AADK Spain Residency – Day Six, Tuesday 5h Sept

Studio day

After the hike up the hill yesterday, a bit of a rest day today staying in the Centro Negro. With the poor air quality and blowing my nose ever 10 minutes, today was a good day for staying indoors. It was spent writing up the journal, researching the history of the local area and thinking about new directions for developing work. I feel that I am leaving behind the single descriptor of ‘sculpture’ or ‘sculptor’ and more often describing myself as ‘multi-disciplinary’. I find this is a more comfortable ‘label’, as it avoids me having to always answer the question ‘what materials do you work with’ when telling someone that I work in sculpture. It’s no secret that I have a strong interest in multi-media, having presented video installations for both my undergraduate and postgraduate shows. I was put off for a while after finishing postgraduate study because I created a single channel edit of the 5 channel postgraduate final piece video installation and submitted this to about a dozen short film festivals around the world. 

 
Unfortunately it didn’t get selected for any of them and taught me a lesson in the difference between ‘film making’ and ‘artists films’, in the sense that one is quite un-structured (artists films) and the other is structured (film making). These days we have a lot more descriptors for artists films and have moved on from the ‘video art’ label. Work is described as ‘moving image work’, a one size fits all description really. The one thing that I do really enjoy is watching moving image work whenever I visit an exhibition. It takes me somewhere else that a static piece of work i.e. painting or sculpture can’t take me.
 
I made a very simple sketch showing the space with 3 projectors:
 
 

 

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