Blog set up

I thought it might be nice to create a space where we can post our creative and conceptual ideas - a kind of forum where you can upload images, note your influences, link to websites that may be of interest... that kind of thing.

And in the spirit of that I thought I'd add some links here that are fuelling some of my ideas and thoughts for the project.

MATTHEW BARNEY - THE CREMASTER CYCLE.

Matthew Barney is an artist and sculptor whose sometimes absurd video pieces cross the boundaries between performance, installation and arthouse film (not even entirely sure that this is what you would call it).

www.cremaster.net is the site for Barney's The Cremaster Cycle a video art work extravaganza that takes over 10 hours to sit through. I saw it in Melboure and fell in love with the costumes, the pace and the overall surrealness of the video. Check out the site for a sense of the Barney aesthetic and the unique characters and costumes.

PETER GREENAWAY - WRITING TO VERMEER

I had to watch Greenaway film after Greenaway film at University, probably as a result of his somewhat cross-disciplinary approach to both art and film making (his done everything from painting to public art work to film making to opera). This link to his official site http://www.petergreenawayevents.com/petergreenaway.html gives you a bit of an overview of his work. Not sure how many stills from films are on here but some could be found by doing a search of his name.

BILL VIOLA - is an artist I think I spoke of breifly once. He did an amazing installation of bodies being submerged under water (in slow motion) that was on show at the National Gallery of Australia last year. His website is http://www.billviola.com/ and the work I refer to is called five angels for the millenium, some stills of which can be found here: http://www.billviola.com/bibliogr.htm