Wed 10th Oct
This weeks visiting lecturer was Joseph Noonan Ganley. His interests are fashion and still life, studying how the mechanics and designs functions. His main inspiration was Joseph Cornell, who made Fem fabrications in Berlin. He likes to focus on topics such as, his sexuality and representing women. So to symbolise these he used flowers as an emblem. For one piece, he used half made flowers in boxes, with audio snippets of himself talking of memories, this gave a personal and nostalgic connection to the artwork. Stating that he is more interested in voices than physical art, due to the viewer being able to decide what they want to listen to. To expand upon this he created voice portraits of Cornell's lover, Jayce Hunter. The story goes that a waiter in Manhattan stole his work, but due to him wanting her as a lover, he gave her money and more pieces until the day she died. She was his first kiss and died a virgin. Ganley gathered this from secondary resources such as diaries and documents. From these he makes scripts, then puts them aside to record it naturally. Recently hes been including relating location noises too, this will increase the atmosphere in the exhibitions. For example, filming outside his house and from perspective. He likes to show meanings in his videos abstractly, like how he keeps his distance to show how he is distant from Cornell by only knowing him from records. He calls this method, following around dead artists. This consists of reading articles, diaries, interviewing and so on. This is usually all shown at the one exhibition.
Another piece he spoke to us about, inspired by fashion designer Charles James, was"The Cesspool of Rapture". Ganley focused on how the zip functions by illustrating them in blueprint form. In the exhibition he played snippets of James talking of his work and life, alongside images of his gowns and designs. This shows Ganley's love for videography. He was given 30 hours of Charles James talking, playing around with his camcorder. Writing everything he said into a script and then organising it into themes for different videos. All those hours whittled down to a few minuets.
This weeks visiting lecturer was Joseph Noonan Ganley. His interests are fashion and still life, studying how the mechanics and designs functions. His main inspiration was Joseph Cornell, who made Fem fabrications in Berlin. He likes to focus on topics such as, his sexuality and representing women. So to symbolise these he used flowers as an emblem. For one piece, he used half made flowers in boxes, with audio snippets of himself talking of memories, this gave a personal and nostalgic connection to the artwork. Stating that he is more interested in voices than physical art, due to the viewer being able to decide what they want to listen to. To expand upon this he created voice portraits of Cornell's lover, Jayce Hunter. The story goes that a waiter in Manhattan stole his work, but due to him wanting her as a lover, he gave her money and more pieces until the day she died. She was his first kiss and died a virgin. Ganley gathered this from secondary resources such as diaries and documents. From these he makes scripts, then puts them aside to record it naturally. Recently hes been including relating location noises too, this will increase the atmosphere in the exhibitions. For example, filming outside his house and from perspective. He likes to show meanings in his videos abstractly, like how he keeps his distance to show how he is distant from Cornell by only knowing him from records. He calls this method, following around dead artists. This consists of reading articles, diaries, interviewing and so on. This is usually all shown at the one exhibition.
Another piece he spoke to us about, inspired by fashion designer Charles James, was"The Cesspool of Rapture". Ganley focused on how the zip functions by illustrating them in blueprint form. In the exhibition he played snippets of James talking of his work and life, alongside images of his gowns and designs. This shows Ganley's love for videography. He was given 30 hours of Charles James talking, playing around with his camcorder. Writing everything he said into a script and then organising it into themes for different videos. All those hours whittled down to a few minuets.
The Cesspool of Rapture
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