1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?
From my understanding the word "claymation" is a term creating animation. Clay figures moulded into characters which then get moved and filmed into different positions for stop-motion frames. Claymation is generally used in kid shows and movies. Popular movies Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run are a great example of this.
2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?
The "Surrealistic Garden of Eden is a popular art and the term came from the 20th century. Its used to describe a artists creativity when they have displayed something that is twisted making the work look abnormal but not obvious. In Djurbergs work she showed the complete opposite shocking her audience going totally against the perception of what the Garden of Eden is meant to purpose. But in terms of "all that is natural goes awry" meaning when an artist gives a piece of work its give out a different perceptive/feeling of how an actually object looks in real life. For example how Djurbury used clay to create objects or human figures but managed to twist them to look different but still know exactly what she's proposing to the audience.
3. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?
Viewing Djurbergs work you feel a range of emotion from disbelief to outrage. I notice this through her use of characters and unrealistic scenarios when viewing her claymation works from observing her work they generally start off natural nude people and animals soon developing into unexpected sexuality,blood and death.
4. How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work?
She has taken popular stories that we all knew when we were younger and have known all our life's and put a twist into them by instead of playing innocence she has portrayed how children are not all nice and can be completely opposite nasty just like everyone else. She mixed these stories up example instead of having a prince charming with a happy ending she would go in the other direction and twist it to cinderella runs leaving the prince off sort of thing.
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?
In our years of today, art and design has changed a lot since it was first produced. CHange today though do play a major role and what would our world be without it. For example artist these day would find a painting on canvas beautiful but boring but contrasting to today there are so many ways of produce art and this is grabbings people attention to be more interested in trying something different and to use there imagination and bring there ideas to being realistic. Personally i think designers do this to play with your mind like a mindset.
6. In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?
In my opinion i find Djurbergs work really interesting. That she can do something that looks so easy but after staring at her work for a while you see how much more complex it is. You can see how much effort and mind setting she actually puts in toward her work. Her work can be some what disturbing through her human characters, and if you actually look at her work theres not much that isn't disturbing, its like innocents doesn't exist in her mind. To me i think thats why she was chosen for the Venice Biennale, because of the composition in how different her work is compared to a lot of artist. By this i feel people are attracted to her design for the reason of her contrast.
7. Add some of your own personal comments on her work.
'Experiment' (2009) Venice Biennale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_animation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_Djurberg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/aug/25/artist-nathalie-djurberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden
http://www.fantasyarts.net/fahistory.html
I find your answer for question three very interesting. I agree with how Djurberg uses such a wide range of emotions that develop from innocence into more disturbing, negative emotions. Another thing I found interesting is how you described the way she plays with children's stories by twisting them up and not necesarily giving them a happy ending. In my answer for question two, I didn't come across all the points you brought up. I like your explaination of what the term "surrealistic garden of eden means," in that you haven't only got a dictionary definition, but also another interpretation of the term.
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