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Dust collecting

Methods of finding and collecting dust.

simon starling

Simon Starling is interested in the processes involved in changing things into different things. He won Turner Prize 2005 for the hut below, below. Shed boatshed. He dismantled a shed and turned it into a boat and he sailed it down the Rhine. a buttress for modernity, mass production and capitalism. Do all works have three themes in them? It seems that way 2 me.

Tom Phillips

Tom phillips said "When theres hardly anything left theres always a mark". He made a drawing as a film. It was of nothing in particular. He completed the drawing and then began to rub it out. Gradually he was left with the" scars of history" and a pile of dust on the floor. Some of it is charcoal, chalk, oose, food fragments, body bits, sawdust. These were all part of something bigger at one point. Dust marks are interesting. Repeating marks in different ways, namely different versions of the dust marks. I suppose there is also the idea of mortality in dust. A reminder of were we will ultimately end up. Phillips talks about the park bench being an emblem of mortality - people sitting about waiting to die. This got me thinking about looking at my dust in new angles. Im thinking that wether or not my dust is art; the process involved is art.

methods of research

1. Books

The Poetics of space by Gaston Bachelard, The Dust of Death by Oz Guiness, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, susan bee and Mira schor.

2. Journals

Close Up, Dawn Ades and Simon Baker. Art World, 7th Oct/Nov 2008

3. slide

"The Breeding Ground of Dust", Man Ray

4. archives

5. e-mail

6. talking to staff, students, people

7. Lectures

8. Internet

9. Photographs

10. blog following

11. Video - Tom Philips

12. Looking at other work in studio

13. inspiration from other blogs

14. experimenting in studio - with lamp, energy from duster, blowing, rubbing, mark making, containing, wall banging.

My Philosophy of Dust

Relating to dust, and by "dust" i dont mean clatty, minging, durty stuff. rather I refer to it as the stuff that the human race is made of; genetic make-up and DNA. Which leds me to the idea that one is a distillation of their environment going right back to the begining of time. eg. Darwins theory of evolution or in a religious context,or some other theory. We all started from something or other and From that we have become...therefore that dust is our dust and our dust is from that which came before us. Furthermore, If dust is isolated to a specific area eg. the mack building and people who have traversed the corridors and studios etc.. in the distant past have left remnants of themselves. Therefore by and large they are still here in a sense.

diary for project

4/2/09
arrived extra early with ideas for hanging dust. did it. tidied desk sorted out sketchbook a bit. attended lecture. back 2 studio, more tidy up. blogging at home. crit 2moro 11.40am.

3/2/09
Did drawings, rubbed out and collected dust in bags, inspired by Tom Phillips video. Tried making dust fly off duster - worked a bit. Made dust catchers for this process from stuff I moulded earlier in project. Asked painters if I could place dust catchers below paintings - will collect tomorrow. Spoke to Paul, now im thinking how to take this dust to another dimension. Lifted dust from various things in studio ie. door, bin, wall etc..using a small sketchbook. This made a variety of different marks with varying tones of grey. Some colour came off some items. Stuck masking tape diagonally across the space between the 2 walls at a corner. This created angled shadows almost like a pyramid. Added poofs of dust to some of the tape and a napkin I used to clean dust off chair. Sketching at home - ideas for installing dust. Blogging.

2/2/09
Spoke to tutor about research, got a video. Spoke to jake bout fotography student whose degree was foto of some piles of dust. Tidied work space. Re-arranged wall. Tried out blowing dust at a lamp, never worked. Need a different type of lamp. dust Tried bangning wall to see what dust I could create - not very much. Collected my dust catchers from around basement - result 2 had dust in them. Made duster make a mark in sketchbook - I autographed it on its behalf. Got a few others to make their mark. Blogging at home and watched video.

1/2/09
blogging at home, Thinking about wether or not my dust is art?




29/01/09 - Studio Talked with tutor. I told him everything I didn't want to do then realised that was exactly what I was going to do. Went about skool asking people to make a dust mark in my sketchbook and autograph it. nipped into archives to ask about info on past students etc... Library for a wee bit of research. Collected more dust took fotos. Back to studio to put dust in bags. Stuck some "dust catchers" at strategic places around skool. Will leave them for a couple of days and see what happens. Blogging at home.

28/01/09 - H&C lecture avante garde, made me think about about conveying a message in work.
Studio, mostly chatting bout work and getting involved with others. Made some wet paper moulds and re-arranged research on wall. Did the BBC interview upstairs.
Blogging at home.

27/01/09 - Studio & library. Nipped into CCA to see project 2891 had a chat with artist and his wee baby. e-mailed Peter from Archives re: access to really old dust.
Blogging at home.

26/01/09 - dust collecting and referencing it. Blogging at home.

24/01/09 - Attended Hapless, helpless, hopeless - its about visual language and confusion.
Blogging at home.

Thot for this week - dont poo poo ideas!