RCA Sculpture describes their course as “the study of sculpture is ever-expanding and includes object-making, public art and social practices, site and space, performance, sound, film and video. Rather than only considering the specific manifestations of sculpture, we prefer to think of it as a methodology from which to progress the production of art.” Here a mix of first and second year students share their current practice.
Artist: Yingming Chen
Description: A sculpture work which is based on the forms of four different types of traditional mooncake moulds used during the Mid-Autumn Festival.Utilising traditional techniques to construct the work and redefine the political value printed matter(Chinese newspaper) as a hidden message into the work. The project aims to question how cultural forms influence and affect the population, as well as normalisation of collectivism, whether culture is a tool of advocate people to follow a certain ideology.
Instagram: yingming_ art
Artist: Theodoros Papandreopoylos
Description: This piece is inspired by Judith's Butler book ''Gender trouble'' and more specifically in the idea of ''performativity''. I would like to explore contemporary representations of the body and open a discussion about why and how we define our body.
Instagram: teo_pap_andreopoulos
Artist: Jess Mardon
Description: Jess has created a device which enables the body to become the composer. She uses computing to demonstrate how new technologies break through screen-based interactions by bringing in the body. The work questions how dance could change the music if the music was created by the dance.
Instagram: @jess.mardon
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Artist: Sylke van der Heiden
Description: Dust all the Days
Link: https://www.sylkevanderheiden.com/dust-all-the-days
Dust all the Days is the first stage of an exploration in the relationship between Human and Snake by examining biblical and mythological stories. The human referring to the Woman the Snake as a metaphor of morality. In her practice, Sylke van der Heiden uses set, costume and sound to reimagine and retell these ancient stories from a female perspective.
instagram: @sylkevdheiden
Artist: Jenna Fox
Description: Living with…
I created a sculpture from recycled wood and beer cans and lived with the sculpture for three days. It was with me wherever I was - in the shower, at night at work and play. It was awkward, heavy (it weights 28 kg) and burdensome. I also filmed myself carrying this burden.
Watch the film: https://vimeo.com/499977620
Instagram: jennafoxartist // web site: https://jjfoxartist.weebly.com/
Artist: Mary Pedicini
"This work is fragmentary, words and pictures briefly combined to form a window into the story of the mythical figure of Sisyphus as it re-develops in me. Each rock is a surrogate for his boulder, each is covered for its own protection. Nevertheless, each erodes."
Instagram: @marypedicini // web: www.marypedicini.com
Artist: Jiachen Zeng
“Missing Home” project is based on JIACHEN ZENG'S experience with her family about space, belief, and memories. She uses TiltBrush in Virtual Reality to draw out the 4 rooms of her grandparents’ home each with the element of flags, oil, mold or dust, which are easily being neglected by her grandparents while are monumental in her mind. With the action she draws through Virtual Reality Device, and the interaction with the viewers, she wants to bring up the question of what do we really miss in our family.
3d Models Interactions and Downloads: https://sketchfab.com/jiachen.zeng
Documentation of VR Experience: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR5X1Vf3Z8seCQqhx1otZAqKDomdKAVIO
RCA WiP Show Page: https://wip2021.rca.ac.uk/students/jiachen-zeng
Web: www.jiax2.com // Instagram: @jiajia.zzz
Artist: Lester Korzilius
Description: What's Love Got to Do with It?
Faux fur, paper mache, fabric
87 x 53 x 42 cm
A juxtaposition of opposites challenges our sense of perception and understanding.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesterkorzilius/
Artist: Lea Rose Kara
Title: Error 2, monochrome plaster powder, 4.5 x 14.3 x 9 cm, 2021.
Description: My ‘Error’ project investigates the transformation of information from the physical into the virtual and vice versa. Born out of research into genetic sequencing and the relationship between the microscopic and microcosmic, this project explores whether technological errors, just like ‘errors’ in cell reproduction, can help us to reveal, understand and develop something new. My objective is to open debates around the accuracy of information presented to the public and the power that science has in moulding our understanding of the world.
Instagram: @learosekar
Artist: Patrick Jones
Title: Time Frame
Description: 175x40x60cm wood, mirrors and mild steel
Time Frame aims to both; freeze and transform time. Constructed to be both a mobile frame and portal, the work explores travelling to multiple sites to frame different temporalities of the landscape. On the one hand, the landscape seems frozen in the doubling of the frame, while on the other hand, it appears transformed to another time through the multiple worlds of the portal.
Instagram: psjjart
Artist: Kaori Jones
Title: Repair
Description: I am investigating the competitive interaction between natural and artificial materials and their changes over time after repair.
Instagram: kaorijart
Artist: Jiujan Zeng
Title: Forest
Description: The portrait of Ines Coelho da Silva progressed with ZOOM meeting. In the epidemic and post-epidemic era, virtual things invade every corner of our lives with an accelerating rate. While we try to connect with things themselves, new forms of social interaction related to the Internet of Things are slowly being born.
Medium: Resin, fabric, glass, lemon, plastic, pepper, seed, paper, photo, Size: 140*120*60cm)
Instagram: 9jan.zeng