TAPE ART
What
is “tape art”? Tape art is a recent art form born in the United States and most
prominent within the street art. Rather than using spray paint and templates sticky
tape (vinyl or duct) is used in any colour and size. Tape art gives a certain
temporariness and cleanliness to its creations.
However, unlike
most street art which is set outdoors tape art is often indoors. A primary
example of this is Jim Lambie's work, a Glaswegian
artist who uses tape to create his colourful installations within museums and
art galleries. He was nominated for the Turner Prize (the art world Oscars) for one of
his vinyl tape installations. Here is a video where Lambie talks about his
work.
So, tape art is not only for entertainment or decoration, but it can be actual art.
For your next task you are going to work in groups.
Each group should be made up of six or seven people with the goal of creating your
own tape art project somewhere within the school e.g. on a wall, a door, a
column or something like that.
To begin with, each member of the group should work
individually. Using the examples shown in the classroom for inspiration, each
student is going to make some sketches of their ideas.
Once that is completed each group should have a brainstorming
session to come up with a common idea based on one or more of your individual
ideas. You could do this in a number of ways – you could choose the idea you
like the best, or you could combine some of them, or you could even create a
new one from all group members drawings – it is entirely up to you (But remember to take into account that your
project isn’t just about making a drawing but also choosing a space within the
school where it’ll fit).
Once the project idea has been decided upon (and after
you have double-checked with me that it is fine), each group has to make a blueprint
plan of the future art work on an A3 sheet of paper (using an axonometric
perspective of the room where the project is set). You’ll need to also make a
model of the space using things like cardboard, shoe boxes, cereal boxes, magazines,
newspapers etc, by applying at least three different visual textures made with
the technique of “frottage” (as explained in the class).
After that each group will make a presentation of
their work to the rest of the class which will include the plan and the model,
and an explanation of the artwork itself included, but not limited to, where it
is going to be placed, the kind and colour of tape that you are going to use
etc
The last stage is the actual tape art work itself
which should now be quite straightforward due to your thorough
forward-planning.
If you need more inspiration, you can check these
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