNmQihlWbJH9g

Project 2 Time and time based media - Exercise 1 The fourth dimension

Time-base media is a term used to cover sound, video, film, performance and any other media which is duration-based.

We have
1 dimension - the dot
2 dimensions - the line, drawing or painting
3 dimensions - the cube, sculpture
4 dimensions - the time: sound, film, video, performance

My notions:
I have never thought about time in relation to artwork. I have been interested in reading and listening about the present time for last 3 years and time in relation with our perception, with our mind. The mind is a machine which records events as memories (past) and plans (future). So what is time? A file of memories? Assume, there is no mind, no memories, will be there a time? There will be an awareness of a being state. The same it is with state we wake up after we fell asleep. Sometimes it is longer, sometimes the time is short. Anyway, the time in dreaming state, can we say exactly how fast the time is? No. It is our mind which tells us what time is it.

I like that talking about time by Rupert Spira:
https://youtu.be/nGqnPtrjNPg?t=152

Anish Kapoor

http://anishkapoor.com/ - wikipedia information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVSGErfg8E

http://www.jewish-museum.ru/en/exhibitions/anish-kapoor-my-red-homeland/


"I am nothing to say as an artist I'm not interested in what I know. The job of an artist the work of an artist is not to do what we know. The artist is like a fool like an idiot. going on a journey to discover something and I think it is quality of that discovery which is the mysterious, mythology of the artist and that is what I hope I am doing."

"There is in a way a constant continuous process that gives up the same questions again and again and again so those questions are for me you know The void object of a none object, many questions about colour, questions about space and time because I really do believe that for there to be new objects there has to be new space and then of the Sigmund Freund what is the object after psychoanalysis, what is the status of the object ......"

".......... one other things I'm interested in is the idea that object is unlimited. The physical object always has unknown physical counterpart and that the two are in some strange dialogue but when it is right the physical object is not limited by its physical self. If you think about ourselves our bodies as an object we occupy ourselves but I know that I am NOT just this (he shows on his hand). I think the same is true all those things that we reflect upon as art, it is a very special condition but in art there is this possibility of the object being something else on I'm interested in that."

  - Anish Kapoor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7sx0zsUjP4

10 Contemporary Artworks That Confront Mortality

http://flavorwire.com/406465/10-contemporary-artworks-that-confront-mortality/10

Marilyn Arsem
https://vimeo.com/65170422

It was a little bit uneasy to see it till end. As we are used to doing something every time it was hard to keep my mind quiet and just seeing what is happening on screen. Some woman is pushing very slowly two glasses on wooden table at its end and the glasses fell down at the end. It was 7-hour performance. Why somebody undertook it? To slow down time, to show how our mind are still keeping thinking and it is really hard to see something like this? I was really nervous what I will see next. I was waiting for an action, in my mind revealed  thoughts like why there are two glasses fulfilled by water. Ok, water = life, two = world of polarities, right? Death Life, at the end the glasses are both broken. Never-ending story life - death - life - death etc.

"A work of art is completed by the viewer."

Notions from https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/global-culture/beginners-guide-contemporary-art1/v/hirst-s-shark-interpreting-contemporary-art

"A work of art is completed by the viewer." - Marcel Duchamp

"By choosing the thing itself, he created the impossibility of its preservation. .... You have that whole conceptual dimension, but then you have this absolutely physical dimension and you have this clash between that physical and that poetic. It's in that contradiction, It's in that confrontation that I think the art really is."

"Yeah, I don't think it's just in the title. The Title is lovely and really speaks to me, I admit it. But the title with the sculpture is a really complicated experience."

EVEREST

I have seen a film EVEREST and must say it hit my heart. I have not seen such a film for a long time. People do a very dangerous journey close to death just to stand up that mountain to fulfil their desire.

When I was back home from Cinema I was reading some information about the film and expedition. Even the film is based on true story and the frozen bodies those who did not survive are still laying there. There is a point which is call Green boots which is used as a landmark for climbers. It is an unidentified corps of a body. Green Boots Wikipedie

The image of the Green boots point really not shocked me but surprised me somehow (contradiction between the desire / reality - the death is closer than you think). What climbers are feeling when passing that point and seeing the frozen body laying there what their thoughts are about? It is the dead zone where human body has problem with insufficient delivery of oxygen to regenerate itself, it is fatal risk to help others there.