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This is my blog for my first year journal on the Interacitve Arts course at the Manchester School of Art. I dont really know what to put on it so it will probably be a bit of everything, my work, work and things that inspire me and any ideas i might have.

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Installation


When thinking about my exhibition and how I was going to show the books I have made, I started thinking about what it was that made me want to change books and make them come to life. it was the idea of imagination, and how reading books can make u conjur up sights, smells and sounds all from the story on the page. This idea of childhood imagination made me think about who would read the books, and the books that I have are all about adventure and strange creatures, and I could just imagin a little boy from the past reading them, a sort of real life peter pan, living through his books and bringing them to life with his imagination. This has lead me to the idea of doing an istallation of his bed-side table, for this I thought about Tracey Emin's "Unmade bed" I think this would be a good idea to follow, but including the veiwer to participate in the piece by picking the books up and looking at them to see what they do.

Yuken Teruya


Is an artists based in New York, he make intricate paper sculptures, inside books and other objects. This has made me think about the details you could have inside books, and what you can make out of them, I like while they are not strictly pop up books they are still related to my project, as they are all about imagination and telling stories about his home of Okinawa

Cara Berer


Cara Barer is a photographer who was doing a project about books and their changing appearance, "A random encounter on Drew Street with the Houston Yellow Pages was the primary inspiration for this project. After that chance meeting, I began the search for more books, and more methods to change their appearance" 

I just really like the idea of changing books into unexpected things and I think this is similar to my project, with the idea of books being able to surprise people.