still-ness is the move

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still-ness is the move.

preface

site brainstorming

motion - emotion slo-mo disappearance looping re-play appendix: research

preface

STILL-NESS IS THE MOVE is the designed pattern presented and construct with line art technique. This pattern design has the strong relevant to moving human body and space. Inspired by Japanese theatre dance, Butoh. Through investigation of a series of movements found in Butoh performance, this design has developed into 3 modulations representing pattern in 3 different states: motion - emotion; slo-mo disappearance; looping replay.

In this design studio, have spent the first 6 weeks on exploring pattern through different approaches such as structure, surface and meaning.

Finding what is pattern and how it structure. In order to find out what is pattern, tasks such as morse code, weaving, tapestries, surface design, data visualization, Modernism design and insallation to be completed and address on further exploration and development. This catalogue is integrated of research, primal tasks, development and design that has done in the semester. Arrange into 3 parts as presenting 3 states of pattern that has explored. so, WHAT IS PATTERN? Pattern is an expressive element in design. It ain’t a form or structure, it is repetition itself. Pattern expressing itself by repeating a form, and the pattern decides how forms could construct into a structure it leads to be.

Each pattern has its own complexities or rhythm to build up, therefore they are unique and characterize and able to idendify something when pattern is applied.

The experiences with different methods and techniques acknowledged the idea of pattern. Inhabit the understanding of pattern into the interest field: Butoh to design the pattern that response to the pattern described above. Line has been chosen to be the form where pattern apply on.

WHAT IS BUTOH? Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre emerged of activities, movement and techniques for dance or performance. Butoh are often titled as “dance of darkness”, “crude physical gestures and uncouth habits”.

WHY IS LINE? Line is the bridge of two points, capable of being connected in any form and dimension. The aim is to create the spatial experience that visually dynamic and sensory present the pattern.

DISPLAY MODE The using string plus UV lights to create that redefine space with glowing strings. Illuminate by UV light the pattern structure become a visual ground to experience a sense of 3-dimensional perpective where string stretches across and an immeasurable liveliness for audience to get lost in.

site

DANCEHOUSE 150 Princes Street North Carlton VIC 3054 AUS

WHY LINE?

One thing cannot deny the reason of choosing line was found in the Surface task. Was hybridizing two organic pattern of fingerprint and timber. Found that the lines created by pattern is giving that texture and adding identity to fingerprint. Even is just line, it cannot be more detail or unique.

“Dancehouse is a home of independent movers...it’s got their back...it’s under their feet...and carries them forward. It is radar, signal, transmitter and receiver. It is a homeland for Independent, the bold, the brave, the rare, the fragile.”

- Hellen Sky, co-founder of Dancehouse Dancehouse is Australia’s premier centre for independent dance. Artists and audiences alike are inspired by Australian contemporary dance to think, act and live creatively.

WHY HUMAN BODY?

In a task Installation was where i find my interest on finding pattern on human body. As living in an apartment, can easily see the opposite neighbours through the window. Imagine in dinner time most household prepare to eat. Doing the same thing but they are still different like speed, gestures, movement or roles everyone plays. That is the pattern I found, which pattern of a person can make a family/ home so unique.

Therefore in this task I created my own member in the house with daily used material I found.

Still-ness is the move is allocated at the SYLVIA STAEHLI THEATRE There is stage, dance floor and seats.

104 seats - 9.5 x 10 metres - polished timber floors - heated no aircon - no mirrors - no natural light - full black out

These are the body of work to observe and understand the body movement.

Marking of anything can be found in the body and apply them with LINES. Started as creating axis as the railway for line to track down the pattern of motion. They probably relate to the tensity of human body and control gestures.

motion - emotion

Pattern is such an expressive element.

Pattern appear where there is rhythm, tone, mood. body + pattern = motion feeling + pattern = emotion Apply pattern, a body create motion; apply pattern, mood can be emotional.

Butoh artist perform with their body instead of speaking therefore they are common use of their expression to show the information they want to deliver to audience.

Motion-emotion is presenting the patterns found in Butoh artist. Use of line to mark out the space between body and emotion, body and tensity.

little mind space: This is the little logic how I destruct and construct the pattern refer to the butoh dance. These equations is a way how i view the pattern from body and found the void in between.

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body + pattern = motion feeling + pattern = emotion pattern = body - motion pattern = feeling - emotion

Modernism Collage is a task to observe the painting given and translate it into abstract shapes and primary colours to represent its composition, movement and emotion. The first collage is about simply look at the architectural structure behind and contrast of important subject/ object in the painting.The second piece of collage is translation of the way looking at the painting in time. As the space in painting virtually in motion affects by time such as the shadow/ light, the moving body, the emotions on face. Collage using technique of long and thin rectangular shapes to show the imagined movement.

These are the forms I constructed with pattern. There are flat (2d) and 3-dimentional elements, depends on the railway how pattern flow between motion and emotion.

Weaving and tapesty is a technique to understand pattern where it has a clear instruction to refer to and repeat to it to construct the structure follow by the rhythm. plain “1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1...” twill “1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2...” satin “2,1,2...4,1,4...1,1,3%^&*” The warp and weft is in control by hand but the appearence of pattern cant be known until its done.

Translate words into morse code and present them with thread in triangular shapes of facing up and down. Overlaying of triangles form structure of sound in the built sentence. Message delivers as what you see. The rhythm it forms naturally is the pattern. The pattern is speaking, it speaks with tones.

Audience is able to engage with the installation, the design is active when the room in black out mode. Audiences are expect to be confused with the 2d and 3d pattern created in this space. The black out mode will erase the boundries in this physical room, and audience is in the space build out of pattern-ed string.

slo-mo disappearance

Investigate a physical body moving and track down the movement. Catching every moment and pattern will be shown. In this pattern is about physical object. Similar as how pattern is found in a body from motion-emotion. For this, is showing the tensity of the body that is slow and hyper control actions. Body structure like muscles or nerves that control the tension of body while moving is the interesting relationship that can be seen in Butoh dance.

This combination of pattern found in slomo disappearance is 3 seperated structure of the same body representing ‘present, past, past-past’. As a physical body, it is impossible for the body in different timeline to be exist in a physical space. Therefore, they are constructed in different gap size to differenciate these 3 bodies of pattern.

The larger the gap size showing the fading effect to enhance the ‘disappearance’ where the body is left.

1. data visualization of sleep, this data has collected in a week. present in a clockwise order to show the timeline. It results to show the less layer part is the time stay awake and the most layering part is where the time asleep. 2.data visualization of foot tracking of myself in a week. The data collected drawn a pattern of movement out of a map visually and the shows the frequency of visited place.

Similarily, the data collected of Butoh movement present in pattern form and the different density of lines giving extra information of the pattern; direction/ previous body gesture.

The gaps between string in 3 bodies are different to create different exposure to the space in between. This aim to pass the sense of time to audience. When audience is moving through the 3 bodies of pattern they are able to be aware of the changing that remind them the interval between space and time. Where 3 of them are the same body capture in different moment, and the fact is human’s pattern only can be seen when it is captured.

looping re-play

Pattern can be found anywhere, as simply as something repetitive. Story before Butoh, watching some mime videos to learn about ‘body speaks’. This is also the characteristic of theatre performance. Their gestures has to be dramatic as they can’t speak. It is interesing to see how they repeat their gesture to make sure their audience get what they are doing. It’s like a signal, a conversation without talking but acting. In Butoh, their movement are slow however Butoh artists present their information delivers naturally repeat with that hyper controlled movement.

As described, the repetition found in body is so communicative, it present the pattern as a word speaking. Once they finish repeat a gesture/motion, they repeat another.

There is the pattern.

Looping re-play is seeing the pattern in detail and zoom in of just one movement that is repeated. Trim it and replay. Enhance the sense of repetitive.

Mime performance

The whole components of this pattern is the combination of data collected in each movement it transform and curatern in a circulation order. In a sense of looping or infinite replay, enhancing the ‘repeat’ of gesture in the performance showing information and meaning.

This installation sited at the area of stage and dancing floor. It provides interesting view for the audience. In different angle it presents different view.

Exploded component to show the structures it contains. There is the huge outer shell of ‘looping’ space, within it there are frames of individual frame string situated in different depth. They are the connection of body to ground, stability. Body centre changing in every movement. I decided to put them in the inner part as the unseen element in physical world. They provides the dense of view for viewer to engage with.

String practice playing with arches, straights line stand in the 3 dimensional planes and create pattern randomly to understand the flow and take in control.

appendix

Stone Age Folk

The Munich artist Rupprecht Geiger (1908-2009)

Milan Design Week 2017

the compositions act as a visual representation of the artist’s own thoughts and frustrations. although she includes herself in each piece, her image is not meant as a self-portrait — rather a quest for identity, a desire for personal introspection, and an exploration of her frame of mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRLt7fFn_I http://mymodernmet.com/jeongmoon-choi-dialogue-lineaire/

Jaime Hayon

enjoy looking at how the works form with geometry shapes and material used the idea of asymmetry within symmetry is interesting

http://www.artnet.com/artists/rupprecht-geiger/

Colour Space

“I always start by looking for stories from my personal experience and draw these moments of my life out into the world. everything around me, including my experiences, feelings, my reality and current situations, small and large events in my life, childhood memories, and dreams, all become my motifs. I also get inspiration from literature and mass media, which can be my motifs, as they have also been captured in my memory.

My work derives from my personal experiences. after all, it is about life. everyone goes through different events and incidents in life, but we all grow and become mature through various experiences and sufferings, walking through the passage of life and experiencing emotions — notably joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure, which we koreans consider the four basic emotions. my work tells about things from life. I’d like my work to induce an ironic state of both hope and despair.”

http://www.designboom.com/art/jeeyoung-lee-interview-installation

http://www.hayonstudio.com

one of the leading figures in German post-war art Simple geometric forms such as the circle, square, rectangle and oval, as well as luminous colours and strong contrasts Geiger paints abstract “images in space”, where colour and light are of central importance: “The sole topic of my painting is colour, it alone is the motif”. The colour red is the embodiment of pure light, pure energy and vital force for the artist. Though red does not equal red for Rupprecht Geiger: It starts with a light yellow and ends with a deep violet.

Jee Young Lee

Installation for Red, 1985. Initially made for the Gallery Waßermann, now it is part of the Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, Germany.

Rote Trombe [Red Funnel Cloud]

materiality research Berlin-based Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi solo exhibition Dialogue Lineaire in Paris at Galerie Laurent Mueller through January 26, 2013 Rote Trombe [Red Funnel Cloud], 1985 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2008, installation view Haus der Kunst, 2008, photo Jens Weber, Munich

meaning/ data visualization

modernism collage morse code

2D to 3D in space

Fondazione Prada FORM

WHEN ATTITIDES BECOME Bern 1969 Venice 2013 surface design

the translation of an exhibition space then into 3d form it was stuck at the collages where the space is grounded in mind unable to see the space in different way to continue working tried to stay away form the reference and build the 3d model based from the collages themselves