Here are some videos I found interesting, I like their style!
Mafish Durell / Nicolas BARRIÉ
Omar Khâyyam, cinq variations / DJIAN
Reconstitution / Hélène ABRAM
Building / A. DE CLERQ & J. COOL
Enfantillages / Nicolas BELLONI
Popcorn Liisa LOUNILA
story of lovers on a train_Gad HOLLANDER
BERLIN_die Symphonie der GroBstadt
l'invention de la route - Ricard COLAS
Des gouttes de jalousie / P. VILLEMIN
Monday, December 15, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
For Seminar 10th December[[[ Finding our voices ]]]
Because we have just finished our public space projects and we have shown all our work, I felt a bit stuck as to what I was going to discuss for todays seminar.
However, I'm going to focus on the idea of the new project, finding out where our interests lie. What we are each trying to do is to accumulate the ideas and concepts and theoretical practices that interest us. In the light of all this, I thought the best thing to do was to literally, have a look on the web and see if anything
interests me and to figure out why it does so. It is definitely important to understand why it is we like a work, as in turn it will help us shape our own understanding of what it is we are interested in.
One of the works I found particularly interesting was a piece called Ordinary Show By Vanessa Louzon. Here is an exerpt explaining the work:
Ordinary Show is an ongoing internet-based project that started in 2008 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
A single white page is filled with a long series of extremely short looped video clips, like a deconstructed film stretched over space and fragmented into scenes put one next to the other and played at the same time.
The artist uses the page as her diary. She obsessively records everything around her: the mundane, the small, the insignificant, the repetitive, the beautiful, the ugly, the flashy, the mechanical, as not to miss anything, as if everything was to suddenly stop. A strip-show neon light flashing, a supermarket close circuit TV, a lady bathing in the sea, are thus frozen in time as they loop indefinitely and hypnotically on the screen. As they accumulate on the page day after day, they form an evolving record of each one of the artist's footsteps in the places, seasons, and states of mind she finds herself in. It is a kinetic diary, a visual record of everyday life. Vanessa's interests lie in exploring the persistent repetitions of life, and finding out what emotions the looped clips will trigger as they accumulate day after day.
http://www.ordinaryshow.com/
You may find that on her website there are other interesting projects which she has undergone, I reccommend checking out:
'Interference' there is actual video footage of this work. It is a 4 screen installation showing 4 looped animations of tv patterns (hand-drawn animated test patterns and interferences, with voice-imitated tv sound).
From Poland with Love
Drawings of found passport photographs of young people in 60s Communist Poland, to be made into a mural.
Stereotypes
Mural showing 4 comic strips made out of photos and text found in several stereotypical magazines: teenage girls, housewives, trendy people, businessmen.
All found on her website here >>>> http://www.vanessalouzon.com/
The ordinary show piece is my favourite however, I really like the idea of exploring the ordinary things of the everyday, making the ephemeral permanent somehow in space and time. It is this notion which I would probably like to pursue in my own work. Video and photography would be the main medium I would be using throughout my work. It also gives me a starting point in researching narrative, and time and space in narrative. I remember recently watching Tarkovsky 'Mirror' and being fascinated by his use of narrative, how there seems to be no apparent plot, but yet the story is displayed from all aspects of his life, like we are seeing the story through many "mirrors" at the same time.
Excerpt from Wiki
The Mirror has no apparent plot. Instead it rhythmically combines contemporary scenes with childhood memories and newsreel footage. At various points in the film poems by Tarkovsky's father are recited. The loose flow of visually oneiric images has been compared to the stream of consciousness technique in literature.
Youtube 8 minute video:
I don't know too much about the subject of narrative to give a big 20 minute seminar on it. I guess what I am trying to do is to briefly touch on some of the concepts that I find interesting, so that as I do research them, I will gain some sort of shape to my own artistic 'voice'. For this seminar I wanted to show some pieces which I like, hoping to engage in discussion about the work. I am currently looking into the idea of narrative, and am interested after Christmas in making short video pieces based on the different types of narrative perhaps. I'm still not quite sure, but here is some excerpts I've read regarding the topic.
Debates about how to tell a story go back, no doubt, to the time when some mythical humans sat around some mythical fire in some mythical cave. [1] Most of us today grew up under the premises so aptly described by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. There the King of Hearts advises, "Begin at the beginning ... and go on till you come to the end; then stop." [2] The King of Hearts implies that stories work in a single linear sequence. In contrast, many representations of stories in classical art juxtapose episodes that did not occur next to each other. While we can follow the classical stories, their parts often seem to be oddly ordered.
Source>>
Time in Space, Narrative in Classical Art
Psychological narrative
Within philosophy of mind, the social sciences and various clinical fields including medicine, narrative can refer to aspects of human psychology.[3] A personal narrative process is involved in a person's sense of personal or cultural identity, and in the creation and construction of memories, and is thought by some to be the fundamental nature of the self.[4][5] The breakdown of a coherent or positive narrative has been implicated in the development of psychosis and mental disorder, and its repair said to play an important role in journeys of recovery.[6] Narrative Therapy is a school of (family) psychotherapy.
Source <<
Here are some interesting quotes regarding Narrative:
All great storytellers have in common the freedom with which they move up and down the rungs of their experience as on a ladder.
A ladder extending downwards the interior of the earth and disappearing in the clouds is the image for collective experience ...
Walter Benjamin
Let It Bleed (Left) Let It Be (Right), The Stones And The Beatles Getting Tweaked At The Same Time (2008) - Yoshi Sodeoka
Let It Bleed (Left) Let It Be (Right), The Stones And The Beatles Getting Tweaked At The Same Time, 2008 from yoshi sodeoka on Vimeo.
So I guess here are some examples of work that I'm interested in, hopefully now tomorrow it will provide some sort of platform of discussion regarding the topic of 'finding our artistic voices'.
However, I'm going to focus on the idea of the new project, finding out where our interests lie. What we are each trying to do is to accumulate the ideas and concepts and theoretical practices that interest us. In the light of all this, I thought the best thing to do was to literally, have a look on the web and see if anything
interests me and to figure out why it does so. It is definitely important to understand why it is we like a work, as in turn it will help us shape our own understanding of what it is we are interested in.
One of the works I found particularly interesting was a piece called Ordinary Show By Vanessa Louzon. Here is an exerpt explaining the work:
Ordinary Show is an ongoing internet-based project that started in 2008 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
A single white page is filled with a long series of extremely short looped video clips, like a deconstructed film stretched over space and fragmented into scenes put one next to the other and played at the same time.
The artist uses the page as her diary. She obsessively records everything around her: the mundane, the small, the insignificant, the repetitive, the beautiful, the ugly, the flashy, the mechanical, as not to miss anything, as if everything was to suddenly stop. A strip-show neon light flashing, a supermarket close circuit TV, a lady bathing in the sea, are thus frozen in time as they loop indefinitely and hypnotically on the screen. As they accumulate on the page day after day, they form an evolving record of each one of the artist's footsteps in the places, seasons, and states of mind she finds herself in. It is a kinetic diary, a visual record of everyday life. Vanessa's interests lie in exploring the persistent repetitions of life, and finding out what emotions the looped clips will trigger as they accumulate day after day.
http://www.ordinaryshow.com/
You may find that on her website there are other interesting projects which she has undergone, I reccommend checking out:
'Interference' there is actual video footage of this work. It is a 4 screen installation showing 4 looped animations of tv patterns (hand-drawn animated test patterns and interferences, with voice-imitated tv sound).
From Poland with Love
Drawings of found passport photographs of young people in 60s Communist Poland, to be made into a mural.
Stereotypes
Mural showing 4 comic strips made out of photos and text found in several stereotypical magazines: teenage girls, housewives, trendy people, businessmen.
All found on her website here >>>> http://www.vanessalouzon.com/
The ordinary show piece is my favourite however, I really like the idea of exploring the ordinary things of the everyday, making the ephemeral permanent somehow in space and time. It is this notion which I would probably like to pursue in my own work. Video and photography would be the main medium I would be using throughout my work. It also gives me a starting point in researching narrative, and time and space in narrative. I remember recently watching Tarkovsky 'Mirror' and being fascinated by his use of narrative, how there seems to be no apparent plot, but yet the story is displayed from all aspects of his life, like we are seeing the story through many "mirrors" at the same time.
Excerpt from Wiki
The Mirror has no apparent plot. Instead it rhythmically combines contemporary scenes with childhood memories and newsreel footage. At various points in the film poems by Tarkovsky's father are recited. The loose flow of visually oneiric images has been compared to the stream of consciousness technique in literature.
Youtube 8 minute video:
I don't know too much about the subject of narrative to give a big 20 minute seminar on it. I guess what I am trying to do is to briefly touch on some of the concepts that I find interesting, so that as I do research them, I will gain some sort of shape to my own artistic 'voice'. For this seminar I wanted to show some pieces which I like, hoping to engage in discussion about the work. I am currently looking into the idea of narrative, and am interested after Christmas in making short video pieces based on the different types of narrative perhaps. I'm still not quite sure, but here is some excerpts I've read regarding the topic.
Debates about how to tell a story go back, no doubt, to the time when some mythical humans sat around some mythical fire in some mythical cave. [1] Most of us today grew up under the premises so aptly described by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. There the King of Hearts advises, "Begin at the beginning ... and go on till you come to the end; then stop." [2] The King of Hearts implies that stories work in a single linear sequence. In contrast, many representations of stories in classical art juxtapose episodes that did not occur next to each other. While we can follow the classical stories, their parts often seem to be oddly ordered.
Source>>
Time in Space, Narrative in Classical Art
Psychological narrative
Within philosophy of mind, the social sciences and various clinical fields including medicine, narrative can refer to aspects of human psychology.[3] A personal narrative process is involved in a person's sense of personal or cultural identity, and in the creation and construction of memories, and is thought by some to be the fundamental nature of the self.[4][5] The breakdown of a coherent or positive narrative has been implicated in the development of psychosis and mental disorder, and its repair said to play an important role in journeys of recovery.[6] Narrative Therapy is a school of (family) psychotherapy.
Source <<
Here are some interesting quotes regarding Narrative:
All great storytellers have in common the freedom with which they move up and down the rungs of their experience as on a ladder.
A ladder extending downwards the interior of the earth and disappearing in the clouds is the image for collective experience ...
Walter Benjamin
Let It Bleed (Left) Let It Be (Right), The Stones And The Beatles Getting Tweaked At The Same Time (2008) - Yoshi Sodeoka
Let It Bleed (Left) Let It Be (Right), The Stones And The Beatles Getting Tweaked At The Same Time, 2008 from yoshi sodeoka on Vimeo.
So I guess here are some examples of work that I'm interested in, hopefully now tomorrow it will provide some sort of platform of discussion regarding the topic of 'finding our artistic voices'.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Questionnaire Revisioned!
Well last Friday I went around town and I approached a couple of different people about my questionaires and I was talkin to them for a while. I began to think that the questions that I proposed where not exactly getting across what it is I want to say....or ....they just don't seem to be going in the right direction, it's like the answers I was getting are leading me onto another path as such. I definitely think I need o be recording these conversations I have with the people tho. It's just not the same writing their answers down, it also seems like the conversations I'm striking up with people is a big part of the work, and I really like being able to approach people and talk about certain issues, everyone has been really receptive to it so far. I think however I need to revise a few of the questions, go out and ask more people, look at the feedback, and decide where to go from there!!
I feel like I can never fully grasp the concept of what it is I want to do, it's like, I'm not sure what it is that I'm doing. I have this initial idea and then it doesn't work out at all the way I had planned or envisaged, and it makes me think if my ideas were solid enough in the first place. Maybe I'm not dealing with the concept in the best way I could? How am I approaching it? How DO I approach it?? Like my initial idea and what I wanted to do is turning out to be completely different, however, I shall have to think about it alot more, as well as do more of the practical stuff!!
I feel like I can never fully grasp the concept of what it is I want to do, it's like, I'm not sure what it is that I'm doing. I have this initial idea and then it doesn't work out at all the way I had planned or envisaged, and it makes me think if my ideas were solid enough in the first place. Maybe I'm not dealing with the concept in the best way I could? How am I approaching it? How DO I approach it?? Like my initial idea and what I wanted to do is turning out to be completely different, however, I shall have to think about it alot more, as well as do more of the practical stuff!!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Plan of Action
Type up questions for questionaire.
Post thread up on a forum (for any experiences dealing with loneliness)
Go to a Dublin meet up.
Take photographs
Derive
I want to collect as much information as possible, I have done alot of thinking for this project and I just need to get out there and start collecting info now.
Some other ideas which could connect in with the idea of loneliness is the idea of emmigration and exclusion, which is a big issue these days in the public. So I am going to go to a 'New to Dublin' meet up to talk to people who are new here and about their experiences of what it is like to be new in a place and have they come across any form of social exclusion etc etc!!
Questions for my Questionaire
Are you on your own today?
Why is it that you're on your own?
What kind of thoughts go through your mind when you're on your own/alone in public space?
What does loneliness mean to you?
What does aloneness mean to you?
Do you think there are alot of lonely people out there?
Have you had any experiences regarding loneliness?
What do you consider a public space to be? What are it's functons in relation to social interaction?
I also want to ask them more personal questions like what they do for a living, do they go to college, how did they find that experience? etc
I think you can learn alot more about the loneliness in people by asking about their own situation rather then generic questions about loneliness.
For the people I am meeting in the New to Dublin group I want to ask them questions such as:
How are they coping with emerging into Dublin society?
Have they got jobs? was it easy/hard?
Have they come accross any kind/form of exclusion?
What interests do they have?
Do they think that Dublin is a friendly place?
How did they find their first few weeks here?
Are they more likely to become lonely?
Is there a major culture shock?
What's so different about the people here to where they come from?
Development of Project Ideas
I really want to focus on the idea of alone-ness or loneliness in public space. I want to take pictures (carefully compositioned) of people who are on their own in public space. I think that in general alot of people associate public space as a place where there is a multitude of social activities, where one is always going somewhere or doing something, it is seen as a place where people gather and meet and come together, socialise. I guess I just want to highlight the people that are on their own, that there are people who don't use public space as a place to meet, but as a place to either be alone, or because they simply do not have anyone to meet with.
I want my work to become relational aswell as just photography. I want to approach these people who are on their own and ask them a set of questions (perhaps do a survey!?) about alone-ness and loneli-ness in public space, and what that means. I want to investigate the quieter, more over-looked part of public space, creating interaction and conversation with those who are alone in public space.
With the images and texts that I aquire I want to project these onto the facade of a building. This I would say is the tricky part at the moment I think. I need to think of the context I want these photos and text to be in, what is the question or critique I am making of that space? What is it that I am trying to say EXACTLY?
So what I really need to be thinking about is the questions for the survey, what information do I need? Once I know I will be able to craft my questions accordingly to get the inforation I want.
I also need to be thinking about the contexts and where I can display the works, on what buildings and why?
(QUESTIONS AND CONTEXT)
I want my work to become relational aswell as just photography. I want to approach these people who are on their own and ask them a set of questions (perhaps do a survey!?) about alone-ness and loneli-ness in public space, and what that means. I want to investigate the quieter, more over-looked part of public space, creating interaction and conversation with those who are alone in public space.
With the images and texts that I aquire I want to project these onto the facade of a building. This I would say is the tricky part at the moment I think. I need to think of the context I want these photos and text to be in, what is the question or critique I am making of that space? What is it that I am trying to say EXACTLY?
So what I really need to be thinking about is the questions for the survey, what information do I need? Once I know I will be able to craft my questions accordingly to get the inforation I want.
I also need to be thinking about the contexts and where I can display the works, on what buildings and why?
(QUESTIONS AND CONTEXT)
Mirror -Tarkovsky
We watched Mirror by Tarovsky in our Visual Culture lecture yesterday. Needless to say I think about 99% of us were completely bewildered and didn't even know where to start to try and de-code it. However one cannot deny the fact that it is an absolutely brilliantly filmed movie. I really want to watch it a good few times and do alot of reading about it. I think the jist of the story (not that it has a definite linear storyline to it) but I think it is about this notion of space and time and it is disjointed, and we are looking at a period of time from many different sides of a diamond, as one would say, the main characters in the movie vary from different ages all the time, like the film is showing various parts of their lives, but it is not in proper succession, this is where the notion of space and time comes in. This is something I will have to research more about, anyway, the film is amazing. Reading about it must be done (and I'd say research before watching the film for the first time would be a bit more necessary to understand it a bit better, espesh for the first time...).
Notes on a Scandal
One Woman's Mistake Is Another's Opportunity...
Loneliness can turn one into a monster.
One woman's secret is another woman's power. One woman's fear is another woman's weapon. One woman's life is in another woman's hands....
Now that I think about it, this actually relates to my project. I'm basing my project on alone-ness and lonelyness in public space. but I am really interested in the psychological effects that lonelyness can play on our minds, our mental states. So this is a great example of lonelyness which has gotten to the stage of complete emotional and psychotic breakdown.
Notes on a Scandal is a 2006 British film adapted from the 2003 novel of the same name by Zoe Heller. The screenplay was written by Patrick Marber and the film was directed by Richard Eyre.
Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) teaches history at a comprehensive school in London. A lonely old spinster, Barbara's only "intimate relationship" is with herself by means of a diary. When a new, younger teacher Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) starts at the school she feels drawn to her and believes that she "may be the one". Barbara discovers that Sheba is having an affair with a student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson), and confronts her. When Sheba asks her to not tell the school administration until Christmas so she can be with her family, Barbara explains she has no intention of telling, as long as she ends the relationship. However, she doesn't and Barbara warns her once more. But when Barbara's cat dies and Sheba can not be there to comfort her, Barbara seeks revenge by telling a fellow teacher who comes to her asking her if Sheba is interested in him. The fellow teacher spreads the "playground rumour" to Steven's mother. Ms. Connolly then comes to Sheba's home and hits Sheba. The next day the media, as well as the school administration, are alarmed and Sheba's life is turned upside down. She ends up moving into Barbara's house, with the idea that Steven broke down to his mother, but soon finds Barbara's diary and learns of the rather sexual attraction Barbara may have with her. (Earlier, when the school's headmaster asks Barbara if she knew of the relationship, he confronts her on receiving a restraining order with another fellow teacher whom she previously befriended).
Sheba is sentenced to 10 months, and the last scene is Barbara meeting another younger woman whom she seems to befriend.
Wiki entry
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