After finding the video art of David Beckham sleeping by Sam Taylor Wood, I loved the idea of installation/video art and recorded myself asleep.
Sam Taylor-Wood is an English artist who works in either photographs or video projections. Her orchestrated scenarios are photographed in 360-degree angles or filmed in unedited, real-time narratives.
Another artist which I came across on Tumblr is Tilda Swinton. She is actually an actress, however decided to create a piece of art and slept in a glass box for 6 hours. I have found from information about the piece:
Tilda Swinton has reprised her occasional role as woman sleeping in glass box, this time taking the art-house performance to New York.
Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art were treated over the weekend to a view of the Scottish actor in a state of slumber for a piece titled The Maybe.
It is not the first time the Oscar-winner has been caught napping. The live art piece – a collaboration with friend Cornelia Parker – debuted at the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park in 1995. It was repeated a year later at the Museo Barracco in Rome.
On Saturday – after an absence of some years – Swinton reprised The Maybe, remaining in a glass box for some six-and-a-half hours.
Pictures of the event depicting the Burn After Reading star dressed in a light blue shirt, dark trousers and lying on white bedding. A pair on eyeglasses sat beside her.
In a brief description of the work, a notice by the installation states: "The Maybe 1995/2013. Living artist, glass, steel, mattress, pillow, linen, water and spectacles."
The installation will be an occasional feature at MoMA in the coming weeks, a museum spokeswoman told the Guardian.
But they are not saying in advance which days The Maybe will be on show.
MoMA said in a statement: "An integral part of The Maybe's incarnation at MoMA in 2013 is that there is no published schedule for its appearance, no artist's statement released, no museum statement beyond this brief context, no public profile or image issued. Those who find it chance upon it for themselves, live and in real – shared – time: now we see it, now we don't."
The Maybe - Art Installation
Tilda Swinton actually slept in a glass cabnit, as people walked around and watched her sleep. I think this takes a lot of courage to do and to actually sleep is remarkable.
She worked closely with Cornelia Parker, who I actually had in mind to look at, who produced the piece Cold Dark Matter:
Cornelia's Work
'Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) is composed of
the ragged fragments of a garden shed, which was blown up by the British Army
for the artist Cornelia Parker. It was a carefully orchestrated event that took
place in the grounds of the School of Ammunition near Banbury.'
'Previously the shed had been assembled in Chisenhale Gallery, in
London's East End. It was filled with objects that the artist had gleaned from
her own and friends' garden sheds and (the universal depository for unwanted
things) car boot sales. It was photographed in the gallery, exactly at the place
where the work would be first exhibited, then dismantled and taken away to be
blown up.' (Information)
So, the shed actually had meaning behind it before it was blown up and then assembled back together with a light in the middle of it, projecting the shadows onto the white walls. I am unsure to whether the artist actually recorded the work being blown up, however the part which matters the most is that the piece held meaning behind it, with belongings from friends and family.
I also like Cornelia's piece of work that relates to my musical interest, however is presented in an installation form:
Here, the trumpets are hung up and projected onto the walls with a light. I like this piece as it projects different shadows onto the wall.
