Video painting - is it the new road for video and performance? Negation of the repetitive loop but still intimate observation play and new direction

http://www.opengallery.co.uk/video-art-series/gabrielle-le-bayon-portraits-from-the-back-2009

Snippets of the street art festival Sand, Sea and Spray in Blackpool highlight the creative community rising with vigour in the town. Groups such as Aunty Social @_AuntySocial_, SANDnw @SAND_nw, FYCreatives @FYCreatives, The Old Rock Factory @OldRockFactory, Me and FYC @MeandFYC plus Caffe Dolce @Caffe_Dolce are helping create one widely influencing melting creative pot, plus many others I'm sure.

KASHINK

http://www.sandseaandspray.co.uk/about/

Apologies to artists involved...as soon as I can attribute your name to your work I will :D or if anyone can help out grrreat! You're all fab though! Keep it up.

How does the canvas 'hang' - Part 8 - Urban Canvas

Urban Canvas– Street Art

 

It’s interesting how you can see, of course following an evolutionary trajectory, how art’s done a whole three hundred and sixty degree turn from the frescoe era when considering Street Art. Cave painting of Lascaux and Cantabria is essentially a form of underground street art but they just express different visuals, techniques and subject matter in relation to context. Artists such as Banksy use allegory within an urban canvas to convey messages related to socio-political/economical concerns, animal and human rights, anti-war, anti-commercialism and capitalism. Other urban artists such as Shephard Fairy have begun to use typography to create propaganda style artwork. Robert Montgomery’s Echoes of Voices, (2011) substitutes’ billboard advertising with giant text social messages. Such social messages critic the impact of the boards usual secular advertising use, referencing a past ‘canvas’ context to recreate a regenerated more powerful message. French urban artist and photographer JR creates supersize photo-posters pasted into the streets, framing them with spray paint. Interesting how regeneration of the ‘canvas frame’ takes place here to renew or re-style previous non-framed urban art. He produced posters on the wall separating Palestine and Israel of Israelis and Palestinians who work the same jobs, asked to put on a commitment face/pose. The result was people couldn’t tell who was who really, aiming to fuse divisions and aid peace.

How does the canvas 'hang'? Part 6 - The living canvas and performance

The living canvas and performance

Alexa Meade takes the original concept of the canvas and portrait to a whole other new

16 Alexa Meade, Curated 2, (2010).

 Photo of a 8 x 8 x 4ft installation of acrylic  paint

 on found objects and the performance of a live model

level. She’s created a whole new sense of portraiture in which you’re still painted but actually literally (on your skin) in real space rather than in the canvas’ space. The irony being that the human skin is painted in the same style as it would have been on the canvas’s ‘skin’. She plays around with the consciousness’ embedded concept of the process of portraiture, it’s boundaries and subjects, as well as interpretation. Emphasised more by the transferral from an organic, real space portrait performance to a superficial photograph. The portrait’s background which in some works appears very

16 Alexa Meade, Spectacle Installation, (2010). 

8 x 8 x 4ft installation of acrylic paint

 on found objects and the performance of a live model

canvas-esque sits in real space but is now actually physically playing a separate part in the artists and real time’s bigger canvas consciousness. When she takes an archival photograph this shifts the concept as she turns a three-dimensional reality into a two-dimensional photo space. She however doesn’t limit the work to the ‘studio’ or wooden/canvas object references in the background. Her piece Transit, (2009) involves a painted older male photographed within the ephemeral contempo of the tube/subway.

 

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