Summer 2014: BioShock

After discussing a themed photoshoot with a few friends I have decided to put some of my mod roc to good use to create a Splicer mask from BioShock. The plan is it give the design my own flair but to take inspiration from the game and other fan-made designs.

 

 

The base of my mask:

Spare Time: Photography Workshop: Week 4

Today we made contact sheets and enlarged some of the negatives.

Spare Time: Photography Workshop: Weeks 2 and 3

These sessions were dedicated to learning to use a 36mm camera and the dark room.

Week 2: Anastasia and I took photographs of different body parts inspired by John Coplan and  and portraits inspired by  Francesca Woodman.

Week 3: We developed and processed our film. Unfortunately a lot of our negatives were missing due to the shutter speed being too quick and the aperture letting in too much light.

Spare Time: Photography Workshop: Project Brainstorm

Mine and Anastasia’s brainstorm for our photography workshop

My Fine Art Blog

1) Distortion of the female body[hands compressing parts of the body-zoomed in]

2) Squashed faces on various transparent surfaces. (windows, plastic.. etc)

3) influenced by Woodman- people hold a picture of their unexpressive face over their heads and the flowing drawing under it.

4) pinhole?

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Spare Time: Photography Workshops: Week One

The first session was a seminar on the different uses of photography.

Francesca Woodman

• Places self in photographs – performative
• Never sure of how the work was created
• Use of shadow + contrast
• Diaristic entries on the work
• Use of objects for similarities
• Exploration of sexuality

John Coplans

• Sculptural forms – forces body into frame
• Playing with the ideas
• Breaks into triptychs

Melanie Manchot

• Collaborated with mother
• Somewhat provocative
• Mother – Daughter relationship

ORLAN

• Taking performance to the max.
• Link between performance and photography

Sally Mann

• Controversially photographed her children growing up
• ‘Photographing mothers’ fears’

Cindy Sherman

• Doesn’t title her work
• Only person she uses in photographs is herself
• Moves to theatrical photographs
• Works entirely alone

Wendy Ewald

• Collaborations with children
• Revolves around participation
• Asks to recreate dream
• Large format camera/ negatives
• Titled under artist’s name but who is the author?

Rineke Dijkstra

• Photographing teenagers using fill-in flash
• Reality

Danny Treacy

• Not sure about story behind figures immediately
• Larger than life prints
• Found spaces + painted grey, uses material found and creates costumes
• Very independent

Hippolyte Bayard

• Offended that he had not been recognised int he creation of photography
• Stage to create a message

Joe Duggan

• Romanticism staging
• Painted background
• Use of mannequins
• Interested in theatre studies
• Recreated plays and displayed and photographs

Melissa Moore

• ‘Land Ends’ – Ex-hippy colony
• Photographs in mother’s house
• Occupies odd space
• ‘Stealing their soul’

Trish Morrissey

• Collaborations with sister
• Dresses as anyone but themselves

Helena Almeida

• Denies every link you might assume of her work
• Doesn’t all it photography or painting
• Declines that it is herself in the work even though it is obviously her

Valie Export

• Body configurations – yoga positions in a cityscape
• Claim of space
• Performance – Touch cinema

John Stezaker

• Use of found images and combines
• ‘Marriage’

Alexander Rodchenko

• Pop artist
• Political statement through blacking-out faces
• Power of images

Man Ray

• ‘Dust Breeding’
• Solarisation
• Staged some images

Marcel Duchamp

• ‘The Bride Stripped Bare…’

Eva Stenram

• Old NASA images downloaded, rewrote to negatives, left to gather dust and then printed

Bernd und Hilla Becher

• ‘Blast Furnace’
• Topographic photography
• Pin-hole projection

Chuck Close

• Daguerra photography
• Printed on metal plate, shone, buffed.

Anastasia and I

We explained to our tutor, Martina, that we are interested in furthering our collaborative work through these workshops and the artists we have been given to research are the follow collaborations:

• KennardPhillips

• Gilbert and George

• Webster and Noble

• Bloomberg and Shamarim

• Art Lab – Richardson and Cullinan

Spare Time: Learning To Crochet

I decided to finally put some time towards learning to crochet. As per usual, I skipped many of the basics and went straight onto something more difficult. In this case learning how to crochet in the round, starting with Magic Circles.

Crit. Collab. Filming, 1:1 Tutorials, Beaconsfield Exhibition, Seminar

Critical Collaborative Methods Filming

Last night my group went to Q club and gained the footage for the video we will be showing in our seminar next Monday.

1:1 Tutorial

Today was started with a 1:1 tutorial with Tina. Anastasia and I explained how we planned to collaborate this term, to which Tina said that that will be twice as much work but we seemed up for challenge. Through the tutorial we developed our idea from focusing on one culture to focusing on many as we may come across as racist. Anastasia and I agreed that we would focus on the oppression of women in a different culture each week.

To begin with, we will be focusing on the oppression of Burmese woman through their neck rings.

Beaconsfield Exhibition

Artist lead organisation

Judith Dee – Minimal exhibition, workout art, frame of mind as art, ‘faze’ exhibition, helpful in setting up exhibition

Roberto Smith –  use of text, large scale, etching

Faze artists – painting in bacteria, memorised human rights and performed

Residency – derelict building got built up to ‘Tate’ standard

Lily Hartner – Performance Artist

Art and Compromise – speakers talk about they experience/ tackle compromise

Seminar

Today my tutorial group showed our presentations on the set of videos we were told to choose from. The artists that were chosen were:

• Richard Serra 
• Peter Campus
• Andy Warhol
• Gary Hill
• Pipilotti Rist