Critique Last Week

Long time no see.

We had a midterm critique last week. We only have 6 weeks left until the final presentation. Boo.

I got good critique. I think all the feedbacks were positive and I was quite surprised. I felt like I hadn't spent enough time into my works but yeah, I guess time is not the only thing that counts.

All others were presenting more complete, very time consuming works...perhaps it's time to shift my works towards more complete looking projects...well, I tried to and that's why I had tried to make different versions of the tape video and the bookshelf, but I feel like the original versions were better.


The images seen above are of another version of the bookshelf. I built the shelves myself to fit the size of the book better than the IKEA shelves that were used in the previous test. I think visually this is more simple and makes sense to the project, but it loses the interesting aspect of an alternative way of using an already existing object - the shelf.
I'm still not sure if this concept of "alternative..." should be added into the piece, because I feel like it's another statement that I am not intending to address in the exhibition.

Are the IKEA shelves losing the simplicity within work and adding an unnecessary factor
to the piece?

Another question to think about.


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I tried the video piece with both blue wall (and this project was really spontaneous..I saw a blue wall, I was wearing a shirt that was the same color and I happened to be holding two rolls of tape)

I don't like the tape that is hanging from my back at the beginning, because you as an audience can expect what actually happens later in the film. In the second and third run I created a little room with black walls...I like the bumping into the wall part, but perhaps that is also kind of unnecessary....just a blue wall, which is really big, is good enough. "Already existing material" idea again, but if that idea is common in two of the works I it might work better.

I will only do another filming of this for sure, I don't want to be taped ever again.


The wallpaper piece will be investigated further, and new works will be created next week.

OFF TO BERLIN!