FINAL WORK AND ARTIST STATEMENT

Brianna Speight

ARTIST STATEMENT

COLOUR WHEEL

INTENTIONS

Colour Wheel is an idea that embodies the successes of my development process in Action Stations. It includes instruction, the intentions of humour and connection and a visual stimulation. The instruction reads – Form a line in order of height, turn that line into a circle – the person standing opposite you is your complimentary height. Ultimately, the idea of Colour Wheel is to make people feel connected.

DEVELOPMENT

The starting point involved five movements, exploring each through action and documentation. I focused on my everyday movements, I included commuting, communicating, learning, eating and dancing. I found communication fascinating to ponder, the exchange of ideas, and the back and forth dialogue, sending and receiving information - it is this process of connecting that became my point of departure.

I explored dialogue by conducting experiments that involved instructions. Initially I was interested in photographic responses via disposable cameras and social media outlets (snapchat). I disliked that each response did not have the ability to connect to the next response. After more experimentation I looked to how my ideas had developed and what elements of my process still remained relevant. I drew on my artist research to engage in the ideas put forward by Yoko Ono, David Shrigley and Erwin Wurm. I refined my ideas and came to the conclusion that my final work needed to involve a simultaneous group action.

REFLECTION

Colour Wheel was presented in class and in my opinion it was not overly successful. I think that if the instructions were followed under different circumstances it might have been more effective. As I was directing the instruction it failed to let people naturally wonder and it was difficult to present this to a group of people that already knew each other. However, it was interesting to see how people interacted in letting the event unfold. I enjoyed that the experience was the work and that the people created the line that I have been so fervent in including to my every practice.

I found it difficult presenting a final work to the class that was coherent with the intentions of my developed ideas. So what I would have done differently is the presentation to the class. Instead of bringing my ideas to unfold in the wrong context, I should have recorded people’s responses in the right context and presented a video to the class to show the work that I had been doing.

Overall I feel successful in completing this assignment, I pushed my ideas and found myself doing new things. By exploring the movement of communication I have discovered what is important to me in the every day. Which is that when ideas and experiences are exchanged via means of communication, understanding what’s occurring outside of one’s own existence broadens and the result is feeling more connected to the fluctuation of Life.