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ok- so these are photos from the exercise where we were asked to place self in the environment in a way that expresses an emotion- site-specific body sculpture.
in analysing these we were to consider the whole body- postion, site, aesthetic in relation to the emotional concept expressed.
i'm going to leave it at that for now- what emotion am i conveying? is it obvious (?!) what i am interested in is how the photograph gives me a new way of looking- seeing what i looked like according to one viewer- i asked them to move around me which raises interesting issues about audience perception and vantage point on promenade performance work.
more photos in next post...
3 comments:
I love these photos of you on the stairs!
Especially the top two as a progression/series. I read your thoughts that the photos don't convey the same emotion as might be displayed live. However, where you situated yourself for this series creates compositionally interesting photos in the end. So maybe not the result you were aiming for in the workshop, but interesting, captivating results anyway!
hey thanks lena- i just looked at them again now and realised you can't see i have one eye actually open...how everytime i look at photos i often see a different detail, different story.
looking at these photos is very useful for me about how i come across 'posed' to others (albeit constructed through the lens here) and how much my pink dress works in the grey environment which i hadn't really considered as much live. the photos do become something else- far removed from the emotion i was trying to express of fear of heights (i was holding - believe it or not- on white-knuckle tight- and feet shoved firmly up against wall to keep me sure of the wall edge which those that witnessed live did comment on )
so- documentation is subjective but can give new life as another piece of work in itself (not my research at the moment), offer me an opportunity to get some sort of idea of what i look like, make new perhaps unseen in the flesh connections through photographed details now composed together in the frame. all good to learn about how to use photography as a tool to support my performance development
its interesting as well in the fact that the live event only ever was a frozen tableaux and then (fittingly) captured as a frozen moment through the lens- not stills from a moving action based live performance- but how if i presented these purely as 'documentation of a performance' you wouldn't know either way without stating. would be interesting to have considered the oddity of filming this still body sculpture and the resultant reading of that as the camera moved up and around the staircase and me- how the capture through the lens distorts and creates meanings
although my work is using photography and film in the work this exercise poses questions for me viewing self and documenting the experiences purely to further my
practice
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Think we should take a trip to that live art on camera exhibition...oo actually did you see it in Southampton?
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