Summer Show Preview 2009A chair upholstered in human hair,
Jewellery inspired by the George Dubya shoe -throwing and, erm, a man
with scissors up his nose... it can only be The Cass Summer Show.
The Cass is a hive of activity as students and staff work
together to deliver a mammoth exhibition of work. We're delighted to
offer a brief preview of some of the work that you will be able to see
from June 10th.
On The Sublime
Dolores De Sade, BA(Hons) Fine Art
Foyer Gallery, Central House
Enter the unusual golf course landscapes evoked by Dolores' Zinc
Etchings or enjoy her photographic 'toilet' triptych on the 3rd Floor.
"This work could be set anywhere. It describes an imagined and impossible
space that can never be entirely visible. This imagination of another place
creates an exotic Other that cannot be reached. The perceived need to
understand such a place becomes more impossible with each imagining.
However, the impetuous to imagine new places, new journeys, is not abated by
the failure to ever really reach these places. It is as if the need to
create the Other is the real desire. We are trapped in a game, the point of
which is to negate its own point.
The pictures, stories and souvenirs that we bring back from these journeys
can only ever be a record of the failure to reach the imagined destination,
of the obscured vision with which each of us view the world and the distance
between this and somebody else’s reality. And of the time spent in such
undertakings."
Artist's body of work, Dolores De Sade
Human Behaviour
Eda Kirdag, 'Cut-Head', BA (Hons) Graphic Design
6th Floor Commercial Road
"Human behavior is the collection of behaviors exhibited by
human beings and influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values,
ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion and/or
genetics".
The work on display in Human Behaviour consists of extracts and
selections from the 3rd Year BA (Hons) Graphic Design Final Major
Project [triple module] -where students are encouraged to write,
research and carry out their own brief in order to create a
‘significant body of work’.
Most of the work relates - directly or indirectly - to aspects of
‘Human Behaviour’- how the human animal acts, thinks and operates in
the world with graphic design - the manipulation of image, typography
and sound - being one of the major mediums through which this
interaction is expressed.
Themes include sexuality and film, Rimbaud’s poetry and religion,
our complicity and resistance to consumer culture, dream-life and
surrealism, dating and origami, Pseudo-Anglicisms, typography and the
aesthetics of failure, how to tell a lie, virtual avatars, Concrete and
Sound poetry, Urban Fairytales, vanishing points, ‘a highway code’ for
pedestrians, the repetition of everyday life and much more besides.
These themes are explored through typography, print, motion-pieces, packaging, illustration, conceptual thinking and identity.
‘Those Shoes You’re In Today’
Rachel Terry, BA (Hons ) Silversmithing and Jewellery
Central House
Shoes as objects of protest catapulted into the headlines in
December 2008 when the now famous Shiite Iraqi journalist, Muntazer al
- Zaidi, threw shoes at President George Bush during a press conference
in response to the thousands of Iraqi deaths caused by the 2003 US led
invasion of Iraq. Throwing shoes is a deep insult in the Arab world.
This story has been the catalyst of Those Shoes You’re In Today’.
Taking inspiration from the media shoe story, a range of disused and
dilapidated shoes will be created using influences from the
idiosyncratic behaviours of the people that may have owned the
footwear. Through their distinctive marks, style and era, each shoe
leads you to speculate about the story behind it, and the particular
gait and activities of their owner.
‘What about those shoes you’re in today, they’ll do no good on the bridges you’ve burned along the way’. Jack Johnson.
Hair Chair
Amy Jameson, FdA Furniture Design
The Cass Gallery Commercial Road
Amy Jameson, who previously gave us the blood inspired 'Vessel'
table delivers a chair upholstered with an unusual material- Human
Hair, ethically sourced of course.
Movies and Sound
Showing this week in 5.1 surround sound, a selection of films by students on the BA (Hons) Music Technology (Sound for Media) course, including Deception, Blank, Red and Exchange.
Central House
Red
Directed by Sandra Kazlauskaite, Maria Mysiak & Daniel Beck.
The story traces the inner world of a girl named ‘Red’ and follows
her through a strange house and it's different rooms that she
accidentally happened to appear in.
Each room represents a different world, their presence and
exterior perspectives, haunting characters and disturbing acousmatic
sounds underline a constant feeling of loss and sadness
Exchange
Directed by Gabriel Peti, Ivan Onek, Navy Wollweber, Alexis Blondel, Miroslav Kulaga & Patrick Odur.
Alice, the protagonist of the story, is a research student
persuading Lottie, her friend to take part in a flat-swap, not knowing
of the psychological tension that this will create for her yet.
Deception
Directed by Eliza Roguska, Jack Everitt, Maximus Burnham, Mustafa Erozkal & Antonio Telmo.
A notorious liar going in circles.
Blank
Directed by Dimitrios Kipouros, Hugo Lopez, Andrew Perry, Tom Ross, Paul Bardsley.
The movie is a (futuristic) vision on how the government of a
capitalist society controls it's people with medical
administration, managing political, economical and social factors. If
you choose to stop accepting this medication, society will stop
accepting you.
Watch Exchange on YouTube. Weirdly, not the same Exchange that's showing this week, but hey ho!
Dragon
Anna Molla, BA (Hons) Design
Commercial Road
As part of the third year module Work Placement on BA Design,
Anna’s internship was for a Special Effects company in Germany, where
she learnt to use diverse modelling techniques and varying materials to
recreate Special Effects, ‘…we were encouraged to participate in the
actual creation of Special Effects's pieces and whenever idle to chose
and execute a project of our own, I chose to develop my sculpting
skills using special brown sculpting clay called TecCaly…’
The body of work was established around: Dragons - terrifying
winged predators never existed in real life, but what if they had?
Without using CGI special effects develop an artistic impression of
these mythical beasts.
Ripping Stuff!
Stephanie Postbechild, BA (Hons) Design
Commercial Road
'Mask', a photo-manipulation piece originally intended to explore
'imperfections within plastic surgery’.
Challenging perceptions of Islam
Ahmet Barut, BA (Hons) Design
Commercial Road
The Misunderstood Religion of Islam an abrasive typographic journey
that factually dispels the accumulated misunderstood religious beliefs.
Instruments of the Future
Sonikube
Ayumi Kubota, BSc (Hons) Music Technology (Audio Systems)
6th Floor Commercial Road
Enter a world of innovative and experimental music technology
created by graduating BSc (Hons) Music Technology (Audio Systems)
students.
See video Sonikube.
Feast of Films
BA (Hons) Film and Broadcast Production
Central House
On Preview Night only there will be a screening of drama and documentary productions by Film and Broadcast students including:
The Making of Robin
A spoof tale about student film makers.
The Tipping Point
A film focusing on an abusive relationship.
Haringey
An examination of youth workers tackling knife crime.
Peace of Soul
A drama about a collector of souls.
Watch on YouTube:
A trailer for The Tipping Point
The film The Making of Robin
Download the Film & Broadcast Production Showcase brochure
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