The 4th Auckland Triennal

The Singing Cloud!

At the 4th Auckland Triennal one of the many collections of art works that stood out for me the most at this art gallery was the singing cloud. Created by Shilp Gupta the singing cloud transforms an audio of technology into a looming mass, weirdly reminisints of a bomb or a mushroom cloud. The singing cloud was made up of four thousand microphones wich it made multiple layers of sounds and voices. For me though the sounds and noises coming from the singing cloud gave me shivers up my spine,because of the fact that all these noises were going off from time to time. It gave that sense of feeling almost as if i was being watched or talked about by something that wasn't really there, given the fact that the room was dark, It made that effect of it much more realistic. But still i found the singing cloud amazing and very creative. so i really admire and appreciate Shilp Gulta for this piece of artwork. Shilpa Gupta was born in Mumbai ,India 1976. She studied sculpture at the sir J.J. school of fine arts from 1992-1997. Gupta creates artwork using interactive video, websites, objects, sound and photographs.In 2004 she received two awards for her amazing artwork, one was the sanskriti pathisthan award in new Dehli, and the international artist of the year award from the south asian collectives in Canada.

The Male Gaze part1

For me personally we can all relate to the term gaze because we all do it. we can't help but look at something that looks fascinating and attractive,because it attracts our attention.We all no that its naturally in us to do this!!. we can't help but to take a look at the curves of a woman, because it is something we enjoy. The male gaze expresses an unequal power between the veiwer and veiwed or the gazer and gazed, example when a man would impoze his unwanted gaze upon a woman, its up to the woman wether or not they welcome the gaze. so we all no that it is naturally in us to gaze like this!!. We can't just carry on walking by without taking a look at the curves or figure of a woman. So to me personally the male gaze is such an interesing thing to do because from a womans point of veiw it makes them fell attracted and noticed!!..well thats what i think.............



Tutorial "vertigo" by Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

In the movie"Vertigo" by alfred hitchcock we explore more about"the male gaze in this movie. The movie Vertigo is about an ex private investigator (John) who gets asked from his good friend to follow this woman(Madeline), his friends wife, during the half hour of this movie. They would always show us the veiw of John as he follows around this woman Madeline. Madeline would be followed to many different places by John never to be gazing back at him even though she knew he was there. Although in this one scene of the film Madeline who was still being followed at the time, takes John to this art gallery and Madeline is sitting down on this chair gazing at this image. John who had still been follwoing her notices that in the art gallery the image that Madeline seems to gazing at seems to be gazing right at John. He then also notices that this painting they are both gazing upon seems to what looks exactly like Madeline. So John decides to further on his investigation not only on Madeline but also on this Painting. He later on comes to find out that the painting that was in that gallery was a painting of a woman who had passed away, and realises that Madeline was trying to reinact the life of this woman.