Changing Direction

I have been exploring an array of concepts and forms where undo applies, from this I was inspired and thought about the forms I would like my FMP to take, and what form would be most appropriate in communicating what I want to say. I have decided to explore the word Annul in relation to my trigger word, however I have decided to explore it in terms of Marriage. I would like to explore the breakdown of marriage and divorce. Although this project has taken a different direction the idea was inspired by researching and exploring 'undo.' Here are my favourite discoveries from researching undo...


Since Hurricane Katrina, refuse and squalor have inspired a popular aesthetic in the art world. There’s a laissez-faire decadence in a work like Peter Garfied’s “One: Number 31, 1950” (2008) sculpture at Pierogi Brooklyn (below).



The Destroyed Room 1978
'My first pictures like The Destroyed Room emerged from a re-encounter with nineteenth-century art', Wall has said. Here, the work in question is The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) by Eugène Delacroix, which depicts the Assyrian monarch on his deathbed, commanding the destruction of his possessions and slaughter of his concubines in a last act of defiance against invading armies



Artist Michael Landy, who once destroyed his possessions in the name of art, has turned a gallery into a giant bin for the disposal of artworks. Over the next six weeks, hundreds of works by artists both famous and unknown will be dumped in the "Art Bin" at the South London Gallery.
So far, pieces by Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, have been thrown away.
Landy said he hoped the bin would gradually fill up to create "a monument to creative failure".
Hierarchy
Members of the public have been invited to submit their own work for consideration, and they could end up in the giant container next to work by better-known artists.
"Some of this stuff is worth a lot in the outside world, but in the bin then it has no value, it has no worth," Landy told the BBC.
"In the outside world there is a certain hierarchy. In the bin there is no hierarchy, so everything is treated the same."



The Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) was a gathering of a diverse group of international artists, poets, and scientists to London, from 9-11 September, 1966. Included in this number were representatives of the counter-cultural underground who were there to speak on the theme of destruction in art.
The Honorary Committee, led by Gustav Metzger, attracted the attention of both the international media and international art community to the symposium.[1]