Thesis Journal2–Shaun Zhou
（Shirin Neshat， Offerings）
This week I’ve been thinking about how to make calligraphy a more exaggerated expression of the traditional art form，And think about which contemporary art forms that calligraphy can collide with to produce unexpected results.
Shirin Neshat’s work reminds me of tattoos，What I think is that we don’t need to actually write or tattoo on the skin, but use projection to project the calligraphy on the body or the skin to achieve an effect.Next I will continue to think about how to give them a deeper meaning.
Reference artist
Liuchang—Liu Chang is an artist and educator, currently based in Shanghai. Chang’s work explores the connection between nature and the artificial world by juxtaposing them. Her digital artwork always discusses the existence of time. Chang’s art practice involves interactive installation, computational portraiture, novelty material in screen-printing, artist books, etc. Her recent research, from an interdisciplinary perspective, focuses on generative art, museum technology, and the intersection of creative coding and graphic design.
Shirin Neshat—Shirin Neshat is a contemporary Iranian visual artist best known for her work in photography, video, and film (such as her 1999 film Rapture),which explore the relationship between women and the religious and cultural value systems of Islam. She has said that she hopes the viewers of her work “take away with them not some heavy political statement, but something that really touches them on the most emotional level.”
James Turrell—James Turrel (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. Much of Turrell’s career has been devoted to a still-unfinished work, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory; and for his series of skyspaces, enclosed spaces that frame the sky
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Can you speak more about the calligraphy? What do you want to say about the artform? How will exaggerating the traditional form assist you in what you want to say? You mention a deeper meaning – but don’t force something! Instead, go back and really think about why you want to pursue this concept
Because I did a lot of research on calligraphy in the previous CE class, this time I don’t want to talk about calligraphy itself. My new idea is to use calligraphy as a carrier to reflect some real problems in the current society, such as cyber violence , then calligraphy would be an art form to express this theme.
There are lots of aspects of Calligraphy, ie: an style of aesthetic, a value proposition of ancient Chinese intellectuals, and etc. Is there one of them that you explore make you excited and want to talk to people?
Is Calligraphy a tool or media for people to understand you opinion beyond Calligraphy? What it is?
You could check this artist, who creates art work by huge calligraphy brush. He mention he learn some philosophy of Zen, and the movement of body which could represent the statement of KOAN(棒喝）
http://www.atmanone.com/
Other project related to ancient Chinese.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/classical-chinese
Thank you Yiru, these informations are very helpful to me, but I also hope that calligraphy can give you a meaning other than art. I want it to be a carrier to reflect some real problems at the moment