about project
imperfect death
We take medicine and get surgery in the hope of immortality and eternity, but we're going to be lost in this world after all.
I think even the pieces of a jar broken by nine-tenths of a chance are as beautiful and meaningful as a jar completed with one-tenth of a chance.
'Watching the busking reminded me of an unfulfilled death.
Although there is a point of view that they can't be seen as successful as celebrities,
Even someone's unfulfilled achivement is a beautiful act that can inspire others.
also, Such death can be equated to mine.
Thought process
-statue (no information in british museum)
this anonymous statue reminded me of an imperfect but beautiful shape.
-Life and death
-fragments(moon jar)
jars often crack or collapse during the clay drying and firing stages.
The success rate is about 1 out of 10
-nam jun baek
the viewer tried to track down the line, but there is trace of failure around the line.
-busking (street performing tate)
-Success and failure
-well-known(like celebrity) and anonymous
-Imperfection death
-busking (Joshua Bell experiment)
-Imperfect death but it’s just people’s perception
why use cigarette for 3d experiment?
This project is another person's story and my story at the same time.
I am always struggling to get fulfilled achivement to myself.
I can't quit smoke while trying to get achivement
Also, after watching Damien Hirst's interview, I wanted to give him the same meaning as he thought.
‘I think it’s also an implication of endlessness, which kind of theoretically helps you avoid death. I’ve thought quite a lot about it. In a way, that’s why smoking is so sexy. Apart from the addiction, the attraction is that there’s nothing certain in life and things change all the time, but you can always rely on something like a cigarette – which punctuates your whole existence time and time again – to be the same. It’s almost like you’re cheating death. But it’s killing you, so then, smoking becomes even sexier. People are afraid of change, so you create a kind of belief for them through repetition. It’s like breathing. So I’ve always been drawn to series and pairs. A unique thing is quite a frightening object.’
if I want to develop this project?
i think i can dismantle and reassemble various objects related to my project in different ways foraward.
1.simply disassembly/recombination (object related to my situation ex) cigarette, coffee cup, +a)
2. Bake jars and clothes together to bring the idea of shape.
3. 2d and 3d boundary experiment (why? need reasons)
4. Different Analysis by Space (need to find how to solve it for garment design)
brief analysis
ruby sterling x raf simons
i looked at their inspiration and results to understand how their individuality and interests are linked together.
EXHM
punk’s diy ethos
the clash
raf simons 14fw
detail
thinking about collaboration
With tiffany pethick
T: 'So should we just research each of the exhibitions and see which ones we like the look of? '
S: I'm still immature in my work, but I think I like to take the principles out of my research and apply them to my design , Normally, it's good to give meaning and twist making process, but I'd like to try to bring other ways to design clothes. I don't know if that's gonna work out for the week project
T:Hahah I’m quite immature in my work too!! I’m mostly just inspired by what I see around me, and I tend to try replicate it through fabric and paper, and see where that leads me. I tend to work through prints and samples more than designing clothes - so it’ll be good working together!
S:'I think we can go as far as we can and whatever we see, we can talk about our own interests, get common points, and come up with outcome'
T: should we maybe go to the exhibitions separately and then on Monday we can look at the photos and drawings we took and compare the things that inspired us both?
S: Why don't you write about this as soon as possible and exchange it with each other? How is it? 'who you are, where you are from and what your interests are.'
1.Just mix, Influenced by artist techniques
Eg. Weaving , layered , outer fabric - lining
2.concept like african american(immigrant)
3.Repurposed
After textile development, apply it as a pattern idea. After developing the pattern, we apply it as a textile
4.collect and collage the visually connected images which we took in the exhibition and sample them using the techniques and concepts derived from them
6. exclude all pictures we took in the exhibition and only use their underlying technihes, thought and historycal fact for creating collage
british museum
nam jun baek(Tate)
honey circle company exhibition(ICA)
about exhibition
This exhibition is an introduction to Honey-Suckle Company. Between 1994 and the present day, Honey-Suckle Company have developed a novel holistic healing method. Honey-Suckle Company gives all human beings the opportunity to attain a natural state of wellness, amply protected from ailments of the body and mind. Honey-Suckle Company is a natural healing method without side effects that can be learned by any aspiring practitioner. Due to its effectiveness, over the past few decades, it has become a highly popular form of human-administered treatment. This exhibition sheds light on some of the treatment’s techniques and methods.
Honey-Suckle Company (adapted from Dr Bach’s Original Flower Remedies), 2019
Omnibus is the first survey of the work of Berlin collective Honey-Suckle Company, bringing together key moments of the group’s twenty-five-year history.
Founded in 1994, Honey-Suckle Company identify themselves as a movement, built around an ongoing series of fluctuating and ephemeral interventions within the fields of fashion, music and art. The collective emerged from the post-reunification and pre-Internet cultural and social contexts of Berlin, defined by underground techno and squatting scenes. Honey-Suckle Company derive their name and ethos from homoeopath Dr Edward Bach’s honeysuckle flower remedy. According to Bach, the honeysuckle plant’s properties help one to learn from past experiences and re-establish a sense of trust in the future in order to feel grounded in the present.
Omnibus and its accompanying programme present Honey-Suckle Company’s work as an evolving communal and holistic methodology, encompassing the group’s clothing, performances, happenings, installations, objects, photographs, music, films and publications. The exhibition spans the past, present and future of Honey-Suckle Company, drawing on their recurring fusion of style, performativity and the spatial environment.
Omnibus includes remnants of the group’s clothing collections, originally presented in the 1990s through performances, installations and films in self-run spaces such as the infamous galerie berlintokyo, and in tandem with music produced and performed with collaborators such as Captain Space Sex. The exhibition also presents re-imagined works such as NEUBAND (2000 – ongoing), which comprises physical structures, self-playing instruments and bodily adornments, repurposing the stylistic codes and visions of the Bauhaus and the early 20th-century Russian avant-garde. Omnibus culminates in the installations Non Est Hic (2006) and Materia Prima (2007) – scenographies which suggest portals and transitional states of being. In Materia Prima, a physical structure becomes the container for a zone of nothingness; the haptic, visible world dissolving into an auratic, psychic space. These works emphasize the group’s foregrounding of a collective consciousness, which is in a constant state of transition.
Omnibus is conceived by current Honey-Suckle Company members Peter Kišur, Nina Rhode, Simone Gilges, Nico Ihlein, and Lina Launhardt; with contributions from former members Zille Homma Hamid, Gregor Hylla, Frida Korn/ÜtOrYt, and Fritzi Palme; and ongoing collaborators, musicians Eleni Poulou and Konrad Sprenger.
V&A
research about reconstruct shape visually
It reminded me of the idea of a flat space of 2d and a volume of 3d.
material research for reconstruction
-iron 3d workshop
'find me in the dark' techno club
'find me in the dark'
'find me in the dark'
The sound and visualization reminded me of something disappearing, and I wanted to visualize this visual result by my hand while listening to music while thinking of Paul's drawing class.
british museum
cigarette
When I arrived at the museum, I smoked before starting research as usual.
There were a bunch of anonymous cigarette butts.
It reminded me of an interesting texture and people who smoked.
basket
here, the birch is loosely plaited and glued together and the silver side of the bark remains visible on the exterior instead of being turned inwards. It made me think about the texture that the incomplete form of the combination took shape and it gathered together.
anonymous statue
Although I did not find any information on this statue and its arm was broken, it reminded me of an incomplete but beautiful figure.
cradle to grave
the wall displays look at how people try to avert life's ordinary danger, and respond to sickness and trouble when they happen. these different approaches arise from the diverse ways people understand the world.
night bloom ll by mrinalini mukherjee
fragment of a moon jar
the fragments are from a discarded moon jar by park young-took. jars often crack or collapse during the clay drying and firing stages. park states that the success rate is about 1 out of 10. I have come to reflect on myself in comparison to this jar. I am living to achieve my goals. But not all people with goals can go where they want to go. My future could be broken like these fragments now, or close to the goal like a completed jar.
translated vase
yeesookyung collects discarded fragments from her ceramic-artist colleagues and combines them to create new compositions. she 'translates' or 'recycles' rejected objects to make new, whole works. her choice of gold-leaf epoxy highlights a play on words since Korean word 'geum'is a homonym that means both 'gold' and 'crack'. The composition of this work made me think about the way I worked. I will be inspired to disassemble and recombine any object related to me. Work using homonym with two meanings could also be considered.
moon jar
Even in a completed jar a slight twist in the middle of the torso prevents the appearance from forming a complete symmetry. A jar resembling the moon, a white porcelain moon jar, the oldest friend of mankind, long ago, people made wishes when the full moon rose. Our people, who had the wonder of the round and the big, regarded the moon as a mysterious and spiritual being. their love for the moon was so great that he made a white porcelain shaped like the moon and left it at home, a jar resembling a round, big moon, and a white porcelain moon jar.
It looks like it's crushed. There are even moon jars with strange stains on them. Why could a seemingly laconic moon jar become a national treasure and treasure? Why are the spiky moon jars loved?
see perfect beauty in imperfection.
It is quite difficult to make white porcelain of our country. The purity of the soil must be high, and the baking temperature must be very high. Because white porcelain was technically difficult to implement, it was a very valuable item in itself.
In addition, it was more difficult to make a big white porcelain like a moon jar. No matter how beautiful the shape is, the weight of the soil caused it to collapse when it enters the kiln.
So the way the potters came up with it was to make the upper and lower sections of the pottery separate, and then attach the two parts together. However, it did not solve all of these problems. One part was still distorted, and the perfect circular moon jar was left behind.
Moon jars are loved by many because of their imperfection, although one side is distorted. It had a variety that was not worn out because of its roughness, and was able to embrace freedom, comfort, and warmth. The beauty of the moon jar, the exquisite beauty found in the imperfect, is reminding me of how to love myself as I am.
+a[interview with Lee Hun-Jung(potter)]
Generally, it is a virtue to break a jar broken and crushed in a kiln.
When asked why they displayed the distorted and broken moon jars, the message "It is not the beauty of the moon jars of this era to repeat Joseon's moon jars."
"Unlike Japan, which wants to show perfect technology, and China, which prefers to be bigger than nature, our country has a sense of being a part of nature at some point. It's the emotion that's thrown away at some point in pursuit of the perfect circle. In that sense, we learn a lot from the sensitivity of the moon jar."
busking in front of Tate
Watching the busking reminded me of an unfulfilled death. But busking is literally about all the performances that people can find interesting. Although there is a point of view that they can't be seen as successful as celebrities, Even someone's unfulfilled achivement is a beautiful act that can inspire others. In the case of broken pieces of moon jar, I could think compared to my situation.
Joshua bell's experiment
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http://awesomevideomakers.com/joshua-bell-subway-video/
violinist Joshua playing the violin wasn't recognized by everyone passing by. he looks like a failed men like a broken pieces, but he's actually renowned violinist. it was just perception of people.This research gave me a thought-provoking insight into the relationship between my work and my background context.
+a Christian MARCLAY
a social failure
ICA gallery, honey suckle company exhibition
I could think about the situation of someone who died without achieving his purpose, which could be represented by a gold heart. The Gil-Sander box reminded me of the background of capitalist society and also reminded me of my goals in fashion design.
An unkempt texture was interesting to me and it reminded me of situation of someone who was anonymous at the same time.
tate (nam jun baek)
the anonymous viewer tried to track down the line according to the author's intention, but there was trace of failure. The negative space was like a broken piece.
meaning of cigarette for me
I am always struggling to get fulfilled achivement to myself. I can't quit smoke while trying to get achivement. Also, after watching Damien Hirst's interview, I wanted to give him the same meaning as he thought.
‘I think it’s also an implication of endlessness, which kind of theoretically helps you avoid death. I’ve thought quite a lot about it. In a way, that’s why smoking is so sexy. Apart from the addiction, the attraction is that there’s nothing certain in life and things change all the time, but you can always rely on something like a cigarette – which punctuates your whole existence time and time again – to be the same. It’s almost like you’re cheating death. But it’s killing you, so then, smoking becomes even sexier. People are afraid of change, so you create a kind of belief for them through repetition. It’s like breathing. So I’ve always been drawn to series and pairs. A unique thing is quite a frightening object.’