for some reason, one of the videos isn't showing up in the previous post. So I'm now posting it on its own, hopefully it'll show up.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
New Video Experiment
I won't put any explanation up, I want to see what people's reactions are. I didn't start out with any idea or purpose other than to experiment with light and focus, but I got a pretty strong theme coming through the collection of images I gathered and I went with it. So here is my next video experiment:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Project Statement
Project Statement
I want to explore the relationship between the two sides to being human: the physical and the conceptual. Through my project, I want to not only locate my own place in time and space, but also explore the limits which are placed on the interactions between these two ‘personas’ so to speak. In a similar fashion to Stan Brakhage, I want to see how I can manipulate a medium, specifically video and digital photography in my case, to convey the parallel tangibility and intangibility of human existence.
I want to experiment with video, filming through physical filters such as textiles and magnifying glasses, to see what images I can create through physical manipulation of the medium rather than post-production editing, or digital enhancement. I also want to film liquids mixing with each other, a slow view of an abstract-lookinh physical process. I looked at Wolfgang Tillmans’ work in Berlin, and would like to approach video in a similar way as he approached analog photography.
I also want to document the lifespan of one of my pairs of shoes, naming the photographs after the locations in which I photographed my feet. With these photographs, I want to show that a lot of an experience is internal; I don’t reveal much of the physical surroundings in which I’m located in the shots, except for the ground on which I’m walking or standing. References could be drawn to the Bechers’ photographic work, documenting consistencies within a modern society.
My work will be subtle studies of my personal relationship to the external world, resulting in atleast two video pieces and a series of photographs.
I want to explore the relationship between the two sides to being human: the physical and the conceptual. Through my project, I want to not only locate my own place in time and space, but also explore the limits which are placed on the interactions between these two ‘personas’ so to speak. In a similar fashion to Stan Brakhage, I want to see how I can manipulate a medium, specifically video and digital photography in my case, to convey the parallel tangibility and intangibility of human existence.
I want to experiment with video, filming through physical filters such as textiles and magnifying glasses, to see what images I can create through physical manipulation of the medium rather than post-production editing, or digital enhancement. I also want to film liquids mixing with each other, a slow view of an abstract-lookinh physical process. I looked at Wolfgang Tillmans’ work in Berlin, and would like to approach video in a similar way as he approached analog photography.
I also want to document the lifespan of one of my pairs of shoes, naming the photographs after the locations in which I photographed my feet. With these photographs, I want to show that a lot of an experience is internal; I don’t reveal much of the physical surroundings in which I’m located in the shots, except for the ground on which I’m walking or standing. References could be drawn to the Bechers’ photographic work, documenting consistencies within a modern society.
My work will be subtle studies of my personal relationship to the external world, resulting in atleast two video pieces and a series of photographs.
The Places Under my Feet
This is a new and continuing photo project I'm working on, where I document the life of my (relatively) new converse sneakers. I bought them the day before going to Berlin, and the trip to the airport was the first time I actually wore them, so I've photographed them from the start of their attachment to my feet. I want to keep this going until they're completely worn out.
Berlin Biennial (part 3)
Day 2
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
The collections at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum were incredible; among the permanent collection I especially loved Cy Twombly's work, and after seeing Donald Judd's work for real instead of just as a photograph, I felt a bigger appreciation for his work. I also loved the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition, and his work is quite an interesting research point for me in relation to my final project. He experiments with photography much like Brakhage would have experimented with film; he approached it in a tactile way, exploring the physical side of the medium to create a certain aesthetic to mediate a concept of the relation between the represented and the representative.
Day 3
We went to the New National Gallery, where the Biennial exhibition wasn't that impressive save for 2 or 3 film pieces (2 related ones experimented with lights moving behind a raindrop covered sheet of glass, the other was a Susan Hiller (?) piece which explored lost or endangered languages and dialects. The collection which was on show on the lower ground had a few impressive pieces; again, Donald Judd, as well as several pieces by Rebecca Horn, who's motorised sculptures of butterflies and brushes, etc, were quite intriguing.
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
The collections at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum were incredible; among the permanent collection I especially loved Cy Twombly's work, and after seeing Donald Judd's work for real instead of just as a photograph, I felt a bigger appreciation for his work. I also loved the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition, and his work is quite an interesting research point for me in relation to my final project. He experiments with photography much like Brakhage would have experimented with film; he approached it in a tactile way, exploring the physical side of the medium to create a certain aesthetic to mediate a concept of the relation between the represented and the representative.
Day 3
We went to the New National Gallery, where the Biennial exhibition wasn't that impressive save for 2 or 3 film pieces (2 related ones experimented with lights moving behind a raindrop covered sheet of glass, the other was a Susan Hiller (?) piece which explored lost or endangered languages and dialects. The collection which was on show on the lower ground had a few impressive pieces; again, Donald Judd, as well as several pieces by Rebecca Horn, who's motorised sculptures of butterflies and brushes, etc, were quite intriguing.
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