What is the relationship between the environment and the body and the importance of the use of materials to embody the environment regarding these two artists Ben Skinner and Orianna Haddad?
In this essay I will examine what is the relationship between the environment and the body and the important of the use of materials to embody the environment regarding these two artists Ben Skinner and Orianna Haddad. I will be looking at one piece for each artist and analysing and comparing how these two artists use the embodiment of the environment and how they use their body as a material or to use the body as a tool. The two pieces that I will be looking at is Craftsman by Ben Skinner and Make my skin by Orianna Haddad. Both artists work in the dance …show more content…
“This project generates a method through which the art of living is an art of embodiment: the ability of the body to explore new environmental stimuli, such that we come to embody new experiences of reality” ( Haddad, 2016) in regards to this quote Orianna Haddad uses the idea of stepping away from what an everyday body would do in the city and letting go of the normal way of moving which is where you create movement in reality which then creates a link to the relationship between the body and the environment. When she photographs these environments that you would not normally see it shows that she wants to bring attention to these environments that people would have noticed in a detail before which can relate to other artists who work in buildings that are about to be demolished. With her main concept being embodiment, she believes that it starts with the skin and that you should only go into the space when the skin is ready to be touched. While doing the embodiment of environment she believes and wants to show the right to your own body as when doing ordinary everyday …show more content…
“how constraints imposed by architecture force inhabitants to adopt alternative patterns and how the fluidity of built surroundings makes them reconsider their own routines, identities and relationships as well as their interactions with time and each other.” (Madlener, 2017 ) this concept is a very different way of looking at embodying the environment and how using architecture as a performance, Orianna Haddad uses the embodiment of the environment but this concept can relate to Orianna Haddad as they both use the idea of showing different ways in showing the relationship between the body and the environment but both of these artists work in very different ways as Haddad uses photography and Schweder uses performance in a museum by creating a building so they both have different ways to show this concept as the audience will see Haddad’s work online and they will see Schweder in a Museum but he also has documented his work by using photography, he has also done a
In this essay I will examine what is the relationship between the environment and the body and the important of the use of materials to embody the environment regarding these two artists Ben Skinner and Orianna Haddad. I will be looking at one piece for each artist and analysing and comparing how these two artists use the embodiment of the environment and how they use their body as a material or to use the body as a tool. The two pieces that I will be looking at is Craftsman by Ben Skinner and Make my skin by Orianna Haddad. Both artists work in the dance …show more content…
“This project generates a method through which the art of living is an art of embodiment: the ability of the body to explore new environmental stimuli, such that we come to embody new experiences of reality” ( Haddad, 2016) in regards to this quote Orianna Haddad uses the idea of stepping away from what an everyday body would do in the city and letting go of the normal way of moving which is where you create movement in reality which then creates a link to the relationship between the body and the environment. When she photographs these environments that you would not normally see it shows that she wants to bring attention to these environments that people would have noticed in a detail before which can relate to other artists who work in buildings that are about to be demolished. With her main concept being embodiment, she believes that it starts with the skin and that you should only go into the space when the skin is ready to be touched. While doing the embodiment of environment she believes and wants to show the right to your own body as when doing ordinary everyday …show more content…
“how constraints imposed by architecture force inhabitants to adopt alternative patterns and how the fluidity of built surroundings makes them reconsider their own routines, identities and relationships as well as their interactions with time and each other.” (Madlener, 2017 ) this concept is a very different way of looking at embodying the environment and how using architecture as a performance, Orianna Haddad uses the embodiment of the environment but this concept can relate to Orianna Haddad as they both use the idea of showing different ways in showing the relationship between the body and the environment but both of these artists work in very different ways as Haddad uses photography and Schweder uses performance in a museum by creating a building so they both have different ways to show this concept as the audience will see Haddad’s work online and they will see Schweder in a Museum but he also has documented his work by using photography, he has also done a