Vibrant Laneways – Student Gallery
Artist Lauren Edmonds in front of their work installed at the King George Square Carpark, Brisbane Photo by Tess Morales (2015) Vibrant Laneways Student Gallery King George Square Carpark (2015) In 2015, eight works by students of graduating cohorts at the Queensland College of Arts were selected to have their work displayed on light boxes […]
News Factory: Artist’s Statement
Full text pdf: newsfactory_artiststatement_laurenedmonds_2014 News Factory Artist Statement by Lauren Edmonds This body of work investigates the deliberate distortion of information in the news media in order to manipulate the masses. In this investigation I have experimented in a variety of media and methods to create work that effectively engages the viewer in a way […]
Exegesis
Full text PDF here: I DUN GOOD, Lauren Edmonds 2015 Abstract This research sets out to develop and discover studio methods for making interactive objects that are able to critically engage participants, whilst uncovering uncomfortable conditions underlying protest and social action on social media. A multi-method research process is employed, combining practice-led and heuristic research […]
I dun good [2015]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbOAh8gOGDE I dun good (2015) tablet, app, stylus pen, recycled cardboard, self-inking stamp, string, wood 115 x 77 x 30cm I dun good (2015) is an interactive artwork that aims to uncover potentially uncomfortable conditions underlying political and social action performed online. Social media’s promising appearance to transform production relations and therefore move towards re-connecting a […]
Click [2015]
Click (2015) Interactive installation: Wood, cardboard, newspaper, remote clicker, TV, App, Mouse: 110 x 45 x 68cm In Click, a functional oversized mouse made of wood and cardboard and a hidden remote clicker sits on the floor at a distance in front of a fairly small TV screen. The screen features a watermarked stock image […]
What’s goin’ on? [2015]
What’s goin’ on? (2015) interactive object: recycled cardboard, paper, foam core, headphones, smartphone, selfie stick 132 x 80 x 45cm What’s goin’ on? directly references a well-known and reoccurring video meme nicknamed ‘He-man sings’[1]. Taking one memorable scene from the video, I reconstruct it into a physical form. At one end of the work sits a set of […]
Progressive Action [2015]
Progressive Action (2015) Interactive object: Cardboard, plastic bottle, tissue, selfie stick, wooden rod, self-inking stamp, string140 x 85 x 28cm In the work Progressive action, I use a play on expectations to create a distancing effect. The work resembles a sort of miniature catapult. A mock Molotov cocktail appears ready to be projected by […]
I made this [2015]
I made this (2015) Interactive object: recycled cardboard, smartphone, app 25 x20 x 2.5 cm The work I made this compromises of a miniature cardboard sign with a smartphone set within it. On the phone is an app. The background is a photo of the area of cardboard the phone replaces with the words ‘I’M SO […]
Political Automatons: Artist’s Statement
The chattering onslaught of almost-daily political polling has become a droll background to our everyday lives. In these works Edmonds had used the already outmoded detritus of the morning newspaper to fabricate the already outmoded detritus of yesterday’s political policy making. Like wind-up toys form a former epoch, these artefacts parody the power and control […]