Dada String Experiment Experience

15/09/16 -

In our practical session, we were studying about the use of positive space and negative space.
Positive space is the space used in enclosed space, but negative space is the space around the object, to explore this experience, we used string to create positive and negative space

Evaluation:

Pic 1 - "String Angel"
I've taken the inspiration from my thought and personal experience from our classes' experiment with string, by placing string to objects, walls, floor, (And maybe the ceiling? I'm not certainly sure...). But the experience in my personal opinion, was that there was not much space around the room to move around in or lack of negative space and it makes it pretty difficult to move around and feels pretty "enclosed" or "trapped" in a limited space.
Most of the strings are linked from the shoulders, wrists, waist, thighs, knees, and ankles, this body parts are most of the functioning parts of the body, like the ball, (Wrists, Ankles, Shoulders, etc...) the hinge, (Elbows, finger joints, knees, etc..), this is linked to my experience with the movement around the room, not being able to move freely without chasing any of the strings (and maybr trippping over in the proccess!)
Most of the string was either a little loose to draping downwards, making the experience a tad hard to walk through with the string being too low down or the string being too tight or high to get past. I've first recorded my experience by phone in my own POV (Point Of View), showing the difficulty of my route taken by me through the string lines, sometimes getting either struck or not knowing if there's a string line nearby, usually being too close to me.
Then I've created a few sketches of the experience, one of them, "String Angel" is the one that I've explained about the strings around parts of the body. The string is wraped and attatched to the mentioned parts of the body, then the strings looks like they are attatched to a wall (or the ceiling?), lifting the the other end of the string higher to resemble an Angel-like look with the string.


Pic 2- Cat's Craddled One of the techniques I've tried out in the string experiment was a technique called the "Cat's Craddle" and I've wanted to try it out by making different forms and shapes with this technique. Again, strings are also on the body too, since the experience of me trying to escape the cluster of strings around where I was working at also made my route of safety a little challenaging and a bit wobbly, seeing that the figure is a unbalencing position, which makes the figure in the picture look wobbly on it's feet, expressing that the figure is in a difficult and tight position, just like when I was with I was in the string experiment.