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I found it interesting and useful to investigate the works and sculptures of the artist Antony Gormley. I found his statues of the human body especially interesting as it relates more to our site specific performance as we are also looking at the use of body in sculptures to create a performance related to the architecture and history of the library building.  The sculptures used by Antony Gormley take up a substantial amount of  room in the space used by the artist, however, the space is  not cluttered by the sculptures but is light and open and its clear to see that the artist had meaning to where and why he placed the sculptures in the space he did.  Each sculpture is created by different materials that I will research and look into with more detail, I believe that this will be useful to our performance as a source of inspiration as we could find other raw materials we could use to create our sculptures.

Anthony Gormleys artwork investigates the relationship of the human body to space. He asks the question, Where does the human body stand in relation to nature and cosmos. I’m interested and excited about Antony Gormley’s work and I shall  continue researching him and other artists as a source of inspiration to our performance.

Abigail Earlie

Today, our aim was to experiemnt with new materials that we could use for the casting of body parts that will be used in our performance. As a group we went into the Art Studio and asked if we could possibly use some sort of material that would be used to create a more  fuller and thicker sculpure of a body part compared to our last attempt of mod roc as we felt the mod roc sculpture was very fragile. This experimental process was in order  to see if  other forms of material looked more natural and realistic compared to our last attempt. The Art department was very helpful and gave us some alginate powder that we mixed with water to create a paste that was easy to spread over a moisturised  hand. We then covered the pasted hand in strips of the  plaster of paris bandages until we was happy that the hand was fully covered. When it began to set, we then filled the hand with a thick paste mixture and we left it to set for a hour. The result was a thick 3D cast of a human hand. I was very impressed with the result of the hand and we will be experimenting with other body parts in the futre to see if they are as succesful.  I am interested to see what the casts of arms and legs, faces and feet will look like.

Abigail Earlie

In this weeks sessions and time spent with my group, I plan to think in more depth of how could the architecture of  this particular building changes the human body within a performance. The architecture is crucial to this building and its so interesting to be given the chance to explore this by means of a physical and creative performance. The use of the bottom space at the bottom of the stair well is so interesting because I don’t think that many students really pay attention to this interesting and unusual empty space. Why is this space there? What can be done in this space? How can we capture the attention and imagination of the intended audience by using this space in a interesting way?   Our main aim is to plant mod roc casts all over the stair well. I will also start to think and plan in more detail about the materials we shall be using in our performance. I will research the use of sculptures within a specific space and how they can create a huge impact to a buildings significance.

Abigail Earlie.