16 January 2005

Class Pocock Winter Semester 2005


The overwhelming image in the minds of the students was photographic. Of course objects work well installed alongside photoworks. Themes spanned process art ideas - many of the photos too small to see here embody works constructed in and deconstructing natural spaces.
Keyword this semester - algoRYTHMICs.



above:
hand-drawn diagrams on chair cut and photo image (left)
branch balls and their impossible acts in nature caught by a camera
(center left)
in a hallway, painted black, black on black objects, some painted as
well, and a a lily white-skinned model in a black chiffon gown. kitsch,
mannerism and the baroque. (center top)
painted plaster, geometrically alive, on the floor (right)



above:
meat and flowers (on the wall)
barbie bed (including klaus barbie)



above:
photo-emulsion images of trees on plaster-cast earlobes. small test scraps swept up neatly below. (right)
installing meat and flower photos (background)



above:
general view, works not mentioned yet:
double pedestal, there is a crack on the floor that meets the bottom edge of the bottom pedestal. in pencil it continues trompe l'oeil up the white surface of the pedestal. (center left)
photos of pink fake fungus on various tree trunks in landscape settings, and other perturbations of color and form in nature recorded in photo grouping framed on the wall (center back)



above:
sandra boxes, stitched latex and fabric-covered hand-made boxes, each containing a secret held by various students with the same name, sandra, filed on self-made 'officey ' plexi shelves suspended from above. (center)



above:
fake crack in pedestal, real crack in floor.



above:
gateway of train track ties, painted arrhythmically, all bolt holes stuffed with blue plastic bag bits, ash on the floor with student artists' footprints, a tape and ash giant crustacean-like shell by last gate.



above:
just looking around.



above:
setting up and looking around.



above:
connecting tape sculpture to an IV drip to be mounted above.


The semester came to a pre-mature end as the workspace allotted was double booked. The exhibition therefore and unfortunately never got finished. Maybe it's good that a semester concerning process got cut
short and remained itself in process.


Process art is never done. Perhaps its purpose it to remain expectant and so do we.



Stefan Behnke - Schon Hart und Wahr

Think Pink!



schonhartundwahr, originally uploaded by con10t.

Installation, pink neon heartbeat, wall text, blue cinema seats, drawings, mixed media 2005



pinkneonbeatwall, originally uploaded by con10t.


pinkneonbeat, originally uploaded by con10t.


signature2, originally uploaded by con10t.

12 January 2005

Class Pocock Julia Karst Altered Landscapes 2005

The images of Julia Karst translate online quite well. I have taken the liberty to feature a few color images removed from their series. Each image interjects a 'fake' or unnatural color and form onto the Black Forest winter landscape. Romantic, painterly, the light is remarkable, especially as she used a pocket digital camera.
The project developed from her attention to one tree last semester which she saw and with white lime painted up with an ornamental grammar reminiscent of aboriginal art and costume. This semester she worked with objects that removed themselves from the surface of things, and began to inhabit the landscape. They do not operate with the cleverness so often apparent in photo 'land' art. Julia Karst manages to avoid the monumentalism of that genre, as practised by Andy Goldsworthy, and simply puncuate in a chromoluminist manner, her landscapes.

Julia Karst Altered Landscapes 2005

Julia Karst Altered Landscapes 2005

Julia Karst Altered Landscapes 2005


Julia Karst Altered Landscapes 2005

Julia Karst Altered Landscapes 2005

Julia Karst Altered Landscapes 2005

Julia Karst produced this project (3 scenes, 24 images) one day a week for one semester (14 weeks) in photography. Good work.

From 2004, white lime (harmless) tree painting.

JuliaKarst2004.jpg

02 January 2005

Prof Pocock Workshop Kabul



News Article

That's me in the center wearing a checkered studio shirt. The Canadian Ambassador is to the right of me along with Dean Faryad of the Fine Art Faculty University of Kabul. Surrounding us are the workshops students. On the table to the left our media workstation, to the right, and the table on which the photographer is standing our object-making work area.

June 2004 with a grant from External Affairs Canada, Prof. Pocock traveled to the University of Kabul, Afghanistan, where he gave a media and art workshop "Landscape and Memory" with male and female students. He was also happy to be able to donate his S-VHS video camera, DV video camera, digital photography camera, software and books. The Apple G4 powerbook donated by the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe Germany, he was able to install with a Farci (Persian) Wiki Content Management System, thanks to open source software!