Presentation

After the presentation I got an interesting feedback that made me think which idea should I choose. One of the teachers said that drawing or writing for people might be too complicated as they feel too insecure (especially drawing). Also, people may draw some inappropriate images too. That is why I am going for the ribbons idea.

Furthermore, I started to glue paper mache on my bamboo frame. It looks quite nice but I was afraid that the frame is too weak. After 5th layer of paper that worry was confirmed by my costume collapsing from a heavy wight (water and glue). It is not an unrecoverable problem - I can easily glue more paper on areas that collapsed to return my costume to its round shape - it just means more work for me.

Going back

I just got my exercise ball delivered and even though I bought the biggest one that exists (75cm) it's way too small for what I imagined. That's why I am going back to my first idea of how to make a round shaped costume - bamboo sticks.

These sticks are quite short and because of that I taped 4 of them one to another to make a bigger circles. Then I taped one circle to another :

I needed to make this frame more secure so it could hold a heavy weighting paper with glue :

Now I am waiting for my 1l PVA glue delivery so I could start to put paper mache on top of my frame. 

Thinking about what am I going to do

After tutorials I had two ideas and I did not knew witch one to choose so I drew my thoughts about what would I actually do in a public (first idea in black frames and the second one in red).

After tutorials

After tutorials we came up with more than a few ideas; some of which will work whilst others are unlikely to:

• If my costume would be patterned, then I could have some pastels with me and try to make my  'brother stones' look more like me. This idea has two problems : it lacks interaction with people around me; I don't know if Birmingham City Council would be happy with me drawing on their monuments.
• Have some markers, paints etc. attached to me and ask people to write or draw something on my gray costume 'to make it more colorful'.
• On my gray stone costume I would have lots of colorful ribbons with loose ends then I would ask people to pull these ribbons out and take one with them. That would leave me with only the gray costume on. 

The last two ideas are really nice and I could make them both work. But I believe that second one is somehow more interesting, at least to me. 

How am I going to make round shaped stone costume:

I thought that I could use bamboo sticks (witch are really bendable) to create round shape and then glue lots of papers on top. But Dem offered me another idea - to bay an exercise ball and glue paper mache on top.

So I ordered one online on Monday but it still haven't came.

Sketching

Sketch of my idea for this project :

Playing with Photoshop :

A bit of a planing what the beginning of my video should look like :

At the moment, I am thinking how my costume should look like. Exactly the same as other stones ?

Or should I take patterns from my surroundings and draw them on the surface of my costume ?

Costume would look something like this :

I am looking forward to the tutorials that we are going to have in our university this Monday. I will ask these questions that I have and maybe reach a decision at the and of the day.  

First Idea

The first idea came to me after the first lesson in Margaret street on my way to the bus station. I was in Victoria square and I thought that I could work with this place :

My idea was to create a costume that looked like one of these stones. In a video I would walk for 3 minutes

till I reach the stones and then for 50 second just do some random stuff that you would not expect from these round stones. Just a few simple actions like siting on one :

walk among the stones :

and just play with the surroundings:

These actions may seem really simple but I believe they will leave a strong impression on people around me. Sitting and walking and jumping around are simple actions for human beings not stones, that's why I think this will look weird, which is one of the goals for this project.

Research 'Inspiring pictures'

Paper_bag_by_iwaisan

closet_by_directionsforpest

Glamour_by_blackeri

Skin_Deep_by_arcipello

Allan Grant - Eames Toy YQT, March 1951

Mark Segal × Marcelina Sowa & Suzanne Diaz - Vogue Paris October 2006 - Un Conte D'Hiver - 008

Mary Mattingly - NOMADOGRAPHIES - In the Navel of the Moon, 2008

Meryl Donoghue - Guilt Is A Terrible Ghost. 

Meryl Donoghue - Regrettee

Steven Kenny - Mademoiselle Chanterelle

Project number three

We see someone wearing a succession of body sculptures (is it fashion? art? architecture?) as they walk through the city and prompt a variety of responses from the’ Normal People’.

When we work in the bubble of an art school, it's easy for us to forget the world outside and how our work might be perceived by those who have not encountered similar things before.

We are going to take our work outside.

Starting at the Margaret Street, School of Art, walk, run, slide, skate or use an alternative mode of locomotion for 3 minutes 50 seconds (the length of the music video).

The place where you find yourself at the end of that time period is the place you will locate your work.

The assignment is:

 Construct and ultimately wear a body sculpture that responds to and in some way fits your location, whilst at the same time mis-fitting people's expectations of what they might encounter in that place. Find a niche or other point of leverage at your location for your construction to echo - a bit like the guy in the video - the costumes echo the things that are thrown at him. 

You will be wearing your work, so you also need to consider how it relates to your body and how you will move whilst wearing it.

You will document the process of arriving at your location, finding the bit to ‘riff off’, constructing your attire and any interactions that arise out of you and your costume inhabiting your location.