Stuart Brisley, Tate Liverpool, Text into my work (Unit 7)

While at the Tate Liverpool for three days filming Mondreans Studios being re-created i saw some work by Stuart Brisley entitled "ZL636595". It is a performance piece that results in an exhibition of twelve photographs, black and white, on paper and three typescripts on paper.

Upon first viewing i found it really curious, the typescripts were lists of the variables in a controlled experiment and performance piece, definitions of distinctive and chosen words (survive and exist) and a  set of declarations and agreements by the artist as results of the piece.

"ZL636595" Tate, Liverpool

Photograph

The typescripts are important to me because they are going to be inspired from and put into my own exhibition. Once i had put out my scanner and my photographs up on display, i think that it needed something to break up its visual and make what I'm trying to communicate more precise. Text was my first and i think best idea to do this. Especially since i had seen Stuart Brisley's work before hand and it was a lot to take from.

This is one of the three typescripts from the exhibition.

Typescript 1/3

The font, the texture and the format is what i think would work with my scans.

Now, the content of this typescript is a kinda of report responding to his experimental piece. When i build text to put into my work the idea of building aesthetics through pixels and also the quite significant big ideas surrounding bee's. I haven't gone too far into why bee's have been chosen to scan because at first i just used what was most accessible. But that in itself means a lot about bees, that they were so easy to find, so close to where i was lay dead. From this I've actually decided to report on the condition of the bees (like Stuart has) like a report from whence i found them.

Also i feel coincidently that the significance of existing and survival mean a lot with the bee's, so I'm going to steal variations of definition from Stuarts report (1/3 above). As well as copying the overall format.

Typescript 2/3

Here Stuart has listed to conditions of his performance experiment. I am going to list the conditions of my bees, from once they had been found till what they are now.