Muybridge inspired time - based project: Acconci, Goldsworthy & Kentridge

Muybridge  was a leader in two fields of photography - motion pictures and his photography of Yosemite. In Yosemite he considered different angles and times of day to show light and shadow.  He then went on to observe movement of objects as time passed beginning with animals and progressing to people.  He expressed change over time in anything he photographed.  He also did urban scenes, framing them to capture cultural and social relevance.  In other words he used photography to express change.  The three artists below also use their art to express change.  And all of them are eccentric in many ways or to put it differently they are the few who express more than is usually seen.  They challenge reality.   

Vito Acconci

Instant  House, 1980

Vito Acconci created Instant House pulled together by ropes by the viewer inside.  The panels combine performance with installation.
He often uses sound in his work and in the 1970s his presence was only know by his voice.

mona.org; core77.com

                                                     Andy Goldsworthy

Dandelions with Hole
                                                           

Incredible serpentine tree root

Goldsworthy does environmental, site specific installation and sculpture.  He's done many variation on leaves, flowers, feathers and other natural items arranged in beauty in the outdoors and then allowed to disintegrate by the elements of wind, heat, cold.  

In his Shadow  video he laid on the ground until coverd with snow.  Then he got up and left.  The snow covered the bare spot... a reminder of nature's continuing cycles.

morning-earth.org;

William Kentridge

                                               I am not me, the horse is not mine

                                                     Breathe, Dissolve, Return

Kentridge moves things around demonstrating change in patterns, in pictures, in stories.  His performance art is part theatrical, part lecture and part installation.  I am not me, the horse is not mine explores Russian modernism and the idea of the artitst;s control or lack of it through the presentation of multiple selves.  He superimposes himself in film so that he appears three times.
 Hs says that art is the way we understand who we are.

In 2008 he performed Breathe, Dissolve, Return.  Small pieces of torn black tissue swirl and fall making patterns.  A singers breathing conducts the movement.
Disslove shows Kentridge conducting with the singer bathed in reflections of water where images ripple and dissolve.
Return shows Kentridge's sculpture rotating first abstract then a clear image.

mariangoodman.com; moma.org; sfmoma.org


My ideas will include something using Goldsworthy's ideas of building something in nature.  I might us some superimposing or pulling with string as well.