THE VESSEL / RECEPTACLE PROJECT

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1 PROJECT 1

2 THE VESSEL / RECEPTACLE PROJECT Design an object. It can be made of anything or any combination of materials. It will be semi-functional in the following way: it will hold the weight of and/or in someway encapsulate. Fill in the blank by selecting a Thing you draw from a bag in class.

3 Examples: I draw orange so I create a very specific bowl made just for an orange. I select human, so I build a chair. I draw air out of the hat, I make a balloon. (I don t recommend making bowls or chairs). Your sculpture does not need to fully cover your object, but it should in some way hold / encapsulate it and should pass a weight-bearing test or perhaps could in someway creatively avoid the weighttest

4 PICK YOUR THINGY! 5:00 min TRADE SESSION

5 GET TO KNOW YOUR THING What is it? What does it weigh? What is it made of? How big is it? What is its temperature? What does it feel like? What does it look like? What other material properties does it have? Take into consideration what your selected item is, what it does, what it weighs, what material it is made of, what its scale is, what its inherent properties are, and from there determine the properties of your receptacle/vessel for it. Your piece shouldn't really work for anything else, but be specific to your Thing. Think about weight, scale, negative space, and function. Think about your Thing. What form does it take? What does it look like? What is it used for or how to people relate to it? What is its relationship to an object that would hold it or in some way sit beneath it?

6 What about functional properties? What does it do? What is it for? How do people relate to it? How do you want people to relate to it? How could it relate to the world? How could you change it? What sort of relationship to it do you want to have? What relationship do you want your audience / users to have?

7 TONIGHT / TOMORROW: GO GET YOUR THING! DUE WEDS: DRAW PLANS FOR PROJECT Hand drawings, photoshop, illustrator, Maya, up to you, the more the better! Should include multiple drawings for more than one idea / outcome Multiple perspectives, measurements, material properties, cost, description PROJECT DUE: OCT. 18 Stage your final installation with both your piece and Thing How has this thing been newly activated by the vessel / receptacle? Has it been enhanced, enlivened, hidden, made useless? What qualities have you drawn out? What is the relationship between the vessel and the thing? Does this change the relationship the audience / user has to the thing? How does your piece change the thing it has been made for? Draw them by hand, or in photoshop or illustrator, up to you Plans for Project I should include multiple drawings for possibly more than one idea / outcome, also drawings of possible objects to build / make from more than one perspective. More drawings are better than good drawings! Plans should also include measurements / properties of your Thing and the proposal for your object, a list of possible materials and cost of those materials, list of themes, and if possible, a description / title. Stage your final installation with both your piece and the Thing. (If you can make alterations to the Thing in some way that is possible that enhances your installation, you can do that as long as a person could still call the Thing that Thing). How has your Thing been newly activated, enhanced? What qualities of it have you drawn out? How does your piece change the Thing it has been made for?

8 Example from design books - chair, cup, bowl Iranian vessel, B.C. first animation

9 Arare Teapot s to present

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22 URNS, CASKETS, BEDS, CHAIRS

23 George brecht Water Yam cards for fluxus happenings Event scores - early history of programming & game art Boxes for games George Brecht s

24 George Brecht - Repository

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27 Duchamp Bicycle Wheel Fountain Duchamp Readymade - found object

28 Eva Hesse s Eva hesse - Fiberglass, polyester resin Eva Hesse, holocaust survivor, German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s Hesse s interest in latex as a medium for sculptural forms had to do with immediacy. Keats states, "immediacy may be one of the prime reasons Hesse was attracted to latex".[30] Hesse s first two works using latex, Schema and Sequel ( ) use latex in a way never imagined by the manufacturer. "Industrial latex was meant for casting. Hesse handled it like house paint, brushing layer upon layer to build up a surface that was smooth yet irregular, ragged at the edges like deckled paper." [30] Hesse's work often employs multiple forms of similar shape organized together in grid structures or clusters. Retaining some of the defining forms of minimalism, modularity, and unconventional materials, she created eccentric work that was repetitive and labor-intensive

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32 Rachel Whiteread 1996 Untitled (Orange Bath) Rubber & Polystyrene Untitled (Orange Bath) 1996 Rubber and polystyrene

33 Rachel Whiteread 2005 Study plaster & wood Rachel Whiteread

34 Monument on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, 2001 Rachel Whiteread 2001

35 Rachel Whiteread Drawings / plans

36 JESSICA STOCKHOLDER Jessica Stockholder Aestheticizing everyday objects into fantastical non-functional systems

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41 Simon Starling Cactus House 2002 Simon Starling Simon Starling s works deal with natural and cultural transformation processes. the climate as a necessary precondition for the existence of natural and consequently also artificial systems. A cactus is brought to the Berlin winter and a motor vehicle is converted to provide heating The installation Kakteenhaus (Cactus House) (2002) simulates a greenhouse environment for a cactus which Starling took out of its original ecosystem in Spain and brought to Northern Europe by car. The car is parked outside the Kunsthalle, with its engine removed and set up inside. Extended conduits and cables connect the two elements in such a way that the heat produced by the running engine provides an adequate climate for the cactus. While the inherent contradiction of presenting exotic plants in unsuitable climates is thus made obvious in a grotesquely exaggerated way, the interweaving of material objects and the stories related to their origin create the constructions situated between documentation and fiction.

42 Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison Pedestal as aestheticized container / vessel for everyday objects Techniques are non technological - using hardware store materials

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46 Roman Signer Boot Fountain Roman Signer

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49 Haas Brothers 2017 Haas brothers Design objects - more traditional fabrication technology Making new forms for ceramic vessel holders, candle holders, lamps Influenced by biological and organic forms and bodily aesthetics

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52 Haas brothers Haas Brothers 2017

53 Candle sticks Haas Brothers 2017

54 Lamps Haas Brothers 2017

55 Furniture Haas Brothers 2017

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57 GOLF BAG, CAMERA BAG

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61 MOST CONTEMP - COMPUTER SLEEVES, HARDDRIVE CASES

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63 THINGS THAT FIT INTO OTHER THINGS WEBSITE

64 Nathan For You - Chili Man Suit (2017) NATHAN FOR YOU CHILI WEARABLE