LullabybyLala

Photographing the artist and their work

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:07:51 +0200

Local photographer Nicole Olwagen and assistant Olivia Mortimer took photos of me and my installations.

Their Photography page: http://www.facebook.com/beyondthecloudsphotography?fref=ts

My art page: http://www.facebook.com/LalaCraffordArt?fref=ts

Painting again

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:11:00 +0200

I have recently finished this portrait of Louwrens Ferreira, a talented musician and my loving boyfreind:

Click for my portfolio

Live visuals

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:16:00 +0200

I will be doing live visuals for Vampire9000 at this awesome event!
http://www.facebook.com/events/336243016474551/

Carsten Nicolai describes the effect of one of his artworks: “like in a fata morgana [mirage]...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:37:57 +0200

Carsten Nicolai describes the effect of one of his artworks: “like in a fata morgana [mirage] we can see fluctuations of air thus realizing that we are not surrounded by empty space but by a physically flexible matter.” http://www.carstennicolai.de/?c=works&w=thermi

Kelly (2011:14) applies the phrase “we cannot close our ears” to emphasise the significance of the...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:47:17 +0300

Kelly (2011:14) applies the phrase “we cannot close our ears” to emphasise the significance of the auditory sense in the art world.

Kelly, C (ed). 2011. Sound (Documents of contemporary art). London/ Massachusetts: Whitechapel and MIT Press.

Click here for Lala Crafford Art page on facebook

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:20:00 +0300

Click here for Lala Crafford Art page on facebook

Photo taken by Carla Crafford at my Open Studio exhibition in...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:25:51 +0200

Photo taken by Carla Crafford at my Open Studio exhibition in Paris, Cite Internationale des Arts. Click to enlarge!

please click to enlarge and view invite

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:07:00 +0200

please click to enlarge and view invite

Vera Rohm said that her work is "inhabited by shadows"

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:30:00 +0200

I believe this to be true of my work too. For example:

Photo taken by Carla Crafford at my final year exhibition, October 2011

The lights are so installed as to change colour and so that when one’s shadow joins the shadows of the objects in the installation, different colours of shadows overlap.

FIN!

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:04:45 +0200

I’m finally done with my Honours in Fine Arts. The 30th of November I’m leaving for the artist residency in Paris, Cite Internationale des arts. Can’t wait! I will soon post images of the final exhibition.

Within the installation

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:02:00 +0300

Just a few photos so that one can get a general idea of the atmospheric content of my installations

I can’t wait for the exhibition!

Working hard on my installations for final year exhibition on...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:56:00 +0300

Working hard on my installations for final year exhibition on the 19th of October 2011!

Working hard on the final installation for final...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:32:00 +0300

Working hard on the final installation for final year exhibition on 19th October 2011!

"…there is no place where I am not simultaneous with the heard."

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:51:54 +0300

“…there is no place where I am not simultaneous with the heard.”

- Salome Voegelin, in Listening to Noise and Silence: Toward a Philosophy of Sound Art.

More shadow-play at my In Tune Audio-visual installation.

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:20:00 +0300

More shadow-play at my In Tune Audio-visual installation.

Outline of chapters for my research paper:

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:45:00 +0300

The first chapter of this study discusses the history of sound in the arts as well as socio-political circumstances that influenced the auditory sensation of sound, noise and music. This is discussed within the framework of past and reoccurring artistic movements in combination with changes in musical history. This chapter also intends to indicate a shift from purely ‘visual’ art to ‘audiovisual’ art, as well as the change in spaces (such as gallery spaces) in which both mediums are presented or exhibited. The second chapter aims to establish the properties or principles of sound art in comparison with or as identified in the visual arts, with reference to theories such as Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory on ‘relational aesthetics’. The third chapter applies aforementioned theories to the iconography and iconology of chosen artworks. This chapter aims to show the underrated presence of the corresponding relationship between the cross-disciplinary fields of the visual and the auditory, and how the combination of the two ultimately enhance atmospheric or embodied experiences of installation art, performance art, music, sound art and ‘soundscapes’.

I shouldn’t be killing time when it is the lack of time that will be the death of me.

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:54:11 +0300

I shouldn’t be killing time when it is the lack of time that will be the death of me.

Another photo taken at my most recent audiovisual installation...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:41:00 +0300

Another photo taken at my most recent audiovisual installation piece, these are some of the revolving reflections that fall on the wall.

"Sound art is not ‘‘sound art’’, it is art that utilises sound to, as Ranciere notes, play the ‘‘game..."

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:54:00 +0300

“Sound art is not ‘‘sound art’’, it is art that utilises sound to, as Ranciere notes, play the ‘‘game of exchanges and displacements between the world
of art and the world on non-art’’.”

- The aesthetic ear: sound art, Jacques Ranciere and the politics of listening, Matthew Mullane

"Boom, there it is. Sound and signification. Sound as social text. Sound as bearer of social memory...."

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:35:00 +0300

““Boom, there it is. Sound and signification. Sound as social text. Sound as bearer of social memory. Who’s there?””

- (DJ Spooky, Dark Carnival)