Failed Dwarf Paint

"There is a danger that the art, like other aspects of control technology, will only serve to dull our senses and dampen our indignation"






Fabricate life as imitating art. An embodiment of eros and loss.

Life as control technology:

film walking styles
slang
laughing
violence patterns

create transfers of each pattern and style and cut out to imitate dress form.







BBC's " Warching Art Imitate Life":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6564115.stm

Acrylic-cake: bake for one semester.

A rough draft of a yummy cake.mmmm.

Materials:
acrylic-paint
buttons
pink nylon thread
canvas
super glue

Found some neat kinds of cakes
using terra cotta as a base: http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cda/article_print/0,1983,HGTV_3269_4341621_ARTICLE-DETAIL-PRINT,00.html

sculptor Bolek Niedzwiecki made cakes using acrylicpaint:
http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

StethoPoem: a bretonian accessory (for Kuya on his way to medskool)

Stethoscope that plays poetry.

check out:
http://www.thinklabsmedical.com/
http://www.thinklabsmedical.com/heart-sounds.html

called:1(800)988-1088 to see if the probe or digital control system could be replaced by a digital audio device that would play poetry or a recording of Hair's heartbeat or both her poem & heartbeat at the same time.

without getting into too much detail
check out:
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/FinalProjects/s2004/bcr5/index.htm
if anyone could display their heartrate on a t.v., it'd be interesting to see it superimposed over an ongoing weather channel or tvshow.

I don't want to but,
I'm beginning to see my cat
as a kind of textile, changing
what it means to be a cat and
the way she's been perceived as
'a cat'. She begins and ends
somewhere, though not sure where,
walking throughout the room,
a clause between exterior-fur
and how far one could go
looking into her eyes; green,
another field I am afraid there is
nothing inside her, but a personality
I'm not even sure is relevant
to an interior sentence.

Thread of Forgetting

Edited in a way to
assist the viewer to forget
entirely through speed acceleration,
movement & lack of footage.

Materials:
spool of metallic thread
video-camera

Process:
Left-hand screen:
single long shot of
metallic thread unravelling
until it ends.
Right-hand screen:
images from someone's life
flashing until the thread ends.

Sound options/al: debussy,poem recitation, rain.

Continuity of Metallic Thread--->Memory--->Interrupted frames= narrative of forgetfulness

check out: "Moments in Time: One Narration & Slowness", by Susanne Gaensheimer Leubachhaus/Munchen.

"snapshots from the passing reality & string them on a becoming.." h.bergson.

The speed of representing speed; thread as a line of forgetting while in attempt to preserve and embroider itself.

soon, this will be forgotten.

Fabric T.V.: friday nights on Channel H&F network.

Video Stills of:
corduroy
polyester
velvet
chiffon
tussah silk
carpet
hemp
ramie
peau de soie
donegal
flannel
loden fabric
tartan
tweed
virgin wool
oxford
gauze
seersucker

www.fabrics.net/fabricsr.aspx
Find 18 kinds of vocal tones & inflections that corresponds to every type of fabric.

Auditions: Open screening for anyone interested in donating their voice to a fabricated cause.

Materials:
18 t.v. monitors & headphones
18 different voices in separate monologue
Or 1 t.v. monitor & headphone with 18 channels
Each texture of the voice corresponds to each fabric,
voices may also be interchangeable

Process:
1 segment lasts 3 min.
OR as large projection in theatre

You Mean, I get to listen to Run DMC & strut a the same time?

This deserves the 2nd runner up of the "Oh no sheh dedn't" Award.

check out:"Sonic Fabric" by Alyce Santoro


Sonic fabric emits sound when you run a tape head (the little thingy inside the
tape deck that touches the tape) over it. Because the tape retains its magnetic
quality through the weaving process, it acts as a big wide band of tape.

Polaroid Dress: 1-D movement couture

Dress-montage of polaroid pictures.
Snapshots of a fabric at various angles.
Then photos arranged as a dress
in accord to give movement.

Materials:
-polaroid camera
-several fabrics, varying in texture & color
-david hockney
-model

Process:
try it on