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David Tutorial Task - Tate Video (18/7/23)

Interviewer introduction to the artist’s practice (prep them with 150 words)

Can you tell us about your latest project? The Donut Sub-Collection explores a series of public artworks from London's largest free-to-visit public art collection located in Canary Wharf. The project aims to challenge the “public” quality of privately owned public art through a satirical guided art tour of The Donut Sub-Collection – a fictitious art collection re-imagining 6 public artworks in Canary Wharf as donut installations.

Where is it situated? The project is based in Canary Wharf, London's core financial capital located in its Docklands on the Eastern edge of the city. With a long history of redevelopment populated by high-rise offices and newly built residential suites, the site was privatised in the late 1980s and is now characterised by its added level of of security and strict photography regulations on site. This contested public and private nature of Canary Wharf made it an interesting site to explore its public art collection, and perhaps to unearth the authenticity behind the public-ness of these privately owned artworks.

How does it connect with themes you’ve addressed before? My practice has always revolved around developing systems grounded in play and humour to intervene into the powers that hold precedence over individual lives and autonomy. The individual as a vibrant and emotional being is often forgotten against the rhythm and politics of living in fast paced societies, and I find that The Donut Sub-collection connects to my practice by re-inserting the public into public art and public spaces through emotional methods of making and writing that encourage the expression of the individual.

Who is the work for? - People who live in

Why is it important today? -

What artists do you look to for inspiration?

How will you make it?

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Health & Safety (30/5/23)

(1) Mitigation of Risks - "anticipatory thinking" - being in the space

RAMs: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/safety-services/risknet

unusual weather conditions as a valid risk to re-schedule (potentially) your project

risks being from participants themselves

environmental "people"

risk assessment changing with every iteration of your project

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Ethics of Practice-based Research (ie. Site Writing) (30/5/23)

Submitting ethic forms and papers as a way to cover ur ass for the potential future use of your project/research material. https://www.practisingethics.org/

(1) Informed Consent - participants needing to be fully informed of what they are doing/getting involved in; in order to make a decision to participate HOW: - a printed out information sheet + detailing their scale of involvement + how their "data" will be used/re-used + who to address further questions (2) Benefit not harm: - research benefitting society - risks of individuals must be minimised - everything explained clearly to audiences (3) Confidentiality: - release form vibes/consent form + pictorial/oral consent (recordings etc.) - but participants have the right to withdraw their consent at any time under UCL ethics - removing identifiable features of individuals in your media

(4) Low Risk Ethics Form (to be completed for the course) - key thing is to demonstrate consideration (like writing RAMs) of certain risks/possibilities

EXEMPTIONS: - anonymised records - observations of public behaviour (still should go through some ethics): however what defines a "participant"? - anonymous survey - usage of public figures - info in the public domain

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David Tutorial

Branding Manual

Licence for user's type thing (who else can use this logo etc.)

Placemaking (urban planning) - How can we make this place a different place, drawing out the placeness of the place more placey. Edgy x Dangerous, Creative x Sexy (almost like gentirfying a place)

Oli Mould (against creatvitity)

Steven Pritchard 

Positionality

Leaning into the rightful critque of these strategies

Regeneration Realities (david)

alberto duman (art intervening into the financialisation)

the copyrighting of a communities' economics (recouping it)

Economic aspect of the project, can it go to the people 

how much can i google donut strategies i can find (1hour)

following through with each of the allegories

how would the agency operate?

what is the "gravitational pull" of my work?

all the strategies (if its iterative), can u describe it a donut way?

donut as method

intervention: how do u transpose your estute way of speaking into a site (choreography)

Mike pearson site specific performance (UCL Library): utilising the envionrment, built environment to arrow towards certain ideas - structuing somehting 

- "please dont look at that one because its not a donut"

Starting as a bakery uniform and evolving into a corporate uniform 

wrights and sites exeter field guide

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Major Project Tutorial #1 (9/5/23)

conventions of the tour - street art tour - food tour - the first street art food tour(?) - what is the "coveted" knowledge offered in ur ""paid"" tour?

considering the performance of the tour - what are you wearing? high vis vest? donut floaty rings showing the next artwork we are heading towards? are you holding a flag? - are people offered something at each checkpoint? food? donuts? making the donuts? - how do the crochet objects manifest into the tour? - seeing how far you can get away from the security of the site

considering the significance holding the tour and acting in the space adds to overall ideas of "consumption"

website, the audio tour, where the assets lie etc. (physical + digital network of the tour)

SEE: 1) England by Tim Crouch (play) 2) Andrea Ferrero (food art) 3) Claes Oldenburg (freezer stuff) - plaster dipped muslin over wire frame - papier mache https://wowartproject.com/2017/05/05/4th-grade-paper-mache-donuts/

- plaster casts - enamel paint - foam rubber - glue as stiffener https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/claes-oldenburg-the-sixties 4) Donut-themed games (elephant donut)

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"unruly gathering of people that don't usually come together"

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Your Laundry - Edwina Attlee

sound piece for people to listen to as they do their laundry

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DONUT REFERENCES

The Symbol of a Circle - symbolise the concept of cosmic unity - In mystical doctrines, the circle mainly symbolises the infinite and cyclical nature of existence, but in religious traditions it represents heavenly bodies and divine spirits - unity, infinity, wholeness, the universe, divinity, balance, stability and perfection - magic circle - containers of energy - The Wheel (as the first human invention shaped like a donut ring)

Donut Economics - Kate Raworth (Donut City)

Bespoke, artisanal craft (Baking) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/18/rise-of-posh-doughnuts-gourmet

Donut City A city whose centre has deteriorated or declined as a result of rapid growth of the surrounding suburbs. https://smartcityhub.com/governance-economy/doughnut-cities/ https://www.atributosurbanos.es/en/terms/doughnut-city/ https://carnegieeurope.eu/2022/02/15/can-cities-use-doughnut-model-to-hack-liberal-democracy-pub-86368 https://fee.org/articles/theres-a-hole-in-the-middle-of-doughnut-economics/

Donut x Humans (as a singular tube): https://radiolab.org/episodes/guts-2211

Police x Donuts https://time.com/4800386/donuts-doughnuts-police-cops/ - Donuts as 24/7 food - Cheap, convenient - The accessibility of a donut for graveyard workers - "For the people"

Sinful Sweets, Unhealthy - Fried batter

Cosmic Donut (shape of the universe) - Matter surrounding nothingness (black hole) - The milky way https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqjkn/the-universe-is-a-giant-donut-that-we-live-inside-new-research-suggests

Donut Particle Accelerator - Switzerland, UK etc https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/visiting-the-uks-largest-particle-accelerator-3345/

Decartes "I think therefore I am" - Perception is like a donut. You only know an object based on what is around it (senses, influences, culture etc.), but you will never actually know what lies in it's core (like the empty donut ring)

Jam Filled Donut as the concentration of wealth

Donuts as an Atom - the core of an atom

Donut Architecture - https://www.dezeen.com/2014/01/10/doughnut-shaped-skyscraper-guangzhou-china/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doughnut - https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/libraries-leisure-and-arts/arts-and-culture/public-art-afloat

Japanese/Chinese Currency

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ANALYSING DONUT LANGUAGE

Krispy Kreme, Dunkin Donuts, Greggs Website

Descriptive words: - Irresistible - O so sweet - Scrumptious - The bigger, the gooier, and more indulgent - Tasty e.g "A unique and tasty fundraising idea" e.g "what tastes good can do good" - Treats e.g Responsible treating e.g an indulgent treat, not an every day luxury - Glazed e.g "glazed to perfection" - Sugar coated - Dozens e.g "our amazing selection of dozens" - Bliss - Hand-dipped - Battered - Melt-in-your-mouth e.g "guarantee those melt in the mouth moments" - Light - Fluffy - Sweet e.g "a sweet upgrade" - Delicious - Scent - Fresh - Indulge e.g Events have never tasted so indulgently good - Variety e.g Variety is the spice of life - Fix e.g a donut fix - Rich - Rhobust - Yummy - Innocent - Rebellious - Dollop e.g The Perfect Dollop of.... - Bloomin’ AH-mazing - Nostalgic - Satisfy e.g "satisfy your tastebuds" - Real, Honest Flavour - Sinful Types of donuts: - Ring - Filled - Holes Puns: - Dough (referring to money) e.g Raise some dough (charity) - Consumers (eating and buying context) - Cater (food catering and catering to context) - Confection(ary) (mixing, compunding sth vs elaborate sweet dish) - Jam/Jamless (concentration of something) - Everything in 6s or 12s (the dozen) - Sharing OVERALL ANALYSIS: - Language stressing on indulgent behaviour, treating oneself, playfulness, sinfulness. Playing on the unhealthiness of the donut into some type of joyous, nostalgic, hard to get activity

#donut

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22/3/23 SW Tutorial

The UK’s First Donut Sculpture Park

Style of writing: Claes Oldenburg “I am For” manifesto (democratising access to art)

An interrogation of public art

Donut Art Manifesto?

We are all donuts: We all have an external hole through us (Tours)

The semiotics of donuts

Donut City, 15min city (right wing ideology): socialist plot of donuts taking over our cities

Donut economics (what is sustainable and livable in terms of parameters): circling back to spaces as a cntre of finance/commerce

How the jam/jamlessness represents maybe wealth concentration vs not

Public art as art-washing: a parody of funding towards social engagement and social enterprise

Proposed bake off

Bespoke, sugar coating selection 

High end/ curatorial speak

Carey Young (precision, blurring the lines between truth and fiction

Confection definition (Sweet meat as an add on)

Donut language (ref baking shows)

Rosalin Deutch Invictions

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23/3/23: Site Writing w/ Jane

Donut Sub Collection - Keeping with the curatorial language - Looking into how the curatorial language works (public galleries vs private/corporate sculpture collections) - Is there a particular language of high end collections? - 6-7 works - Sub-tour to pair with the catalogue - Possible challenge with blending the curatorial tone with business models - These pieces aren't pieces that are being sold - closer to real estate language - Why the works are there, are there any statements in the existing catalogue that discusses their value contributing to the site's value - Sugar Coatedness, Donuts with the Jam in the middle - Louis Bourgouis Mikabal Book (x7 types of art criticism of the same art sculpture) - Making the writing criticism more consistent (Julian Stallebrass) + High Art Light by Stallebrass ****** - Perfect site in a donut shop - Marisha Lewandowska (Paddington "De Tour") - Possibly bringing in people down the line that has stake in Donut economics, donut making, bake off shows etc. - Promises of public art is meant to democratise public art (lol CW is private land though) - Kitschy pop art vibe - Is public art that is public actually accessible? Is there a language that allows for a more accessible interpretation. - Donuts as very unhealthy objects, is there art unhealthy? - Allegorising (commentary without being explicit) - DUNKIN' Donut typography - Krispy Kreme typography (riff off that) - Website (their own walk), tour, where do you find the leaflet?, maybe there's audio description online of the tour. - What time of day should the tours take place? Weekend? Rush hour? Maybe different tours have different issues? - Title: The Donut Sub-Collection + good use of the word "sub" + visual language development is very important (colouring, lettering)

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VANISHING POINT - CW POEM

White round ring of stone

Some might say, you look alone

Your powdered perfection, your infinite roundness

Some might say, a donut shaped anus

Ain’t us, to judge what you should be

Your mystery however, inspires me to be free

I’m done with counting numbers, spreadsheets and lunches

I want to be you, in all your donut-like wonders

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23/3/23 SITE WRITING PRESENTATION 2

We begin our journey through the highlights of the Canary Wharf public art collection with The Golden Jelly Donut. With its prime location right at the mouth of the newly built Elizabeth Line, you will be drooling at your mouth upon an encounter with this multi-dimensional sculpture. The Golden Jelly Donut plays on the materiality of public art sculptures, with its steel body subverting its recognisable form of a nostalgic childhood snack. The golden sculpture plays on our expectations of the ubiquitous donut. One expects the soft, fluffy lightness of risen flour filled with a rich, deep red jelly concoction. Yet, what we experience is far from that. We are presented with a cutting edge, heavily polished formidable golden jelly donut. The cold, bronzed polished surface creates a strong form of contrast with the soft, sugared surface of the jelly donut. 

It’s out of the world size brings to mind the work of sculptor Claes Oldenburg and his colossal recreations of sinful sweet and salty treats mother would never let you have past bedtime. The adaptation of Oldenburg’s practice into Canary Wharf is an attempt to transform the cut throat financial centre into a playground of desserts. The juxtaposition of sweet, teeth-rotting motifs with the sterile landscape of the reflective rectangular office columns adds a new dimension of meaning to the world-renown hub of finance. The choice of gold not only uplifts the status of the everyday donut to one of dignity and grandeur, but symbolises the award winning history of Canary Wharf. Not only did it once hold the record for the tallest building in the UK in 1991 with One Canada Square, but it is also currently home to the UK’s largest free-to-visit public art collection. Gold is therefore not just a symbol of wealth and prosperity, but the reflection of Canary Wharf’s position as number one in the world by some accord. By reducing the multi-textural baked treat into its purest structural form, the Jelly Donut leads us to question whether the Greggs located in One Canada Square opens during tea time. 

Another baked good not only available in Greggs but also in Canary Wharf, is the iconic “Powdered Sugar Donut, Front Facing” sculpture. Yet, another keen addition to the sweet treats sub-collection. Employing the identical upscaling approach seen in “Golden Jelly Donut”, “Powdered Sugar Donut, Front Facing” brings the donut series back to its roots with its recognisable and irrefutable craft mimicking that of a white powdered sugar donut. Strokes of varying lengths and thickness stretch across the donut from the centre hole outwards towards the curves of the donut. This creates a strong sense of visual movement, drawing the eye from the perfect round rims of the donut into the empty mid-point. The round void located in the centre of the donut also acts as a natural framing to the Canary Wharf landscape that lies beyond the massive donut. It could be argued that the pin-hole perspective created by the sculpture reflects that of the minds of Canary Wharf locals. This perspective altering effect brings one’s focus away from its scale and towards the void in the middle of the sculpture – prompting us to question where the missing centre might’ve gone to. This leads us to the next piece in the donut sub-collection – “Dusty Donut Hole”

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sonic landscape

visuals script and sounds doing something different 

going on a better lit day, noon, flat light days

take macro lens camera and taking pictures of the gum, scratches etc. 

better if it felt like just one bench, doesn’t make it look like it exists in different sites

cut out references

fishly and vice (tate modern installation bronze sculptures)

maybe even treating the bench like a casted object made to look like a bench

self record the script

pastiche as an art form

re-writing aliosha’s script, what is missing, what is there

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treating the audio and video piece as two separate entities

making an audio piece for the install

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7/3/23: Scanning the City - Keren Kuenberg

Scanning as a way to fold and collapse a space (digital origami)

Envelope of a place

Unreal Engine - insert audio recordings into 3D objects

Encapsulating a space - idea of a lost space existing in your hard drive (memory capsule)

Photogrammetry

Highlights the significance of exploring a site remotely - figuring out what that means for the site and the individuals exploring the space.

Scanner lazer rays have ability to lift unseen images from surface of site

Scanning movement

Doll house effect

Layering over and physically inserting archival images/footage (literal digital collage) - I guess its a cool process

Re-Installing the Work:

Scanning can kind of remove life and soul from a space

Thinking about how this can be fixed by the insertion of more layers to the scan

Reflection:

Maybe scanning the artworks as a tool to observe the pieces in this 3D curatorial manner? Not just still images but a blend of both?

Possibly using the still images as a way to support the scan of the sculpture

Elevating that format of "art in focus" videos

Embedding a sketchfab file of Lidar scans