Christian Andersson's style of work is known to be very sophisticated. The surface of his art is expresses with a strikingly elegant way of execution, where his sculptural and installatory elements contain an aesthetic environment that provokes a seductive visual finish. He has mastered in integrating light and shadows, and surfaces such as mute, transparent, reflective, and fluorescent, this often serves in highlighting a theme that has been central through out art history.

"In the corner of the room a piece of space is enclosed behind a group of film-/photo-studio lights. The space holds what resembles a frozen moment in time; A brick seems to float in the air after bursting its way out from the wall. A hole is gaping in the wall behind the brick and debris are fixed in the air in front of it. The piece becomes a distant yet present collapse of structures. Maybe the structure of the wall is about to fall apart, and we’re watching the ignition spark of that very convergence. We also experience two different time modes colliding; Our real time is confronted with a still, or a motion too slow to follow.

1:1 borrows its language from a mix between classic museum dioramas used to mimic scenes from nature or history, and recent digital effects where the visual reality is further bent by presenting “impossible” pannings and split time lapses.

The brick and the splinters are painted styrofoam models suspended in invisible strings, often used by magicians to create “levitating” objects in card tricks, etc. The back wall with the hole is constructed using wood, plasterboard and styrofoam."


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proposal

My performance consisted of writing down an emotion and sharing it with your partner by performing your partners emotion. It took place outside where the performers stepped 15 feet back and express their partners written emotion. I feel that this performance was successful and I liked the outcome I received from the Victor and Vicki. It allowed them to express what there partner was feeling or thinking 1 min prior to swapping the sheets of emotions. They seemed have fun and performed it as I expected.

Directions
1. Write an emotion on piece of paper
2. Fold up the sheet of paper
3. Go outside
4. Give your paper to your partner
5. Both you and your partner step back 15 steps
6. Open up the note and make that emotion
7. Performance is over when you both can see each other emotions

In response to Vicks performance I was not really clear on the concept of the performance. After the third time he explained the directions I realized that the simplicity of is was made it hard to comprehend. I had fun with ducking and clapping while not touching the wall. The idea did seem to be more creative then the actual performance.

The performance I performed from Vickies proposal had a much different concept than Vicks. The partners interacted with each other more creating a more emotional and authentic performance rather than just taking directions. I had to create a rhythm while doing crunches with my partner. It was fun new and a i had fun with exploring a different way to create a rhythm.