Swimming but drowning


Autoria(s): Haynes, Rachael Anne
Data(s)

2006

Resumo

This single-channel digital video work documents a performative event, the disintegrative process as a drawing-object is progressively submerged within water. This work forms part of a series of video works examining ephemerality within art and the iconoclastic impulse. This is informed by Gustav Metzger’s conceptualisation of auto-destructive art (1959) as that which contains within itself an agent, which automatically leads to its destruction. Here, the ontological moment of the work corresponds to its demise, investigating a symbiotic relationship between creation and destruction. It addresses the phenomenology and epistemology of destruction in art when presented by the artist, as both a process and an ethical position. The work was included in the group show 'The Construct', curated by Kris Carlon for Artworkers' Residency and Exhibition Project 2006 at the State Library of Queensland.

Formato

image/jpeg

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/48313/

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/48313/1/Haynes_Swimming_but_Drowning.jpg

http://www.artworkers.org/pdf/06%20AGM.pdf

Haynes, Rachael Anne (2006) Swimming but drowning. [Visual Artwork]

Direitos

Copyright 2006 Rachael Haynes

All rights reserved

Fonte

Art & Design; Creative Industries Faculty

Palavras-Chave #190500 VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS #190504 Performance and Installation Art #ephemerality #iconoclasm #video art #process in art
Tipo

Creative Work