April 2015 – SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE

Book Pages Collage

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton / April 29, 2015April 29, 2015 / Main Page

The second board I have created focuses on Coningsby as a station, the second station for the railway to visit.
This board is a collage made entirely out of book pages, mounted onto cardboard.
The word ‘Coninsby’ is cut out of the cardboard, this is so that when the board is mounted against the window, the light will shine through the word and be visiually appealing. This will draw direct attention to the back wall of the library, which is the main focus of my piece.
The book pages are used as a direct and visiual link to the library, as well as being a material for me to explore and be creative with.
This is my original sketch for the board:

This is how my board has progressed:

As you can see, I have achieved my goal of having the light shine through the book pages to create a visually pleasing piece of art work. I think with the dark brickwork surrounding this board and the bright light from the window, this will look really good.

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton

Book Spines Frame

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton / April 29, 2015 / Main Page

The first board I have created for my window features is a frame made of book spines to frame the window that looks onto Lincoln Cathedral. This has been one of my favourite features since I first explored the library. The cathedral is really clear through this window and looks beautiful, and I do not feel like enough people pay attention to this architextual feature. My book spines frame will hopefully encourage students to look out into Lincoln.
Lincoln is also the first station in which the old railway used to stop, this is where the railway would collect the goods from the warehouse. So this window is particularly important.

This is my original sketch for how I wanted the frame to look.
Dan and Conan talked about experimenting with materials and seeing what I could create so this frame is made entirely out of hardback book spines. The use of book spines is a direct and obvious link to the library, as well bringing your focus to the city of Lincoln, Lincoln as a station and the brickwork feature of the back wall of the library.

This is how my art piece has progressed:

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton

Trialing a few of the 101 tasks

Jake Lewis Hastings-Eldridge / April 25, 2015 / Main Page

On Friday 24th April 2015, our group went through some of our tasks to see how the general public reacted. We got varied responses, when it came to the “Sleeping” task we had some worried looks and we even had somebody help with getting me and the trolley into the lift. I am beginning to feel very confident regarding the tasks that we have got, and I feel that once we start running each task we will become more confident doing the ‘abnormal’ tasks in front of the whole library.

Body Sculpture

Abigail Elizabeth Earlie / April 24, 2015 / Research

Artist Ken Clarke has worked in film studios creating human body sculptures for films. Life cadting is a mould created by materials mixed together and then shaped around the persons body. These moulds can be placed any where and almost instantly they create new and unusual pieces of art. By taking the mould directly from the natural body, the mould casts are extremley lifelike with every detail and every freckle is captured, this makes the casts unique and a performance a one and only. The casts of the body in these moulds create a record of the changes of the human body. A life cast can consist of a pregnant woman ranging to a childs hands. In our performance we have chosen to take inspiration from Ken Clarke and we have experiemented with the variations of body parts that can be cast.

Abigail Earlie

Art Studio Work

Abigail Elizabeth Earlie / April 24, 2015 / Tasks

22cnd April 2015.

As our performance is based on the architexture of the libary and the human body we have chosen to Mod Roc body parts and place them in interested and unusual places on and around the libary stair case. Body parts and the image of body parts have been our groups main focus this week as we have researched the architexture to an extent and now are focusing on creating a decent amound of Mod Rock casts to place all over the libary. These are images showing our group mod rocking an arm using strips of material and water and we are still waiting for the outcome of the cast. The results of our mod rocking in the past have been very good and the casts replicate real imitations of body parts. The casts when finished have alot of detail and are very interesting to look at as well as looking very unusual. We created these mod rock casts in the Art studio on the University Campus and found that we can create alot of material in the space and with the avaliable materials that are on offer. Hopefully when these casts are finished we are hoping to place them all around the stair case of the libary. It will be very interesting to see our audiences reaction when they see the casts. We are continuing creating the casts for the libary this week.

Abigail Earlie