Thursday, January 19, 2012

Mead is a wine made entirely from fermented honey. The Vikings believed it to be an aphrodisiac. The bridegroom would drink mead for a month after his wedding day to ensure virility, and this became known as the HONEY-MONTH which later evolved into the word "HONEY MOON"

Sunday, January 8, 2012


Proverbs of Hendyng, a manuscript from some time before 1325, includes the advice:
Ȝeue þi cunte to cunnig and craue affetir wedding.
(Give your cunt wisely and make (your) demands after the wedding.) 

Friday, December 16, 2011

EXERCISE 2 - Invasion


In this exercise you are asked to invade a domestic space with elements that are foreign to it. You will
build up a quantity of materials to develop an installation that aims at subverting the use of a familiar
environment.

EXERCISE 1 - Obstruction


In this exercise you are asked to choose a passage or a threshold within a domestic or private space in which you will set up an installation that operates as an obstruction. Installations can lead you to redefine known spaces and generate fresh possibilities for how they are used and experienced.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

While creating woman, God promised men that good and obedient ones would be found in all corners of the world. 

Then He made the earth round.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011


“Paradise under the Ceiling” envisages the establishment of a paradisiacal world in one’s own room. And paradise not in a figurative sense, but in the most literal, real sense of that word. Usual theories and notions of space assign it to some worlds that are remote in time and place, inaccessible to our real presence, worlds about which we can only dream and guess, but in reality it is impossible to see them: they exist too high and far away, if they exist at all.
(Kabakov, E & I 1998, 24)

Saturday, December 3, 2011

notes from unit Study Guide


Working method: How to develop your ideas

1. Primary Research: Jot down ideas and find relevant artists and artwork. Read, observe, take notes, take photos, brainstorm, and make preliminary sketches. Record your initial ideas and thoughts in your visual diary.

2. Applied Research: Make detailed sketches, make maquettes (small scale models), sample materials, take
measurements, experiment, explore and visually investigate your ideas through materials and processes.  Document the outcomes in your visual diary.

3. Idea Development: Based on steps 1 and 2, re-assess your ideas. Use your visual diary to note possible variations to form, size, or materials or other ways to enhance the work. If necessary repeat either of the first
two steps again.

4. Resolution: Construct the work and document it. Your final resolve for the project could be a starting point to be developed further at a later time.


Documentation of your work



Context – How does the environment in which you place your work effect its meaning? For example
an object will read differently when placed on sand than on a concrete floor. If what you produce
does not need to be contextualised (i.e. it requires a white space) choose/create an environment free of
visual interference.

Format – choose a medium appropriate for the documentation of your work (e.g. video, slide,
photographs, digital media, etc.). Consider various possibilities, as your first choice of media may not
necessarily be the most effective. For example video as the immediate choice for documenting a
performance may not necessarily be as effective as a series of still photographs.

Editing - your documentation should clearly describe your work. Think about the editing process and
do not submit all your documentation; if two images give the same information about the work then
only include one.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith - BAB-0206-022-12

Storm in a teacup

Storm in a teacup (in British English), tempest in a teapot (in American English) is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.[1] 


Both the American and British phrases are long preceded by Cicero's Latin "Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo".[5] The phrase, translated literally, reads: "He was stirring up waves in a ladle".

Saturday, November 26, 2011

impetus


VSW26 OBJECTS & IDEAS: installation


Installation art changes the way we view art by shifting the traditional relationship between viewer, artwork and context; rather than positioning the viewer and space as passive in relation to the art object. Installation Art creates a dynamic interaction between the three elements.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Narrator: Hector was not forgiven. Not yet. Not inside her. But Aisha would forgive Hector, as Hector would forgive her. One day. She knew that.
Maybe that's what marriage was, at it's core it was negotiation. It was surrender. 
The Slap - Episode 7 Aisha

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Ghada Abdel Aal

Ghada_in_a_book_booth
Ghada Abdel Aal, Egyptian pharmacist and author of “I Want to Get Married!”
“A Girl got nothing but her husband’s house”
Egyptian proverb. 

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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