CONTEXTONOMY

Cutting and pasting.

I just passed kindergarten with flying colours.

A+ for effort.









(Contextonomy: The practice of quoting out of context. A logical fallacy and type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning.)

LIFE DRAWING

Or lack there of.

One would assume that some form of drawing tuition would be of paramount importance to a drawing course. Apparently not. Life drawing is no longer part of the 2nd and 3rd year drawing curriculum at the Melbourne University Victorian College of the Arts and Music. It used to be, alas there is simply not enough funding to support this element of the course.

Jackie Chiles: It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
Cosmo Kramer: It's definitely preposterous.

So we've had to make do with what we've got. Drawing each other has become a common occurrence in the studios. This is what I've produced in response to the situation. Classes were conducted by Zac from 1st year sculpture, and Andre from 2nd year drawing.

STUDIO STUDIES

THE PAD
residency of Antonia and Olivia O'Donnellis.



Artist impression of the great master, Antonia
Sarah McConnell
March 2010
Felt tip marker and graphite on post-it


Hair Shrine
Olivia O'Donnell
2010
Human hair, pencil, tape and flowers on studio wall




Art history class is really informative and all... but it's dull...
and tedious...
and it always runs overtime...
and the best bit about it is Norbert's accent (Norbert is our lecturer) and exaggerated modes of expression (similar to the movement of the blow up tube men often seen flailing their bodies and limbs simultaneously outside car sales businesses or football matches).
And his nose.
He has an excellent, rip-snorter of a nose.





Clock in/clock out sheet for residents of THE FUN SIDE.



In the wise words of genius/artist, Bruce Nauman,

“If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.”













And when we need a break from all our pain and suffering, slaving away in the studios, we head down to Malthouse (the house of coffee, chai, tea, yo-yo's, brownies, procrastination, culture, wank, the most random assortment of background music ever compiled, financial loss, and awesomeness).