Jon Cuba:
(you should look at all his work though)

http://cargocollective.com/joncuba/787484

Louise Bourgeois used knotting in both her two dimensional and three dimensional work

Shinkichi Tajiri (b. 1923 in Netherlands)

• on wikipedia
• The Knot [1976]
• Friendship Knot

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (b. 1934 in Sweden)

• Non-violence (also on Google Image)

Eva Hesse (b. 1936 in Germany)

• Untitled (Rope Piece) [1970]

Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940 in Japan)

• works on ArtNet

Marina Abramović (b. 1946 in Serbia)

• Relation in Time [1977/2010]

Michael Beitz (b. 19xx in xx)

• Knot [19xx]

Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971 in Constantine, Algeria)

• Telle mère tel fils [2008]

Paul Loebach (b. 1972 in Germany)

• Watson [2011]

Henry Darger

To Escape Forest Fires They Enter A Volcanic Cavern…

53 at Jennie Richee Assuming Nude Appearance

At Jennie Turner Children Ties to Trees…   (more…)

This is Philippe Petit, a french high-wire artist. He made a famous traversal of the twin towers on tightrope in 1974. I think many parts of this performance apply to our current assignment on ‘comfort’. It also brings up a distinction between performance and performance art. How would you categorize Petit? An artist or a showman?

There was also an academy award winning documentary on Petit, “Man on Wire”: http://www.manonwire.com/

Since this week is about knot making, I thought it would be nice to share an artist who works with pins and threads, Debbie Smith. Her work is entirely made up of these two materials, creating a big-scale scenery. The treatment and exhibition of the media change our perception of the materials as more artful forms.

The concept behind my first project was to illustrate in a non literal sense the progression an animal makes from living organism to edible, and the fact that the essential identity of the animal flesh does not change even though the name transforms. The tessellated origami form  was used to convey a sense of structural soundness, essentially creating an atmospheric “world”, a representation of the throat through which the animal, in the form of meat, passes through.

Laban Movement Analysis, named after French/Hungarian dance artist and theorist Rudolf Laban.

Diagram by Ali Momeni

Knot-making references

• http://www.animatedknots.com/
• iPhone app: Grog Knotts

Here are images of the process and the outcome of my experimentation for this assignment. I was really inspired by Richard Sweeney‘s studies on paper folding. There was this certain complexity in areas that somehow expressed simplicity and elegance in its complete form. I thought this came for the repetition of accurate folds that lead for the paper to transform into a very dimensional form. I started from a small piece of paper and created simple folds. From that I tried some complex folds. Then I worked with bigger sheets of paper and created multiple folds. This lead to me create a sculptural piece, which somewhat resembled Sweeney’s works.

Stumbled upon the work of Tara Donovan while working on my project.  Really got me thinking about medium and how different materials can have different connotations.

More of her work here.