stones' scribbles & letters :_0

HOI NINJA!

 

I have been nominated for the Oxford Arts Supplies Drawing Prize. :_) hooray.

I will find out if i win the $1500 on the 27th of Nov. YIKES!

PORTRAIT: SOME DRUGGO OUTSIDE BLACKTOWN STATION.

 

Portrait: Some Druggo Outside Blacktown Station is a drawing-installation, consisting of a large-scale charcoal drawing, video and photographic projections, audio, as well as live and recorded performances. The work is constructed from within the generic framework of portraiture, namely the performative and ritualistic operations that underpin the portrait-making process. Here, portraiture no longer functions as a singular indexical icon, but becomes a signification of the very acts of portrayal that produced it. Each part of the installation has been drawn from multiple levels of: visual, spatio-temporal, corporeal, and mnemonic ‘exchanges’, all of which transpired throughout the portrait-making process. These exchanges are characterized by four-way diachronic transactions, which take place between the artist, the portrait subject, the artwork and the viewers.

 

The conceptual underpinning of Portrait: Some Druggo Outside Blacktown Station, stemmed out of a preoccupation with those material processes, normally—and physically—omitted from traditional presentations of figurative portraiture, such as: the lived intimacy between artist and sitter; the re-transmission of the source image onto pictorial ground; and the critical and aesthetic transactions that is made between the mounted work, and its viewers.

 

Ultimately this portrait-construction develops into a site of interconnecting narratives, where traces of coalescing histories accumulate into a constellation—an assemblage—of significatory objects, all of which gestures towards the preliminary transaction between artist and sitter. That same transaction, is then extrapolated into an array of mediatory angles, intensities, textures and tonalities (representational, performative, photographic, digital, & spatio-temporal), all of which operate in fugue, multiplying the constructed presence of the absent sitter.

 Artist Statement

My art making practice is driven by an ongoing fascination with people: their voices, their breathe, their accents, their narratives; their capacity to seize sympathy, even from spectators unbeknownst to them. I envision my works as gesturing towards an interrogation of human presence, that invisible—yet palpable—aura that we all impart. Merleau Ponty describes it as the “ghostly presence” of the human body. The way that (corpo)real residues of the body continues to linger and ‘haunt’ the space even after it has physically, visually or aurally departed. Part of my mediatory function as an artist—working within the tradition of portraiture—is in capturing, (re)presenting and (re)constructing that very (corpo)real presence throughout the material, spatial, and performative composition of my artworks. A presence that tethers between the borders of ‘authenticity’ and (art)ifice.

   

_Kristone Capistrano

 

 

KRISTONE CAPISTRANO

Born 1986, Olongapo, Philippines. Living in Sydney.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2008

COFA Annual Graduation Exhibition, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.

Twighlight, PACT Theatre, Erskineville, 

UNSW Artsweek Exhibition, Roundhouse, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Performance Making, Io Myers Studio, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

2007

Smash Hits, Parramatta Artists Studio Gallery, Parramatta.

Self-Portrait, Somedays Gallery, Surry Hills.

Extra Cheese, Gallery 44, DarlingHurst.

Youth Art Showcase, Arts Pavilion, Royal Easter Show, Sydney.

2006

COFA Spring Fair Showcase Exhibition, COFA Space, University of New South Wales.

Reframe, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.

2005

Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Prize, Lane Cove Council Chambers.

Blacktown City Arts Prize, Blacktown Arts Centre.

 

Solo Exhibition

Cute But Ugly, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, 2007.