Collaboration Project

I worked with Guang.

“Teaching method of glazing and experiment of new glaze.”

1.Aim/Outcomes

Yuta- getting inspiration from teaching.

Guang- learning glazing.

Joint aim- making new glaze recipe.

２.Role

Yuta teaches glazing to Guang.

Making new glaze together.

3.Methodology

Every Monday morning.

We are going to make some glaze test pieces together.

Evaluation 

We made some new glazes. Actually, creating glazes needs professional knowledge of glaze. I worked with Guang who does not have knowledge of glaze and I could not get any inspiration from him to made new glazes. I understand I have to study glaze by myself to make new glaze through this project.  I do not think collaboration always give us benefit.  And the  important problem of this project was that I have not chosen my partner by myself. I have to choose a partner who will give me benefit by myself, If I need collaboration.

Making miniature tea pots

I made miniature tea pots. I thought it could be good practice for my throwing.

Movie -Making process of miniature pots-

I took movie of making process of miniature pots. Showing this movie with physical object will be  good presentation. It is expected audience understand techniques of making miniatures.

The relationship between artist's bodies and material

I have explored the relationship between human bodies and material in the past two month. but It is very wide area and I decided I am going to focus on the relationship between artist's bodies and material. It means the relationship between my body and clay in the making process.  I think I can make something new by focusing on only this aspect.

Naked Body, Throwing

Aim

○To explore the new relationship between human bodies and clay.

○Using naked bodies make my works that focus on human bodies and clay clear.

Problem and Task

○I am mainly focus on the relationship between artist's bodies and material. but it is not.

○Colour of clay. I used gold and silver clay, but it does not look clay.

Kate Gilmore

Kate Gilmore (born 1975) is an artist who work with clay.   She explore the relationship between human bodies and material. I thought this area has been  explored by many artists  1960's and 1970's. However, her work looks innovative and novel expression. The point of her work is all performer in her video work is female and they wear  feminine dresses.   She add new element "feminine" to old theme that is the relationship  between human bodies and material. 

Repetition Throwing Tomato

I thought a lot of artist have explored the relationship between human bodies and materials. I thought have to add new element to my project. Sigmar Polke used potatoes as material to make sculpture. 

                            Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke

Oscar said he felt a kind of irony from my works and it looks like attacking traditional ceramics. I  tried to made works that looked like attacking ceramics.  I chose tomato, because sometimes tomato looks violence and throwing tomato has a lot of cultural meaning. 

However, this work is very complicated. Adding another element to my project might make my works unclear. I have to think about main point of my works.

La Tomatina