Secondary research
To start of my project, I started looking into examples of extreme maximisation of actions to save time in a form of Pit Stops where the whole team acts as one for the benefit of the driver, and where is a clear break down of how the pit stop work and how they are so successful.
Trend of “Stamp on Makeup” come about around 2016 when the “I-Envy: Stamp on Eyebrows” come to and every make up enthusiast and blogger reviewed those for the sake of comedy as the stamp didn’t really work despite its promise of revolutionising the application of make-up.
Makeup advertisement that uses a timer to add sense of urgency as well as creates an impossible outcome in 10s
Online published question" How Long to Do a Full Face of Makeup?"
Technical advances of 3D printers are allowing a creation of two prosthetic hands that can be controlled by one, if this is developed further this could allow fast typing using only one hand and more.
Another development of much larger 3D printers allow a fast construction of building by "printing" it from the ground-up.
One example of multitasking would be One Man band where one person literally plays as a whole musical ensemble.
Some One-Man band musicians create a mechanical and/or electronic construction for their own performances, depending on what they would be performing. The musical instruments are usually places anywhere where the player can interact with them in some way, like knees, hands, mouth, head and foot.
Before starting this project, I was recommended to check the works of Erwin Wurm, in particular his “1 minute statues” where his work is centred around an idea of “statues” but he break it into living performance by throwing a physical body into the sculpture that is going to last only a minute which draws a similarities between mortality of the performer and the temporality of the sculpture. Moreover, despite raising such important topics of sex, body and beauty there is a hint of comedy in all of his work.
Keep a Cool Head, 2003
Refrigerator, instruction drawing, realised by the public
American/Spanish Table of Conspiracy, 2003
Table, instructions drawings, realised by the public
Pawel Althamer
Paweł Althamer,
Common Task, multiple locations, worldwide (2008 –12)
Pawet Althamer work encompasses sculpture, performance, film and most well-known public actions and orchestrated events involving communities of people. In 2000, he organized a live action event in a residential tower block in Bródno in Warsaw where he lives with his family. His work demonstrates what can be achieved by collective of people working as one towards one goal. = saving time.
When Faith Moves Mountains (2002
Francis Alÿs
"The work Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing) is typical, documenting an action performed on the streets of Mexico City in 1997 which, in spring 2009, gave a group show at Ingleby Gallery its theme. The film depicts a simple and seemingly pointless endeavour – a large block of ice being pushed through the city streets by Alÿs until it melts away to nothing – and yet in doing so it reclaims something of itself: the apparently futile gesture becomes paradoxical – it is the subject of its own film, an artwork… Nothing to something." - INGLEBY GALLERY
Moreover, through out this video the only indication of passage of time is the melting ice block that presents the journey which is the only factor that is constantly changing under the sun.
His work "When Faith Moves Mountains" present an investigation of methods of social action in particular large scale communal participation where a culmination of small action transforms into a grand scale change.
Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing) 1997
Interviews and Survey
As part of my research I have contacted several SPAs and Beauty salons across London to find out what is the average time taken for a professional/regular makeup artists to make a full face look. I overall manage to get in contact with over 29 businesses and got their average time. I was quite surprised that the time that it take ranges vastly between 30 and 60 minutes. This gives me a rough time (45.4 minutes) that I had to beat in my future experiments.
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Interview with Jake Radriguse, a One Man Band performer, revealed an interesting perspective on the true capabilities of the One Man Band performers as he describes that "for me it's more about interacting with people then performing" as well as "there is something comic about it ... oh something...man can never quite robotises and do all those different jobs..." those comments show the attraction to the One Man Band is mostly for the character and theatrical performance that they put up in order to appease the audience and create a connection.