Progress

I have researched in the library about different artists that could inspire my practice and also relate to my dissertation subject - I am considering reviewing my dissertation subject to something more relevant to my current practice. However, I am not too concerned about the change of subject as I believe that as the research develops for my practice context/themes so will be dissertation research - it will be linked and work along side.

The themes for my practice are varied but all linked with the themes of psychological concepts. I am greatly interested in the human condition. But I need to explore what I mean by that - what area I want to focus on as it is such a vast subject. I shall use my weekend to play with art, explore what concepts I want to portray and what elements of the human condition I want to exemplify and create a atmosphere for the audience to be drawn into.

The idea of literally emptying a mind (my mind) and dragging the audience into its world is an exciting thought for me - but in a way that can be related to, a sense of narrative and universal identification. Narratives are important to me - when looking at my creative writing which is an important element to my art practice and to my life. I want to use the words to create spontaneous narratives, words and phrases that express particular emotions or scenes. Even the sense of senselessness or complete confusion would be interesting to work with - this relates to the tutorial I had, where I had advice in using my writing to create works in a similar way to David Bowie (in his glory days) where I can choose fragments of my writing at random to form poems.

Fragmented work. This is an important concept for me to explore. All through my art development I have been interested in creating fragmented work, sections of unfinished or damaged pieces that reflect a sense of something missing - perhaps the missing thing is the audience and their involvement in the work.
I want to create a scene/atmosphere that is full of fragmented pieces, different things that can be experienced by a spectator. Something that will draw them in and fill them with a sense of enclosure - change something in them ...but what???! I need to figure out what it is I want to portray and invest into the audience. I guess the idea of a fragmented mind and fractured logic is something that I find most interesting - but also how it is universal. How it can apply to anyone - I want to tell the audience what they should be experiencing but also let them interpret the piece(s) as they want on a personal level.

Bill Viola is an artist that works with universal themes that an audience can identify with e.g. life and death etc. I want to explore themes of my own that are universal and can be related to in my practice. Emotions and experiences that either have been experienced by the audience or that are universally human and can touch/effect people in different ways.