Terence McKenna - Collective Skin of Our Culture - Aslan Osiris

Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system

watch this! I found this video by Terence Mckenna on you tube, he has some amazing ideas about culture and being human... maybe we could think about some of them for our project! let us know what you think x

Louise's artwork and ideas.

My work evolves around ideas about the human body form and spiritual form.I use these queries in questioning my own 'being' or 'existence' in the world. My quest is to try and find some kind of understanding of my life in context with my own psychological exploration and experiences through memory. I am thinking about my develpoment from childhood to adulthood and the struggles that this can encounter. I would be interested in doing something that evolves around identity and maybe different characters in society and how this takes part in a cultural community. I think it would be good to use media that we can all take part in.

Wangechi Mutu- artist research!

Hey group! i havent got the slightest clue how to use this thing! It really needs to be customised and stuff but i cant work out how to do it :S so if we can have a get together somtime next week??? and if anyone could make some adjustments if they know how to then that would be good! I just found this artist called Wangechi Mutu as ive been looking into collage at the moment and i really like some of her stuff so i thought id share with you guys to see what you think? She uses materials from fashion magazines, national geographic, and books about African art. She pieces together figures which are both elegant and perverse. The individual body parts are made to seem like odd prosthetics glued over torsoa and limbs drawn in ink. She uses these conflicting textures to draw a wide range of connotations, from glamour models to dyed fabrics, diseased skin and science fiction special effects.

If you like this work and want to read up further you can find quite a good account on the saatchi gallery website. Let us know what you think? It might be good if we are thinking about a multi- cultural society? does anyone have any ideas?

thannnkksss. Louise xx

Lets make a 3 S.T.ART!

Now the blog has been set up, we just need to make a start on some ideas and themes for our project!