Research
I have started to do some research for the destructive art project and found a webpage on Gustav Metzger on auto destructive art. This manifesto below helped me define a better understanding of what auto destructive art is.
Gustav Metzger: Auto-Destructive Art (1959)
Auto-destructive art is primarily a form of public
art for industrial societies.
Self-destructive painting, sculpture and
construction is a total unity of idea, site, form, colour, method, and timing
of the disintegrative process.
Auto-destructive art can be created with natural
forces, traditional art techniques and technological techniques.
The amplified sound of the auto-destructive process
can be an element of the total conception.
The artist may collaborate with scientists,
engineers.
Self-destructive art can be machine produced and
factory assembled.
Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and
constructions have a life time varying from a few moments to twenty years. When
the disintegrative process is complete the work is to be removed from the site
and scrapped.
Gustav Metzger: Manifesto Auto-Destructive
Art (1960)
Man In Regent Street is auto-destructive.
Rockets, nuclear weapons, are auto-destructive.
Auto-destructive art.
Thedropping of HH bombs.
Not interested in ruins, (the picturesque)
Auto-destructive art re-enacts the obsession with
destruction, the pummeling to which individuals and masses are subjected.
Auto-destructive art demonstrates man's power to
accelerate disintegrative processes of nature and to order them.
Auto-destructive art mirrors the compulsive
perfectionism of arms manufacture - polishing to destruction point.
Auto-destructive art is the transformation of
technology into public art. The immense productive capacity, the chaos of
capitalism and of Soviet communism, the co-existence of surplus and starvation;
the increasing stock-piling of nuclear weapons - more than enough to destroy
technological societies; the disintegrative effect of machinery and of life in
vast built-up areas on the person,...
Auto-destructive art is art which contains within
itself an agent which automatically leads to its destruction within a period of
time not to exceed twenty years. Other forms of auto-destructive art involve
manual manipulation. There are forms of auto-destructive art where the artist
has a tight control over the nature and timing of the disintegrative process,
and there are other forms where the artist's control is slight.
Materials
and techniques used in creating auto-destructive art include: Acid, Adhesives,
Ballistics, Canvas, Clay, Combustion, Compression, Concrete, Corrosion, Cybernetics,
Drop, Elasticity, Electricity, Electrolysis, Feed-Back, Glass, Heat, Human
Energy, Ice, Jet, Light, Load, Mass-production, Metal, Motion Picture, Natural
Forces, Nuclear Energy, Paint, Paper, Photography, Plaster, Plastics, Pressure,
Radiation, Sand, Solar Energy, Sound, Steam, Stress, Terra-cotta, Vibration,
Water, Welding, Wire, Wood.
Gustav
Metzger: Auto-Destructive Art Machine Art Auto-Creative Art (1961)
Each
visible fact absolutely expresses its reality.
Certain
machine produced forms are the most perfect forms of our period.
In the
evenings some of the finest works of art produced now are dumped on the streets
of Soho.
Auto
creative art is art of change, growth movement.
Auto-destructive
art and auto creative art aim at the integration of art with the advances of
science and technology. The immediate objective is the creation, with the aid
of computers, of works of art whose movements are programmed and include
"self-regulation". The spectator, by means of electronic devices can
have a direct bearing on the action of these works.
Auto-destructive
art is an attack on capitalist values and the drive to nuclear
annihilation.
Modelling for Moulding
Having recently been doing research on the futurist moment from early modernism for my contextual studies report i decided to read the futurist technical manifesto and then to put into practice my interpretation of what i have read, I then choose to model a figurative female busk of which i intend to make a rubber mould from and to cast several plaster of paris casts of the figure and then dissect them and rearrange to a new composition. Once i have achieved this i intend to make another rubber mould so i can then cast my result as a solid piece ( project ongoing), Theses are the pictures below of my initial model.
late last year in term 1 2015 I partook in workshops on plaster cast moulds made from a clay plug intended to be used once to cast a cement reproduction of the clay plug, i choose to model and cast a stylised banana as seen in the picture below of the finished cement painted up cast
Site Specific Sculpture Brief
Having thought about the brief, the lofty open space in our studio at university felt empty so i decided that would be the space for my installation. The brief also outlined a wish to incorporate a sense of movement, i decided to create a human figure in free fall having taken a leap of faith, below are some pictures in construction, i decided to construct the figure using steel wire
Now the figure is completed i intend to suspend it from the studio roof structure in the year 1 studio at university i will photograph it in situ after suspension.
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