Is it working?: Installations and Experimental Printmaking

Author	Tala, Alexia
Title	Installations and experimental printmaking / Alexia Tala
Published	London : A. & C. Black, c2009

John Hitchcock

They are moving their feet--but nobody's dancing, John Hitchcock, 2007, large-scale variable size screenprint action

David Rhys Jones

Charles Baudelaire's concept of 'flaneur', the 'detached observer of the modern metropolis' p25

Elizabeth Peer

Works with memory.

"Family photo albums record both preservation and decay, lies and truth." (Peer, p27)

More on her in another post.

John Hitchcock (again)

Interactive installations

grew up near a military base

Belkis Ramirez

Dominican female migration to Europe for prostitution to support their families

Sexual exploitation

at once aggressors and victims

viewer can walk among the work, feeling part of it.

Alexia Tala

Influences by Gaston Bachelard's book 'The Poetics of Space'

built environment, urban city, society

Alexia Tala, First Memory (detail), 2008, woodcut moulded onto plaster

autobiographical memory within society

collected narratives of people's earliest memories, categorised these by feelings which make up the words on the sculptures. A book in the gallery displayed the memories for visitors to read

Zoe Schieppati-Emery

"idea of trying to capture and treasure a moment, the essence of a person and/or emotion, attempting to make substance of or represent something which, of its very nature, is transient" (p70)

life, death, the fragility of the human body

Jars filled with oil in reference to scientific preservation and embalming

Juan Castillo

Art practise based on studying society

Interviews with local people about their dreams (aspirations/hopes and sleeping dreams). Interviews happened in living rooms and the Castilllo also photographed their house fronts and most beloved possession.