Group crit

Crit notes

·       3 pipes laid on ground, concrete slab ontop, flat, chain in crevice

·       Pipe, rock at bottom, chain hanging off

·       Poles aren’t clean, sticky residue

·       Concrete balancing on limestone

·       Rounded limestone with wire cage around it

·       City ecosystem vibe

·       Tension between natural and industrial, manmade,

·       Violence, crushing, bin

·       Limestone on the right

·       Pipe as an art object

·       No longer functional

·       Naturally shaped road

·       Artist hand present only in the limestone

·       Metal & fabrication ambiguous, handmade or store bought?

·       Residue on PVC, becomes a product, barcodes, label

·       65 ml pipes are not usually used, its usually 95 ml

·       Close to wall on either side

·       Resembles a  gutter

·       Flow created through the length of the pipes

·       Suggestive of liquids

·       Chainmail armourà jewellery, decorative

·       Pre industrial era of human combat

·       Danger

·       Balancing, precarious

·       Leaky

·       Potential of falling

·       Disarray

·       Form over presence in infrastructure

·       Residue of an event or person through the scattered chainmail

·       Dismembered chainmail

·       Too fragmented to be used

·       Purpose of chains

·       Spilt out of pipes

·       Infrastructure through placement of roads

·       Chains seem performative

·       Pipe- protection, guidance

·       Surfaces, protective, of volatile substances

·       Protecting soft flesh or internal substance from being pierced

·       Limestone is an outlier

·       It is preindustrial despite the PVC

·       Rolling, preindustrial movement of stone

·       Preindustrial wanting to peek through

·       The objects used aren’t usually decorative

·       Aesthetic value over functionality

·       Minimal but it has a flourish

·       Labour of bodies

·       Kevin Everson

·       Lena Henke chainmail

·       Play with the scale of the pipe

·       Repeated circular form

·       Chainmail out of pipe

·       Circles connote movement of fluids

·       Play with the forms as veins or internal systems

·       Peel back the floorboards

·       Bury a painting, what can you put inside the walls, drains or roads

·       Relation reversals

·       Cable chain, road, limestone, pipe

·       Vertical and horizontal

·       Stacked and layered

·       Pipes are about 3 meters long

·       Juxtaposing the natural and the man made

·       Limestones are carved, others are formed naturally

·       Close to the wall

·       Caged/trapped nature

·       Long flowing form of poles

·       Violence, crushing, binding, chaining

·       Danger in things rolling away and falling, in limbo

·       Organic and uncontrolled

·       Chain link, wire, steel, is laid out onto the limestone & the pipes

·       Limestone is sharper, more square, rectangular pieces, the others are irregular

·       Plastic pipes, one is going up the wall, there are three on the floor

·       Another stone is placed on top of the limestone

·       Laid out across the hall, takes up space on both sides

·       There are layers with different components, stacked

·       Artists hand present in the limestone

·       Different scales of chainmail

·       Placement feels very thought out