theatrical electronic

daily melody: Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Soft Shock"

Theatrical Electronic
Caroline A. Locatelli
2009-2010
Mixed media installation
NFS

Theatrical Electronic is an installation solely based around discarded, donated, and found objects revealing a charming anecdote between technology and nature represented through six television sets and the head of deer.

As I mature and expand as an artist I reach out more to the treasures of discarded and found items to incorporate in my works. I choose everyday objects that an average person has the ability to relate to, recognize, and often use themselves.

Using the selected objects for their forms and connotations I enjoy breathing life into the lifeless creations, for example televisions, that are around us.

The television sets are each blanketed in individual, yet unifying bold colors- stripping each of them of their model information, brand identification, and visible signs of consumerism.

In this work, I have created three classifications: nature, man, and the inanimate objects man creates. The deer mount suspended above the televisions represents nature in bright robust gold to signify a higher caste, royalty, and purity; as well as the branches that sprout from the televisions and the artificial grass beneath them.
Both television and deer speak quietly to one another captured in a cathartic moment. The television sets struggle to alter their burdensome bodies and transcend into a higher level despite their inevitable destiny. As each television strives to be ever closer to nature only dead branches sprout from their tops.

The deer shows its sorrow and silently weeps out of respect for

the creations man has constructed. . .

loved in a fickle respect. . . . .

and finally discarded. . . . . .

The opening went fantastic!
I couldn't be happier and more proud with my installation.

....sleep deprived, sick, and oh-so exhausted from all the other work and things to do left....

*** Thank you sooo much, Shanna for shooting all these lovely photographs for me!

4 days....getting closer

daily melody: Thom Yorke "The Clock"

Now that I am finally ready to post some photographs I took of my installation [senior exhibition] in progress off of my lovely friend Sarah's digital camera, the piece has since progressed after a late-night work session last night.

I will be installing all-day Friday and the opening is this coming Saturday from 2-4pm in Cazenovia, NY. I just need to get through this, and finish my senior thesis paper [on televisions as a contemporary art form]. On a good note my postcards and business cards seemed to have finally shipped!! I have been worrying constantly on their arrival and if they would be getting to me in time of my show. These worries began when the estimated shipping date stated April 26th...4 days after my show.

here's to a week of little sleep and lots of creation!

Mediums: spray paint, acrylic paint, hot glue, found objects [television sets, deer mount-found of craigslist, Christmas light net]

It may seem a little perplexing to wonder why I am spray painting discarded television sets off the side of the road, and through generous donations...or why I have a taxidermy deer head also painted and dripping.

Through the transformation of my illustrative style and artisitic abilities I have found a common theme among my work that was not as strongly apparent to me before as it is now looking at my work from a retrospect. I enjoy personifying animate objects, man's little creations....giving a voice to an object that was built with none. In this case I am allowing the communication between the telelvisions and the deer to be presented, the relationship between technology [a creation of man] and nature.

The televisions yearn and struggle with all their being to become a part of nature, after being discarded-cast aside by the fickle nature of man. Nature, which will be represented all in gold will represent a true purity- the highest caste in the pyramid; above man which is above technology.

This has been the most inspiring and in-depth work thus far in my life...and I couldn't think of a better way to live my life.

More photographs and insite into the piece to come!

one week to go....

daily melody: Moby "I love to move in here [Proxy remix]"

Less than one week. Panic isn't satiable yet...fear has slipped into my bones and my mind to gnaw on the utter primal and innate characteristics and needs. Doing what makes me feel good....for the moment. Completely knocking my veg loyalty to greasy corporate packaging at a $1.08 [including lovely New York tax].

Last night more events caught me more off guard than I needed when I let them steep in my brain like chili which just meant more dwelling on the negative and all that still need to be accomplished. [Excluding shipping my laptop off for repair before the end of warranty and the anticipation of my postcards and business cards....eeek!]

...tired of being threatened by the spray painting I am doing in the space I have in the corner of a basement studio....

want a good show...and more peace.

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...on a good note I now own a Munny! [a Trikky to be exact....] and I am very excited about the myriad of possibilities of adorning the charming minimalist toy.

source

Thank you, Nicholas, for this inspirational little guy.

***note: I have a deep adoration for techno music which will become increasingly more evident as this blog grows.

less than 2 weeks...

daily melody: Passion Pit "The Reeling"

There is exactly t-minus 12 days until the opening of my senior thesis exhibition with three other of my classmates in the gallery here at college. Very overwhelming.....very toooo much.

Last night I officially ordered: more postcards for my show, business cards that I made myself, and two of my selected illustrations professionally made into postcards to sell at my show.

I hope they will be good sellers, and I hope that this is all worth it in the end.
My business card [hand collaged-the way I like it!]

the two illustrations I chose to be made into sellable art:I hope my postcards sell.

If this endeavor is successful as I hope it will be, it will be a refreshing relaization and comfort that I can be an artist in this world first, and not put it on the back burner behind another occupation.