The Everyday: Project Overview and Ideas

Project Description

During this project you will be asked to create a work or series of works which interrogate an aspect of the everyday. The everyday could be seen to encompass many aspects of contemporary life, including everyday routines, transport, exchange interaction, and popular culture.

Idea 1

For one part of my project, I'd like to film/photograph buildings at closing time. I got the idea for this when working on the self-directed photography project; the image of a lit window at night highlighted what goes on behind the glass more so than a window during the day would. The recording of the images would be as unintrusive as possible, so that it becomes a documentative narrative rather than an illicited one. However, when filming, I want to have a static camera position so that the image of a building front becomes the stage of the story. I want to film the NCAD design building at closing time, mainly because of ease and its likeness to actual office buildings. I'll be photographing other buildings throughout the city (around the IFSC, the AIB bank on Baggot St., office buildings along the Quays) at night time as well.


Initial Research

Videos inspired by Andy Warhol's piece, 'Empire'










Gursky
http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/andreasgursky070521_560.jpg
http://www.notifbutwhen.com/2/Gursky.jpg
http://cache.gridskipper.com/assets/resources/2007/03/AndreasGursky.jpg


Idea 2

Looking at the idea of the routine in everyday life, from tomorrow onwards I'll be posting up my whereabouts at (approximate) times throughout the day. I'll be documenting my day through the locations I visit. The final product will be a geographical diary which I can represent on a map, with a different coloured 'timeline' for each day dotting out my daily journeys.

Initial Research

Hans Haacke- MOMA Poll; Gallery Goers’ Birth Place and Residence Profile
http://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/1168433356
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/hans_haacke/