1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?
Claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation.A service mark used for an animation process in which clay figurines are manipulated and filmed to produce an image of lifelike movement . Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay(wikipedia,n.d.).
2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?
Nathalie Djurberg, The Experiment, 20093. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?
Nathalie Djurberg"Das unheimliche" the "un-homely"; a term used by Freud can be seen in relation to Djurberg's films, which have an existential feeling of suspense and uneasiness. A world is about to fall apart and even though it's made of clay it strongly relates to themes of human reality. The stories deal with topics such as war, violence, sexuality, sadism and assault in an investigation of the darker side of the human soul(artnews.org,n.d.).Their main characters,"are girls or young women engaged in various kinds of vileness: from mild deception, friendly torture and oddly benign bestiality to murder and mayhem."(Roberta,2006)
4. How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work?
Djurberg's stories have a lot in common with traditional folktales. They involve traditional roles as the good, the bad and the kind helper. The films also have animals as roles, e.g. the wolf, the bear and the tiger. As in tales strange and magical things happen in Djurberg's films; animals speak, trees walk and humans fly and talk with animals. Like in traditional tales the films have shocking and gruesome elements which occur after the narrative turning-point in the story. After this turn of events the films no longer look like children's TV but rather as a scary x-rated fantasy without any moral. describing as “fairy tales gone mad…”—forces of good and evil, dark and light, beauty and horror intertwine. Her narratives provide no reassuring fairy-tale conclusions(FRYE art museum,2009).
5. There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?
I believe that the deal to give the audience the strong mindsets, sharp contrast to let the audience to remember what the content of the works.
6. In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?
I think her works to give us a lot of mind enlightenment.Stories reflect the dark side of the world ,they about the human condition mixed both with black humour and seriousness.She used the technique of irony and humor to show. She makes candy-coloured plasticine puppets who have orgies, who torture each other and suffer alien, abusive relationships.These are disturbing. The music by Hans Berg in the films is dominating and with its almost psychopathic cheerful rhythm it hints to the fact that there's something wrong and something is about to fall apart. The mood becomes frantic. therefrom,Her works attract people .
7. Add some of your own personal comments on her work.
I like her artworks.Their expressions are so vivid and lively.The technique of Humor and irony brings interesting and enlightenment of spirit.These video express much of the talk is violence, sex, abuse, cruel, death or brutality.Making our rules of morality upset.she never tell us where is right and wrong,but puting us in a roller coaster-we can do is try to understand our landmarks.
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You have made a good statement when you say that the artist wants to be remembered. Djurberg does this by making her works shocking and disturbing. Her works demand attention so she pushes the boundaries and and creates a piece of work that is frightening and unusual. As human beings we remember the things that shock us the most and the things that are weird and out of the ordinary. Because of this the artist is acknowledged more and becomes more well known.
回复删除I enjoy this artist's work as it is different to other works that you would find in a gallery. The idea of claymation is also interesting as I have never tried it myself before. But personally I don't think I would be patient enough to create a stop motion animation.
I strongly agree with you that she has made the strong contrast of her experiment that she wants the audience to remember the contents of her art work.She used claymation to express the spirit of human in an irony way.I believe that the stories of her work deal with topics such as war, violence, sexuality.
回复删除It is very interesting to see how she display her art by using claymation,which takes lots of effort to do it.Also like what you have mentioned before that her work shown the other side of the world.Everything has turned awry.Sometimes we don't even know what is right and what is wrong.
I agree that her work consists of Black Humour and strange abusive relationships. In an artists opinion this is very interesting due to the fact that we like to express strange and sometimes wonderful and sometimes not so wonderful emotions. In a publics opinion her works are exciting, greusome, illicit and horrifying but yet they seem to hold our attention due to our curiousity.
回复删除I like Djurberg's works and i like the way you described Djurberg's works, and i agree that their expressions are so vivid and lively.The technique of Humor and irony brings interesting and enlightenment of spirit.These videos express much of the talk of violence, sex, abuse, cruel, death or brutality.Making our rules of morality upset. I’m interested in Djurberg since i saw her works. Her work takes me to a fantastic dreams, vivid characters and dramatic scene. Djurberg’s works show us graphically violent and erotic. If this reminds you of some cute TV programme you followed as a kid then let me crush any nostalgia you might have. Djurberg clearly didn't see the same children animations as you and i. She used claymations to tell stories which full of exaggerate violent and erotica.
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