Showing posts with label Chance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chance. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 February 2013

Artist Book- Image Play in Light


















Image Play in Light... is inkjet printed on 90 gsm short grain 100% recycled book-paper, in a limited edition of 12 copies, hard-cover sewn binding.
96 pages, A5 (148.5 x 210 mm)
(c) Wotadot (Ivan Richards, Ana Vicente)
London, October 2012

Friday, 15 July 2011

My Artwork- TABLE series

New work: The TABLE series (2010- present)

My work encapsulates a process which starts from using/ appropriating what is available to me at the time. Part of the process is sitting down at my table. In this most recent TABLE series, what’s on my table determines the direction of the work I am going to make. Each piece is not planned in advance nor it is perfected. However once started it can lead to other pieces. Created in a particular moment in time, that can be an hour, an afternoon or over a period of a week or weeks, encapsulates the moment when it is created, chancing a result that can be a success or a failure. And by doing so interrogates its artistic value. 



TABLE 9
TABLE 18-23
TABLE 24-35

Sunday, 5 December 2010

SKETCHBOOK 003

Pages from sketchbook dated Oct 2010- Present

Copyright (C) Ana Vicente 2010

Copyright (C) Ana Vicente 2010

Copyright (C) Ana Vicente 2010

Copyright (C) Ana Vicente 2010

Copyright (C) Ana Vicente 2010

Copyright (C) Ana Vicente 2010

Copyright (C) Ana Vicente 2010

Copyright (C) Ana Vicente 2010

Sunday, 7 November 2010

SHOWS- Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Barbican

Nearly ninety
The legacy tour

Merce Cunningham's last work before his death on 26th July 2009, was premiere in London at the Barbican in October. It was first shown in New York on his 90th birthday, 16 April 2009.



This was the first time I saw a live preformance of Cunningham's work. Managed to buy a ticket at the last minute after listening in the radio about the show.

When I arrived at my seat (GG13) the dancers were unexpectedly on stage warming up. Did some quick sketches.
Unforgetable experience.
Full admiration for the dancers who have performed with astonishing beauty.
Perfect combination of movement and sound.

In his work, Cunningham is interested in creating the possibility of a new experience. Through looking and listening, figuring out that it shouldn't look like something else, but instead making us think of what is that we are looking at.


Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Music by John Paul Jones, Takehisa Kosugi, Sonic Youth


Décor by Benedetta Tagliabue


Costumes by Romeo Gigli for io ipse idem


Lighting by Brian MacDevitt


Video by Franc Aleu

http://www.merce.org/



Tuesday, 14 September 2010

READING 003 (and watching/ listening)

CHANCE
Documents of Contemporary Art
Edited by Margaret Iversen
Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited, London
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2010


La Monte Young, Composition 1960 #10, 1960



CHANCE CONVERSATIONS:
An interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage - Walker Art Centre






Sunday, 5 September 2010

QUOTE- Yoko Ono

Beginning of Yoko Ono's Snow Piece (Tape piece III):
Take a tape of the sound of the snow falling. This should be done in the evening. Do not listen to the tape. Cut it and use it as strings to tie gifts with. 
Yoke One stated:
 "The only sound that exists to me is the sound of the mind. My works are only to induce music of the mind in people.' ...'There is a wind that never dies.'... 
 The wind is the moving mind, the mind that according to John Cage, 'is part of the air',the mind that is able to transcend 'the falsehood of consciousness' and fly. (Jacqueline Baas, The Sound of the Mind, 2005. Published in Chance, Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Margaret Iversen, published by The Whitechapel Gallery)