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Mitosis - art and science collaboration research

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As part of my Collaborative project i intent to go in to schools and spend time watching demonstrations in science, interacting with the children and asking them to fill out a questionnaire in order to get some general opinions of how important science is seen in young people today. Whilst doing my research i stumbled upon this website of mitosis animations created by young children and found it very interesting and unique to their own thought process.

Recent Video of my current work

Jerszy Seymour - Amateur Workshop 2010

(Viewing at the gallery of modern and contemporary art, Centre Pompidou, Paris)

'Amateur Workshop' forms part of the 'Volcano Projects" series, in which the volcano stands for the eruption of creative energy, is a metaphor for the studio or even the whole collective space of reflection and discussion. Conceived by designer Jerszy Seymour, this installation is the outcome of a performance that offered ' Amateurs' - the amateurs being understood as "lover, Appassionto...non-professional as a way of being" - the possibility of meeting and creating. It makes visible the process of fabrication of the work in constant movement that the coalition of the visitor - 'Amateurs was prompted to construct, assambling pieces of wood and wax to make chairs on which they could sit to reflect together, to talk, to contemplate their surroundings. 

Joseph Beuys

Plight, 1985, (Gallery viewing Centre pompidou, Paris)

This environment is a late work by Joseph Beuys, conceived in 1985 for the Anthony D' Offay gallery in London. The presentation here exactly reproduces the original installation. Plight refers to a precise event: to dampen the sounds of building work next door, Beuys has promised the gallerist a work that opposed silence to sound. The installation consists of two spaces lined with thick rolls of felt. Once inside, the visitor experiences a sense of warmth and an ambivalent sense of isolation or insulation, of being both protected and cut off from the world. In Absorbing sound the felt renders even more incongruous the presence of a silent grand piano, on which lies a blackboard and a thermometer. The ambivalence and complexity of the work are reflected in its very title, which evokes, ideas of danger and constraint, and also obligation, and with it promise.

Niki De Saint Phalle - viewing at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Crucifixtion, 1965


This sculpture belongs to period in Niki De Saint Phalles career: The movement in the 1960's, when the character of "nana" becomes the central figure of her oeuvre. Her first characters were created in paper-mache and fabric and then - as with this work- in painted polyester, a material which allows a richer use of colours. Designed to be hung from the ceiling, this giant and weirdly proportioned doll, decked out in suspender belt and curlers like some grotesque emblem of femininity, is one of arts most virulent and sarcastic commentaries on the female condition. Exposed in the crudest and most obscene nudity, crucified in its sexual identity, this archetypal figure is a vehement critique of the conventional representation of women.

I found this piece incredibly powerful immediately grabbing my attention.As i strained my neck up to behold the fantastic figures situated on the upper torso of this fantastical 'women' i was overcome by intrigue, wishing 'if i was only that little bit taller.'