Silkscreen

This task is to let know how yo interpret objects using representation, Identity, production, consumption and regulation. 
 Representation
Representation is the use of signs that stand in/for and take the place of something else. It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the art of naming its elements. Signs are arranged in order to form semantic constructions and express relations.

According to my collections for our Cabinet of Curiosities task, I have 4 different items as my collection.

 

1, A kirpan

I traced the shape of this kirpan as the stencil for the silkscreen.

 

it's very easy to cut the shapes out with a cutter, then I used black color to print this one.

 

2, A Bob Marley badge.

He is a very well-known Reggae musician, Reggae represents love and peace, so I came up with this logo to represent this badge.

 

This one is also in black color.

 

3,  A hand band from Saudi Arabia

 

The 2 on the sides are the buckles of this hand band, and there's the lace of this hand band in the middle

 

4, A hand band presents Reggae because of red, yellow and green colors together

 

I drew several circles, and each circle is going to have its own color, red, yellow and green.

 with 3 colors of the hand band in 3 circles.

Some random shapes from my collections

Contemporary Curation

Our photographic show is a Party Photography show, the theme is about parties such as concerts, music festivals, parties and clubbing nightlife.
Here are some Party Photography Pictures I found online.

 

Image one, Party Photography 1:  http://weheartit.com/entry/10330200

 

Image two, Party Photography 2:  http://favim.com/image/43564/ 

Party Photography is called nightlife photography as well; photographs of how much fun people have in the parties. So this is our gallery's theme, we will be showing Nightlife Photography in our gallery, check it out.

There are 5 of us in our group to design our own gallery, we decided to go with a Party Photography show; think about parties, how glamorous it could be, or how creative it could be, so I just went crazy and had several ideas to share with my team mates.

My 1st idea, A big disco ball in the middle of the gallery. which represents this show is a  party photography show.

My 2nd idea, "PARTY" mannequins wear the photographs on the neck. And will be randomly put in the gallery; "PARTY" mannequins have no heads but sexy bodies, their head would be a big sign with "PARTY" on both sides.

 

 http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/que-houxo#

My 3rd idea, Black light art. Show's name and introduction on one of the walls in the gallery.

My 4th idea, Play with different kinds of party lights in the gallery. which will be a "club" style gallery. 

 

My 5th idea, Play with different kinds of party light. in the gallery to make it feel like a party

My last idea is A giant bottle with the photographs inside. which will be bigger and taller than human bodies.

Then my team mates and I sat together and shared our different ideas, a few of my ideas were used in our party photographic show.

 

Our final decision

Let's start from the entrance,  the entrance will be a hall way-enter, and in this hall way, there will be big printed images the same height as human height which are about the beginning of the parties, such as people drinking beers, socializing, or even making out.

The big printed images are for viewers to optically think they are walking into a party, and to inform them that this is a show about parties; and showing the beginning of the party is to give this gallery a time line, and to create a good beginning of the show.

  

Then when you walk into the gallery, you will see a wall in the middle way, with black light art on the wall, which is the show's name, and introductions

Black light are used in nightlife clubs and some parties quite often, which represents the show theme. 

On the left side, there's a stereo shows the videos of the different parties, like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRjaluBTYHc and Future Music Festival in Malaysia, or some reference official videos, the sound of the videos will be played out, just to give the show a bit back ground music and add more atmosphere in the gallery; which is not going to be as loud as the parties, not to disturb the viewers mood.

We used one of my ideas for our curation, "PARTY" mannequins wear the photographs on the neck; it's a little bit changed though, we are going with the "PARTY" mannequins with LED screens on their chest and back to show the images, which will be played in order.

We will put several "PARTY" mannequins randomly in the gallery. Galleries usually show the artworks on the walls, we want it to be unique, so we decided to show most of the images in the middle of the gallery instead of the walls.

If you turn right at the black light art wall, you will see a giant vodka bottle bigger and taller than humans; which shows some of the photographs inside the bottle, so people have to walk around the giant bottle to view the photographs. (which is one of my ideas)

In the middle of the gallery, there's a big square glassed floor with photographs under the glass, and take a bow, you will see the photographs under your feet.

And in the middle of the square glassed floor, there's a 360 panorama picture showing in the middle, which will be a 360 degree view of the bar, and it will be a big printed image ans shown in a circle, as big as a real bar size, to make it look more realistic; 

 Will put high chairs around the 360 degree image, for viewer to have a rest in the middle and look at the images under the glass; and it makes the 360 panorama image more realistic.

Then we keep walking in the gallery, at the left corner, there's a giant disco ball showing the photographs as well; which gives it more party atmosphere; viewers have to walk around the ball to view the image. 

This is actually Shyam's idea, that is similar to my idea but better.

At the right corner, there will be a photo booth for the viewers to capture themselves in the show, and the photos will be printed with the show's name as the photo frames; to remember such an awesome show.

What will be on the walls since we are showing all the photographs in the middle of the gallery? We will put some bottle collections and several images on the walls.

The last one is connected to the entrance, it's also a timeline hall way-out of the show, and the same, big printed images at the hall way, but about the end of the parties, like people vomiting and big mess.

I think our contemporary curation is decently fine, we combined everybody's ideas together, and came up with this. Some of my ideas were not used, like playing with different kinds of party lights; because it will disturb the viewer's view to see the photographs. 

School Trip To The National Museum

School took us to the National Museum of Malaysia, it was a really cool school trip and my first time to the National Museum of Malaysia; the museum is palatial, beautiful and well-constructed, all of the galleries are amazing and well-arranged.
Here I've done some research for National Museum of Malaysia

National Museum of Malaysia
National Museum of Malaysia is a museum located on Jalan Damansara in Kuala Lumpur, Malysia. The museum situated in close proximity to the Perdana Lake Gardens and it provides an overview of Malaysian history and culture. Muzium Negara is a palatial structure built in the style of Rumah Gadang, an aspect of Minangkabau architectur. It's facade comprises elements of traditional Malay and modern features. Muzium Negara was opened on 31 August 1963, and it serves as a repository of Malaysia's rich cultural and historical heritage.
Muzium Negara is a three storied structure of 109.7 meters long and 15.1 meters wide and 37.6 meters at the central point. The museum houses four main galleries allotted to ethnology and natural history. The displays range from free-standing tableaux  showing cultural events lie weddings, festivals and costumes; to traditional weapons, musical instruments, arts, crafts, ceramics, and flora and fauna.

 

Image 1, National Museum of Malaysia: Wikipedia 

About this trip, all I wanna say is "I loved the massage chair in the lobby!" 1 RM for 3 minutes back massage, how awesome is that!
(LOL JUST KIDDING)

So anyway, the museum seemed really cool, especially with the well-designed stairs, it's a spiral walk-way to upstairs, non-steps stairs. The worst part was that we couldn't take any photographs inside the galleries, but I did write down some of really good artists' names for me to do some research afterwards.
 My favorite gallery was the Photography gallery, the entrance of the gallery was a camera lens, so basically people have to walk into a lens to see the show, a very creative and genius idea; it had a dark room in the gallery with different steps of how to develop the images and print the images out, which is really cool, cause I've been wanting to learn the Dark Room.
And there was this kids section, showing some artworks made by kids on the second floor, which was quite interesting; " All the kids are artists" from their work, I feel the natural and naive side of art.

Basically I found the whole museum very well-organized, and don't really have any critic comments about it;

School Trip to a Gallery

We went to this cafe in China town where with quite a lot good photographs, it's a photography exhibition.
There, I picked 4 different photographs which are critically strong and either critically weak.
 

                                              Image 1, Norihisa Hosaka, Japan: Decayed Light.
                                    Shibuya Hachikow Crossing with crowd after FUKUSHIMA 2011

This photograph's name is Decayed Light, fits this picture itself. The photographer used slow shutter speed to capture the busy cross road, cars, people and everything else is in a virtual shadow situation, which shows the movement of the street. And the image is in Black and White, which exactly presents the "decayed" part of this picture, and look at the light, it's a bit turning white, white light-decayed light. Perfect name for this photograph.

        Image 2, Alex Wong Yoong Wah, Malaysia: In and Out of the Mist-In the Middle of Nowhere

Critically, this photograph is full of mist, this name of this image fits the picture very well, as it says "in and out of the mist", we can't obviously see what or who's in and out of the mist until we dig into the pic and find the little person in the unclear mist. Everybody would be very sure this photo was taken in the middle of no where first time they saw it, cause the photo we see is a bit too empty and blank.

                                                      Image 3, Eduardo Fujii, US: Lightscape 
It's hard to express why I like this image; I feel emotions from this photograph, the perfect light irradiates through the woods and distributes; because of the light, the woods has the perfect shadow; the light and the woods are reflecting each other on this image, and plus those 2 people riding on the bikes on a tree path gives the image more emotions.

                Image 4, Keng Fun Loh, Singapore: Epiphany at Jan Meda, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2012

This image's got a perfect profile of this girls, and the photographer used the Available Light very well. But this image doesn't really tell, usually every photograph has their own background stories, whether short ones or long ones; I can't tell what's going on in this picture. And behind this girl, probably there's a white yurt, (cause the background is quite blurry and it's hard to figure what that is) I don't think the white yurt should be the background, because if this image was a portrait of this little girl, then the photographer should have found a better background for this portrait, such as blue sky or mountains.                                       
                                  

My Collections

I have got 4 kinds of collections for our group's cabinet of curiosities;
I've got a Kirpan which is a gift from my Punjabi friend, it's basically a Punjabi style dagger that they carry with for self protection;

                                             Image 1, a real Punjabi Kirpan, from Wikipedia.
KIRPAN
The kirpan is a ceremonial sword or dagger carried by Sikhs. It is a religious commandment given by Guru Gobind Singh (the tenth Guru of Sikhism) at the Baisakhi Amrit Sanchar (a holy religious ceremony that formally baptizes a Sikh) in CE 1699, baptized Sikhs (Khalsa) must wear a kirpan at all times.
                   

                                            Image 2, The Kirpan my friend gave to me.
                                                         
This is my gift from my Punjabi friend, it's a mini one, is usually given to friends as a gift or present. It's designed for girls, the pattern and shape are in a girl way, so I think it's designed for female, and this kirpan isn't sharp at all and it's small; and I don't think this kirpan has a very long history.

The second collection is a gift from my friend too, it's from Saudi Arabia; it's a hand band.

                                           Image 3, The hand band from Saudi Arabia
                                                            
this is made by different colors of ropes, and two golden metal buckles. It seems like a handmade one, looks like a braid. And the colors of the hand band are dark blue, orange and green; according to the colors of this hand band, it can be wore by either girls or guys. And I think it's a very well-designed hand band, it's simple, sometimes simple things make things perfect.

                                             Image 4, The Jamaican style hand band
                                                                
The third of my collection is also a hand hand band with green yellow red colors; green yellow and red usually presents Jamaica, peace, hippies and reggae, but this hand band isn't from Jamaica, it's made in China and I bought it in China, I bought it cause it presents my personality that I'm a hippie girl.


The last collection of mine is a badge with a Bob Marley face, and also green yellow and red back ground.

                                                      Image 5, Bob Marley from Wikipedia
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945-11 may 1981) was a Jamaican singer-song writer and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963-1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.

                                           Image 6, Bob Marley badge
                                                       
Bob Marley used to be my favorite, and he still is. This badge is not from Jamaica either, it's from China and I think it's made in China as well, cause I got it when I was 12 in China, not within a long history either; also this badge is wearable for male and female, cause there are loads people who fancy him, boys, girls, ladies, gentle men, grandpas and grandmas...