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Bibliography:
The man with the movie camera. 1929. [Film] Directed by Dziga Vertov. Soviet Russia: s.n.
The, C., 1979. MoMa: Notes in time by Nancy Spero. [Online] Available at: http://www.moma.org/collection/works/37539?locale=zh [Accessed Tuesday October 2016].
Concept statement:
The idea of the ‘Now’ is one that varies from person to person, entity to entity and so forth (you get the point) Our interpretation of the now is the understanding that it in itself is a paradox. The power of ‘nowness’ is the fact that is a phenomenon that occurs parallel to all other versions of the present. Someone else now could be another’s past or present or even future. This is the idea that we aimed to capture in our publication.
Plenty of inspiration was drawn from the piece “The man with the Movie Camera” (1929); a piece set in which documents snapshots of everyday life and how different people experience their version of the now right down to the smallest details. He does so by travelling through the city and photographing the sense of now in its rawness (Vertov, 1929).
We played with reconstruction and deconstruction of concepts and materials found in magazines and postcards. An act which in itself aimed to portray a version of the now that has already been documented through this art forms. We have reconstructed a past idea of a wide spectrum of ‘now’ and used it to create a publication that highlights a now that everyone can relate to with issues such as race, sex, gender and of course Vegans. This is a technique that artist Nancy Spero who works with cut painted paper, gauche, pencil and joined pieces of paper with which she aims to relay a powerful narrative through her art (The, 1979).
We hope that within this zine you will find and resonate with your now.
Assessment 3_ Zine
Assignment 3
A few of the pages from the publication
EXPERIMENTATION: PRACTICE LED RESEARCH
Working hands-on in this assignment, with materials that we can touch has enabled us to stretch the different ways we can work with various materials. MAjority of the project works with construction and deconstruction where practice led research has enabled us to create various effects in the various layers of the contents of the zine.
In this particular experimentation, i created an interesting effect after ripping the pasted piece of paper off of the base. The glitch like effect it creates is one that adds volumes on to the message of this page of the zine
The final assessment aims to variate the layout of the zine and the content of the zine to best represent the theme of “Now”
Kustera Projects Red Hook, ‘The Ridiculous Now’ lays the artwork out to the viewer in form of a timeline which in turn tells a story in its own right. The display of the publication, we believe, is very powerful and instrumental to the representation of the message within the zine.
We will further experiment with various ways of displaying the work.
Research To help formula ideas for the final assessment I look into zine design and some example of collage in zines. This research lead me to this zine “The Subway Sun” it uses a very interesting layering of text and images which creates a really nice overall image. It this very non-linear layout will work very nicely with the topic of the now.
http://viralart.vandalog.com/…/IGTimes-Volume-7-David-Schmi…
The group has decided to take a different approach to the assignment than what would be expected. We would like to work with collage "manual Photoshop' and proceed to scan these images. We would like to work with the unique textures that materials create in real life and how this can translate digitally. An analogue meets digital piece so to speak. The inspiration of the umbrella theme and direction of this work comes from contemporary artist Nancy Spero who works with cut painted paper, gauche, pencil and joined pieces of paper. With these she aims to see the viewer involved in a piece of art that engages with a powerful narrative. Much like we would like to do with our publication. We would like to be able to learn from and experiment with similar techniques to have a narrative unfold with our work
EXPERIMENTATION:
We walked around the COFA campus and attempted to accumulate a story of how people felt about the political now in American politics. We showed them an image of Donald Trump and captured their reactions at the exact moment we showed them the image. (pictured below)
We went further to ask them about their thoughts on the issue and peoples ideas fell on the same place of the spectrum: Disgust. A few of the terms that stood out in their answers were phrases such as: 1. "FUCKING IDIOT" 2. "ERGH, HE DOES NOT DESERVE ANY MORE OF A REACTION THAN THAT"
These words or phrases could be played with when editing the pictures if the final publication.
Another aspect of the publication we went on to esperiment with was the way we photographed the pictures. We played around with the exposure settings of the camera that seemed to edit the picture for some of the subjects and provide a sense of fragility and intractability that enhanced the subjects of some of the images.
RESEARCH: Our publication is one that aims to understand and relay the idea of 'now' through photography as a major tool in telling the stories of the different forms of 'nowness' that people experience. We are all living in a general umbrella of the Now in one way or another, however we all experience or react to this phenomenon in different ways. We drew a lot of inspiration from Brandon Stanton, an American photographer and blogger who started telling the stories of different average NewYorkers he found around the city. His portraits and conversations with these people relayed to the world the sense of now that people were experiencing. This information was shared and read by people on the other side of the world, for some, or even just down the street for others. There was a sense of community that we developed with the photographed subjects and even to some extent gained an understanding of now but through their eyes. As a result, one may be able to look at life, or their now in a different perspective.
To begin our third assessment our group decided to separately interpret ‘The Now’ through photography. Our aim in this experiment was to collate our findings and extract a potential narrative.
COLLABORATION AND COMMUNITY
Art for everyone. Changing the idea of ‘meaningless’ doodles through collaboration and scale. When artworks are put together and presented on a large scale their meaning is changed. We asked the class to draw a hamburger and submit them to the front to view as a whole instead of individually.
Final Piece Assessment 2
Assessment 2 Concept statment
The Package (2016)
Bouncing off my piece and theme of rebellion from assessment one, I found myself being challenged and even more being forced to rebel from what I thought I should be doing with the current project. The Package explores the themes of sexuality both for females and males and how it has grown and been interpreted in both the western and Ugandan culture to be precise.
This work was inspired by week 5 where we studied the theme of desire and this pushed me to do more research on desire as regards to sexuality in a ‘conservative’ culture such as the one in Uganda, East Africa. Plenty of google searches on female sexuality led me to various articles that explored issues on enhancing the desire of women (sexually) and how they would be able to do so. A snapchat story recently popped up as well exploring the idea of a “Designer Vagina” that is basically a reconstructed vagina. One that has been rejuvenated to please both the woman or the sexual partner.
The term designer vagina resonated with me and triggered memories of numerous posters I saw in my hometown, Kampala, plastered on electricity poles. These posters sang out to whoever saw them “For penis enlargement, call 078923451” or “to Fix dryness, call 0783928429”. I was always amused by these signs but looking back it shows me that sexual desire is something that is craved. People are willing to spend insane amounts of money to buy this package that will in turn enhance their package.
Whilst exploring the concept of female sexuality and how it is viewed in Uganda, I uncovered some interesting facts. Some Ugandan tribes were (are) driven by sexual desire as seen through most of the traditional dances. It is something that is celebrated and encouraged. Research (as well as awkward conversations with my mother) have shown that a Ugandan Tribe, the Baganda, have a cultural practice that seems to have designer vagina properties. The practice is called “Okukyalira ensiko” where the labia minora is pulled and elongated so as to tickle and entice their partner during sex. (Sseremba, 2012) However, with colonization and globalization, sexual desire became something that was taboo in an environment that used to celebrate it. Thinking about how rebellious the people who put up those posters were inspired me to see how far I could push my art work on desire.
In the creation of the work, I was inspired by Giacometti’s suspended ball that shows two objects that appear to look like fruit in a motion that resembles the rocking movement during sex. These objects seem like they are going to fill each other’s voids but actually never doing so (Wolf, 2016). For my final piece, I have been exploring the theme of sexuality and how society has the power to sex or “desex” items. Linguistic research shows that words have only as much power and meaning as different societies give to them and this applies in the case of sexual desire. It may be taboo in some places but can be freely talked about in others without judgement (Fromkin, et al., 2015). The materials in this work are ones that I have redefine, switched or stretched their gender roles to show the power that society’s view on desire can have.
I used items that I found around college, such as the wine glass, the box and the glitter. The box was a used shoe box from forever new, I like the idea that the work is being presented in a box that once held something that was purchased. Perhaps signifying that sexual desire is something that can be purchased in this day and age. The wine plastic wine glass is in a shape that is typical of a what I believe a vagina could look like, it is rather feminine and can be read as that here. However, the fact that is coming out of a package (the box), it can also be interpreted as a penis as society usually relates the word package to the penis. In that respect, I decided to see how far I can mix up the gender roles in this piece and applied glitter glue that appeared to be secreting out of the sexual organ (be it a penis or a vagina). The glitter proceeds to tempt to drip into a bottle that holds happy pills that must be ‘consumed in case of love intoxication’. I really enjoy the paradox of gender roles and rules this piece creates. I believe it pushes the boundaries and forces us to ask whether sexual desire is really taboo in some spaces or has it been created to be so? It also pushes to ask the question of whether gender roles of items are something that really exist? An extension to the work that leaves application and interpretation to the viewer is the flashlight accompanied with the sign “Use me”. It was tested and its usage was varied. Whilst some used it for penetration of the work, others simply shone light on it. The paradoxes and contradictions that this work creates makes it really interesting.
Bibliography
Fromkin, V. et al., 2015. An Introduction to language. 8th ed. Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia.
Sseremba, Y., 2012. The Campus Journal. [Online] Available at: http://campusjournal.ug/index.php/relationship/sex/498-okukyalira-ensiko-the-buganda-way-of-enhancing-sexual-pleasure [Accessed 19 September 2016].
Wolf, J., 2016. The Art History Modern Insight. [Online] Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-giacometti-alberto-artworks.htm [Accessed 19 September 2016].
I have been exploring the ideas of what classifies as feminine or masculine in this day and age. After sitting in one of the longest linguistics classes of all eternity, i actually learned that words only mean what we want them to and items are only identified as male and female because of what society has influenced us to think. There are languages such as luganda that is native to Uganda that are not identified by sex. SO it got me thinking about ‘desexing’ items/ of my project.
I’m still working my way through it but this is what i have been working with. i quite like the simplicity and the contrast of textures between these two materials. It could take up the role of the female vagina be the vagina taking up the role of penis. The feeling that this glitter glob could possibly plop onto the floor is quite interesting. It almost like you are anticipating for it to happen. When it has light shone through it, creates a piece of art on its own.
I’m excited about this! mostly cuz nothing was working up till this point!
Experimentation assignment 2 I wanted to see how far I could push the boundaries of the materials I have been working with. I played with the idea of flipping through newspapers here and apples it to the different layers of the vagina. It almost seems to communicate the point that things are not always as they seem on the surface and you should flip through to get the full story and dig deeper. I also think this technique really touches on the idea of the lips of the vagina. I made the base of the piece a bit harder than my first attempt. To embody the idea of the shield. But I like the contrast that the soft baby pink flower and the dark hardness of the shield. However it is still penetrating this thing that's means to protect. I may Experiment with other materials but explore the context and themes here a bit further
Research, Assignment 2
Giacometti, Suspended ball.
This was touched upon in week 5 on the topic of desire. It a piece that implies the make and female sexual organs in a way that they look like fruit but your mind can still decipher the innuendo behind them.
I like the fact that there seems to be an ever looming chance that they will fill each others voids and it highlights the idea of desire very well.
In relation to my piece for assignment 2, This concept ties in well with the themes of time and context of the piece. From an African background, sex is something that is never spoken about, i mean i still have not gotten the sex talk from my parents. But this was not the case in Traditional societies, Female sexuality was an idea that was celebrated but has slowly faded out.
I am thinking about how my piece could be viewed and interpreted by someone of African origin and trying to be rebellious but still get the message across. The concept inspired by the suspended ball may be able to help me do that.
**the plot thickens**
