Marilene Oliver - I Know You Inside Out Man - 2001. Marilene Oliver - Research Statement. (Royal College of Art 2007) In 2001 I made a sculpture called I know you inside out. I know you inside out is a reconstruction of a 39-year old convicted murderer named Joseph Paul Jernigan, who prior to his execution, was persuaded to donate his body to medical science in order to become the ‘Visible Human’, a dataset of cryosections, CT scans and MRI scans.
My desire to create a sculpture of Jernigan was not anatomical nor medical – I was fascinated by the virtuality of the Visible Human – in becoming ‘visible’, Jernigan’s body was converted from flesh to voxel: in order to create the dataset Jernigan’s corpse was frozen and sliced so finely that it disintegrated to mush, leaving only digital photographs and scans. The images of his body where uploaded onto the Internet allowing him to be viewed at anytime and any place (but never all at once), he was under constant threat of being copied or translated. I work with different datasets in order to compare and contrast them. Recordare | Independent Film Show 2009. Lisa Nilsson - Tissue Series. 360° Fulldome Projection - Visible Human Project. Ewen Ross « Art Blart. Exhibition dates: 14th July – 8th August 2010 Many thankx to Anita from Anita Traverso Gallery for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting and to Geraldine Barlow for allowing me to publish the catalogue essay, all very much appreciated.
Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Ewen Ross‘Plain of Mars’ from the ‘Warrina Portraits’ series 2010 There is little more to say about this exhibition of works by Ewen Ross than the erudite catalogue essay by Geraldine Barlow enunciates (see essay below), except to say that the ‘presence’ of these works is extremely moving. It is difficult when viewing photographs of the work to explain the physical impact of actually standing in front of these works, absorbing their energy, examining their surfaces, their depths.
Barlow asks. “Is this matter, or its coded representation? Ross does indeed set up a liquid movement between matter and representation. Marcus Bunyan for the Art Blart blog Body and Text Curtis, Neal. Cargo. 12:31. Gregory Little--Building myself a "The Body w/o Organs"--1999-? Body Baroque. [Image: Yousef Al-Mehdari]. A few weeks ago I mentioned some 3D-printed work by Yousef Al-Mehdari, a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture. That work is now pictured here, in a proposal for a site on the island republic of Malta. [Image: Malta, just south of Sicily, in the exact center of the image]. The project explores religious ritual and the human body, alongside an interest in "transitory sculptures," processional routes, and a kind of body-futurist rediscovery of architectural ornament.
Al-Mehdari suggests that a careful – even mathematically exact – study of human bodily movement could serve as a basis for generating new types of architectural form. [Images: Yousef Al-Mehdari]. It's the Visible Human Project as building typology: Vesalius meets Vitruvius in an era of computed tomography and RHINO.
[Images: The Visible Human Project]. This further implies, however, that this project might be materially realizable in stone. That is, no one is talking about weathering. 12:31 - the visible human project as a photographic series.