Welcome to The sketchbooks of Rabhia Saeeda artist’s blog, its aims are to capture her adventures as an MA Visual Arts: Digital Arts –Online Professional Artist /Filmmaker with Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Mac-book
November 25, 2009 — cloudseekerMy mac goes in on Friday,so after I will be ” borrowing” any available computers or laptop to write this blog.
Mac book -just got sicker
November 25, 2009 — cloudseekerMy Macbook is not well, it’s battery dead and now it sometimes doesn’t go power up even with the mains supply cable—-not a happy bunny at all.
Gonna see if I can get it fix ASAP.
And need to BACK EVERYTHING UP.
Paper in progress –:)
November 24, 2009 — cloudseekerI have been trying to overcome my challenge, I have all the ideas , I know how all the ideas will connect,I trying just to write and then worry about it making sense after.
Work in progress
November 24, 2009 — cloudseekerPoem ” Words” (Installation experiments)
A pin is used to prick out the thought process, will eventually become a dual layered installation, the pricked sheet will obstruct text which is unreadable,but still there.
The idea is to represent my thought process of finding the right words and struggling to express myself, the pin pricks become the brain desparately trying to make the throughts connect , the paper is a physical barrier which prevents the artist trying to express exactly what she ’s trying to say, behind the paper is the written words she’s trying to reach.
It is hoped that the final installation will be at least 2 to three metres in lenght allowing a number of participants to experience what I experience everyday, but as much as they peer through the holes and search for the words and try to make sense ,they are faced with the same issue that I have of trying to make the words connect since it will be near- impossible to see all the text even if they peer through all the pricked holes,because the words are still jumbled.
The point of the work is to create an interactive installation which explores the frustration the artist has to deal with a cognitive disability and what it actually feels like.
Words experiments (above)
(Poem Snow ) 365 snowflakes
Snowflakes -experiments continue
Experiments with cut outs (above)
“Brown,always looks” ,a tea monotype,will eventually become a silkscreen print .
Must Remember the Following
November 23, 2009 — cloudseekersuminagashi, =”floating ink” Japanese is the oldest method of decorative paper made with floating colors that is known today
practitioners-can’t spell it
ethereal-word I like
Ideas for Poems-realised
Snow- 365 snowflakes- new piece of work–paper sculpture
Words- disconnection between thought ,language comprension
A Large scale installation piece
Brown,always looks good- A Monoprint
Under Hokusai’s wave- book art
Triangle —a series of drawings
Sail the Wild Seas??/
Where would art be without Saatchi?
November 23, 2009 — cloudseekerOriginally broadcast (17 September 2009), Accessed 23 Nov 2009
handwritten transcript research for my MA paper.
Discussing “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic by Charles Saatchi” book with Gavin Turk, and Brain Sewell.
Garvin Turk
“I think that it was quite important that he was collecting young British artists at that point, for me, obviously because I think brought the first work to sell, he did actually buy it form a transparency, which I found totally and utterly undermining”
Interviewer
“But the fact that it was such a high profile sale, was it a good thing?
Gavin Turk
“The relationship between art and money is always a difficult one, it’s a necessarily thing, and obviously allows the artist to make more work….
And also allows the artist, certainly in the way Charles Saatchi does it, to show their work to the public”
Interviewer
“Brian Sewell- do you agree with him that Art collector are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things?
Brian Sewell
“Well it depends on entirely what you mean by the scheme of things, in the art world if that’s the scheme, then it vitally important.
My view of it is, that it’s all very well for people to become painters and sculptors, if there aren’t ten thousand people, out there, what ever out there means, who are prepared to put there hands in their pockets and pay and buy and take home a work of art, then the artist has no hope of surviving as an artist “
Interviewer
” You have been very critical of Charles Saatchi in the past, but these books rather, changed your mind about things, hasn’t it?
Brian Sewell
“No it hasn’t, not at all, my mind has been changed by the cumulative wisdom of decades, I think.
I suddenly had a d??????? Relation moment, some kind of that’s what I knew it all about, feeling some eighteen months ago, suddenly occurred to me that what I knew about late 2oth and early 21st century painting and sculpture, I knew entirely because I ‘d seen it through the hands of Charles Saatchi, I hadn’t seen it through Tate Modern.
Everything I know or everything everyone else knows, every other man on the street, every taxi driver, all the people who are talking about contemporary art now, in a way they never did, when I was a boy, are doing so because of the effort of Charles Saatchi and not because of the efforts of Nicholas rotha, there is very interesting passages, he makes it clear that he feels the same as I do, that Tate modern is a large lazy, bureaucratic institution, which doesn’t do its job.
I hated sensation when it came out in 1997 or when it was when it came out, at the Royal Academy, I went home feeling sick, I walked home because I felt physically sick but I didn’t know anything about the YBA until the, I heard little snippets here and there.
He was the revelation.”
Interviewer
“Let me bring in Gavin –would you defend Tate Modern? For quite a lot of people Tate Modern is the best thing ever ?
Gavin Turk
“I think Tate Modern obviously was able to get made because of the YBA ‘s but”
Interviewer
” YBA”s happened because Charles Saatchi?
Gavin Turk
“Possibly that’s the case, you know I think also I defend Tate modern as in there is an attempt to interpret and understand the art, but I think that Tate Modern sees it’s job as more to preserve things that have already existed somehow, kind of passive, almost role.
I think it’s important to do that, but I also think that it should support and generate a creative climate”
Interviewer
“Do you agree with Brian Sewell when he says that what Charles Saatchi has done, is what we know in the mainstream about Modern art is largely down to what Charles Saatchi has told us.”
Gavin Turk
“I don’t think it’s what Charles Saatchi has told us, at all.
I think there have been a great many players, contributors to, to the current contemporary art.
I think that Charles Saatchi has been an important player within that.”
Interviewer
” What about the suggestion he’s a malign influence?
” When he dumps art or sells art, that artist suffers big time?
Gavin Turk
“I think that the quote came from Peter Blake and the parry from Charles Saatchi was maybe it was sour grapes from Peters’ because Saatchi, which was a little harsh, a little mean.
I think its interesting that Collectors has that much power, that they can make or break an artist, bring there value up and then sell them out and squash their market and in a way it says it slightly in the book.
The examples of Sean skull or Julia shrapnel, somehow these artists are pretty much, back to the sort of sale and amounts of figures, they’re not expensive to buy, they are expensive, they have a market position, I don’t think that market position has, that is not something Charles Saatchi has single handed controlled.”
Brian Sewell
“I don’t think you should expect a collector, and I think of like Charles Saatchi, as a collector, not as a merchant, you can’t expect him to keep everything he buys, the momentarily enthusiasm often dies away, and then you wonder why the hell you brought something and the only sensible thing is to get shot of it.
Every decent private collector, on finding a better example of this teacup, than he already has, will get rid of his teacup and get a better one.”
Interviewer
“One of the questions in this book is to a throwing forward to 100 years time
Who are the great artists, that pass the test of time and Saatchi’s answer is
Every artist other than Jackson pollark, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hurst will be a footnote “
Brian Sewell
“I think every artist will be a footnote, people are going to write commerative catalogue resumes of Damien Hurst, and for example, he’s going to be a joke.
Gavin Turk
“Obviously I make art to endure, I don’t think I ‘m that vain to think it matters that much “
Brian Sewell
“But it does matter, if it doesn’t matter then why are we here?
Interviewer
We asked Charles Saatchi, but he famously doesn’t give interviews,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8260000/8260311.stm
Slay the Dragon
November 23, 2009 — cloudseekerIt’s Monday already, I didn’t get as far as I wanted to with that paper yesterday, but hopefully will make up for it today.
Need more Caffeine and bucket loads of inspiration to make some magic happen. (No I ‘m really serious)
I swear doing a MA is an endurance test, the first obstacle is the paper, writing that thing is trying my patience, but It all about focus and when it comes to writing or reading creative discourse, the truth is;I just get bored, I know its important.
I just spend so long trying to work out what I want to say and then put it into language structure which make logical sense, and then it can all make sense until its read out by my Mac, which unlike me doesn’t correct my word order and then I’m back to rewriting it again.
It is truly a painful process.
There is a whole area of critical writing and its suppose to improve practice,but I love reading books i can read and understand most of.
Reading any of those books ,Roland B etc, I know I should, but I can read the same chapter three or four times and get no where, to me this type of writing is written by academic for other academics, It is elitist and exclusive, and cares nothing for accessibility or inclusion.
To me ,my creative practice is important ,not writing and worrying about what it all means, the work is a subconscious process, I rarely know where something will end up, through the process of experiments, drawings, writings and poems, I work towards carving out an idea which captures the distilled idea I had for a piece of work. Sometimes the idea works on paper but in 3d it doesn’t work and looks a little obvious.
Talking about “that paper”, it’s a challenge that must be faced and conquered; yes I do believe in the power of language of mind, that and the fact I really want finish so I can make some new work.
I have so many ideas that I want to tryout, just have to finish the paper.
Got to go, and slay that dragon.
To do today
November 22, 2009 — cloudseekerMust work till I Finish the paper for End of Monday 12 am….
Drat got so much to do,but need to so I can get some feedback on the whole thing,otherwise it could off the mark.
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So excited the exhibition opening tonight,wish I was there…
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Retro-Archive – 21st October 2008
November 22, 2009 — cloudseekerExtract from-Archive - 21st October 2008
Jonathan Kearney says, “Yes Rabhia, and please start”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “Working Title: “
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “It is the outline, and cover the main aspects of the proposal”
Kevin Fox says, “Are we still all here?”
Christos_Malecos says, “hey rabhia you still there?”
Jonathan Kearney says, “the title didn’t appear, but don’t worry, just tell us the things you will be doing this week to develop your project”
Jonathan Kearney says, “Ok, I think Rabhia seems to have some problems…”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “the proposal explore certain Japanese poetry form, Japanese aestics and Biloplio theory”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “for end of this week, the will be a full proposal and presentation on the blog page, explaining the ideas and how I am going to approach them”
Hassen, “wow, great work”
Hassen, “I love poetry”
Hassen, “Poetry is in my work too”
Hassen, “Sort of the narrative Dada poetry”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “I will be using the structure of poetry but not the words”
Hassen, “great, that’s even better!”
Hassen, “Are you doing a video?”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “sorry the spelling went, I hope that the work will be video, or sound possibly both”
Hassen, “that’s sounds so great”
Hassen, “great”
Hassen, “I know that I haven’t made a video in a long time”
Hassen, “so some of us are in the same boat”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “looking at how I can best represent ideas and then work about the best way of representation them, me neither, not since last year”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “Left uni, now I ‘ll have to beg, borrow or steal a camcorder”
Hassen, “lol”
Hassen, “that’s just too funny, but it is the real deal”
Nicole_Struppert says, “rabhia, what is the link of your blog? I can’t find it on the wiki page”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “I have heard some amazing soundscapes, having studied sound design, I was told that a person can only hear about three sounds at a time, after which it gets distracting, so I may use it to show structure”
Hassen, “I never knew that! You’ll have to keep me inspired throughout the course so that I may learn from you”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “My blog was added to wiki page but it hasn’t worked, so will try to add it again, and update it also”
Nicole_Struppert says, “ok, great”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “Great, Its good to share what you know”
Nicole_Struppert says, “thank you”
Hassen, “Thanks Rabhia!”
Jonathan Kearney says, “testing”
Jonathan Kearney says, “Is this working???”
Rabhia_Saeeda says, “I think that it harder to explain anymore without everyone having full access to the proposal and presentation”
