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* Respond article

I thought that the criticism was just saying what I think about the work. However, after this reading I could think about the ways of criticizing again. Especially, after I criticized, I could not always know of my criticism was clearly stated. Now, I think I can approach criticism easily and simply when I criticize some pieces by clearly stating my personal reaction and then formal analysis of structure.


*Respond Art21

Why I chose Tim Hawkinson was that I was interested in the relationships of space and sounds in his work. I can find things we think to be incompatible are harmonized, so we can sympathize. In other hands, the different materials can have relationships.
First of all, the piece I saw for the first time was a person’s expression of emotion using each piece of picture and machines. Most people think that a machine looks cold, stiff, and unemotional, but he related machine and expression. Then, we can have fun and movement when we see the expression using the machine. I think this is very strange to happen because we can have movement through a machine with no emotion. I saw other works about the human body. Actually they were about body relationship, but what I was interested in was what he used for his work. For example, he used various pencils for expressing the blood vessels of a big toe. I could find harmony between the living things and the unliving things.
Second, I saw the relationship with space and music. In Art:21, he was very interested in music. So, he started to work using various materials to make sounds. These materials were unexpected, but the sound they make is very beautiful, like raining sounds. He started this art from a three-dimensional drawing. The drawing used pencils and span around, so in his real work, he was spinning huge vinyls.
In Moss Mola NorthAdams, his exhibition was horn balloons. These works were my favorite thing in his art because at the video showing, everyone in the exhibition hall enjoyed his work. As he said, they could dance seeing and listening to his structures. We could just see the surface of it, but inside of his work there was another space, so they could make sounds.
Thus, I think it is important for him ad his art to exist with unusual materials relationships even though the materials in the relationships are unexpected, because we can respond to his work with enjoyment. Maybe he can enjoy himself doing his work, so we can have fun.


by YunJi Jeong