Work In Progress/Process

Please see process and documentation below.

Work in Progress/Process, 2018
Wooden Frame, Fabric and Audio

Focusing on the construction of self in relation to physical labour and the creation of a self-made space.

‘Female art students often approach artmaking with a personality structure conditioned by an unwillingness to push themselves beyond their limits; a lack of familiarity with tools and artmaking processes; an inability to see themselves as working people; and a general lack of assertiveness and ambition’

Womanhouse Catalog Essay By Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, CO-directors, The Feminist Art Program

We recorded the entire process of our making and presented our ‘room’ alongside this documentation. Initially, with working with a traditionally masculine trade we hoped to merge/abolish the stereotyped binaries of “Men” and “Women’s” work. This was later abolished.

Film Clip
0:21

we explored topics of gendered work and how this relates to our collective and independent identities. sound recordings of our process is especially imperative to this approach.

Meeting
Film and image captured from discussion
9:53

WIP
Film with Audio Overlay
15:48

Through building, we navigated the dynamics between ourselves as a group and how that can be conveyed through an expression of space.

Susan Frazier, Aprons in the Kitchen
Miriam Scapiro, Doll House

Faith Wilding, Crocheted Environment

‘By breaking its form, de la Cruz breaks convention, quite literally, by mangling the stretcher and piercing the flat edifice of the canvas to unleash it into three-dimensional space.’

About Angela de la Cruz, The Lisson Gallery,
https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/angela-de-la-cruz

Clutter IX (Blue), 2004
Deflated (Yellow), 2010
Recycled (Hybrid) Red, 2016
Angela de la Cruz, Larger Than Life

We particularly responded to the deconstructed elements of her work and the subversion of typical associations of painting and sculpture. The re-forming and subversion of the traditional format of painting and sculpture mirror the -at this time- collective’s deconstruction of traditional spaces. They are destroyed to be rebuilt to facilitate a true ownership over space.

We used previously material: audio documentation, textual transcripts and experimental fabric to situate our structure within the context of its own creation.