Friday, August 27, 2010

New Semester, new medium?

Just to get the writing going, here is my proposal for the Duchamp workspace. By relation, this proposal tranformed into my first production proposal of sorts. Brief explanation of the potentially foot-in-mouth project:

In the Duchamp workspace I plan to construct a body of sculptural work with bones to accompany videos I will be making at the same time. These will be structures that may be static, functional furniture, or even movable sculpture. * The space will be where the pieces will be put together and housed because I would have no place other than my apartment to keep them. All of the pre-production for them like sanding and drilling has already been done and any further work will be done downstairs in the workshop. Duchamp will also be where I document and work on the multimedia installation construction.

I have all of my materials, bones, camera, drill, screws, etc and ready to start construction immediately.
This project will be completed by September 13, but will also be an ongoing exploration in sculpture with the bones and other materials during the span of my inhabitation there.

*More specifically this work is an exploration and re-assembly of the bovine, and what it eats. By showing at a microscopic level how corn is re-assembled, in turn the things that consume it will also change slightly in biology. Is this natural? I want present a class of (un)naturalites and hope to conjure the question of what it means to be natural. Does it really matter? These are natural bones being constructed to make new natural forms just like corn is made into high fructose corn syrup; but I still will not eat things containing this product. But is the state of nature similar to what Alan Moore states about miracles? “Miracles, by their definition, are meaningless. Only what can happen does happen.” Does it matter? I want wade hip deep in this issue of biotechnology and agricultural industry for a time and try to find my place. Again I find myself torn between two places not belonging in either.