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)

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

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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)

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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)

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fake crack in pedestal, real crack in floor.

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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.

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just looking around.

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setting up and looking around.

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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.