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Alex Q.Arbuckle The hidden lifestory of the iconic ‘Migrant Mother’ (Online) Mashable

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Alina Cohen Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” Ignored Society’s Expectations of Women (Online) Artsy

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Angela Kelly Angela Kelly (Online) Photoparley

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Anon ‘First Women UK’, a photographic exhibition by Anita Corbin (online) National Trust

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Anon Cultural appropriation (Online) Dictionary

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Anon PRESS RELEASE: The sexist messages of TV toy advertising (Online) Let toys be toys

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Narrative theory

“The history of narrative begins with the history of (hu)mankind; there does not exist, and never has existed, a people without narratives.” (Barthes 1966:14)

What is a narrative?

Anything that tells or presents a story, be it by text, picture, performance, or a combination of these. Hence novels, plays, films, photographs, comic strips, adverts, etc., are narratives.

A narrative environment is a space, whether physical or virtual.

A virtual narrative environment might be the narrative framework in which game play can proceed.

A physical narrative environment might be an exhibition area within a museum, or a foyer of a retail space, or the public spaces around a building.

Narratives are... “Able to be carried by articulated language, spoken or written, fixed or moving images, gestures, and the ordered mixture of all these substances; narrative is present in myth, legend, fable, tale, novella, epic, history, tragedy, drama, comedy, mime, painting,...cinema, comics, news items, conversation...Caring nothing for the division between good and bad literature, narrative is international, transhistorical, and transcultural: it is simply there, like life itself.” (Barthes, 1977, p79)

On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine Life is published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White. Life was an overwhelming success in its first year of publication an at its peak, Life had a circulation of over 8 million.

In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. It featured more than 20 of  W. Eugene Smiths’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined.

Typical narrative structure:

Bess Bieluczyk, Subtle Hysteria:

“I have created a character and environment based on stories and my own imaginings of the life of an unhappy housewife. I investigate her psychological terrain through domestic still lifes with a taste of hostility. Her quiet desperation and frustrations manifest themselves in strange displays within the confines her home. I find the evidence of her outlets in her minute obsessions, her petty violence and the aftermath of her little explosions. The home and objects that surround her are beautiful but used, worn and past their prime. I focus on a woman’s solitary rebellion against the restrictions of her domestic life.”

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Stuff and Things - Part 1 (BCOP100)

With materiality is the quality of what matters and whether or not we agree with the quote: "change the material and everything changes with it". For me personally it would change if you were changing the material as the object/thing wouldn't be as practical as what it was before. For example, if a tissue was no longer using soft material, it wouldn't be practical to use as much, like cleaning water that's been spilled over.  

A case study of this would be that Claude Levi-Strauss, an anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology, said that materials are good to think with and by combining two lots of materials together can make you come up with a brand new idea.

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Time, Space and Everyday - Part 2 (BCOP100)

"Time is one of the fundamental dimensions of reality" as said by Eva Hoffman as with time we always run out of it but we always need more of it.

With time, you can tell a story with social reaslim and an example of this would be Shane Meadow's 2006 film 'This Is England" which is set in 1983 as it illustrates how their subculture, especially white nationalists and white supremacists, which led to divisions within the skinhead scene.

A case study of a piece of artwork that includes the story of time is Tracey Ermin's My Bed from 1999 which included a bed that told a story by also using place - which connected back to when we learned about sense of places. This was inspired by Erwin's "sexual yet depressive phase" where she remained in her bed for days without eating or drinking expect for alcohol. This shows how much little time you can have yet still tell a massive story.

This can relate back to one of my projects from college as I made a video of a day in my life and within those 10 hours of my day, I was able to show it within 3 minutes and you could tell what I did during the day and mine and my friends emotions and I think it's so interesting how time can be changed but also shown.

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Time, Space and Everyday - Part 1 (BCOP100)

With places, you have different type of sense such as: neolithic (referring to the period of British, Irish and Manx history that spanned from circa 4000 to circa 2,500 BCE), renaissance (the influence of the European art between 14th - 16th century), industrial revolution (involving the manufacturing and transportation of products), information age (also known as the 21st century) and anthropocene (which is the human era now).

With senses of places, there are different meaning behind them. One example being 'to be orientated' which is like the underground tube maps. Another example having 'tactic knowledge' which means a place cannot be written down or verbalised, like an aesthetic, as you can teach aesthetics and it can also be changed multiple times. Another example is 'Genius Loci' which means the soul of a place.

A case study with creating a place is Rachel Whiteread's 'House' (1993) which shows that you can create a place anywhere and it can still have meaning behind it. Whiteread went on to say " Place is basically a selection of doll’s houses that have been very carefully stage lit from the inside. They are all second-hand objects, which I started collecting about 20 years ago... People may take these things as being rather sentimental – personally I see them as containing a great deal of pathos, as extremely sad, interesting and sympathetic objects. Some of them are really bashed up. They’re made by dads, uncles, grannies, and grandpas – whoever wanted to get involved in making them – in the garden shed."

With places as well, you can create ownership which can be done with graffiti, like for example Southbank in London which was once a skatepark years ago but now it has become filled with graffiti work which now can be owned by the people who left their mark there. Another example would be artists creating art onto things in a certain place, an example from where I live, someone drew little pictures onto trees around a dog park/forest and made a challenge from it so the public could join in.

In conclusion, I never realised how with every place you can create something so small with much more meaning and I would like to refer back to Rachel Whiteread's art with my future projects.

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Semiotics 2 - Reading an Image (BCOP100)

There is a difference with seeing and looking which not many people will realise. This being with seeing, it's something we do arbitrarily as people can ask us "did you see that?" whereas looking is an activity that involves a greater purpose as we choose to look or not look at something and additionally, you can have the power to make a person look at something.

With semiotics, there are different type of signs as well. You have an icon that resembles it's referent and you also have an index that associates with it's reference (for example, smoke can mean fire).

A case study of this can be 'Little Red Hiding Hood'. The original story of 'Little Red Hiding Hood' was created by Charles Perrault, a French author of many famous folk tales such as 'Cinderella' and 'Sleeping Beauty', in 1697. Throughout the years, the story has changed with the storyline, however some signs within the story never changed. For example, the colour red connotes blood, love and danger and with the red cape added onto to that, it shows that the family is wealthy.

Within my art, I like to give hints that can give different meanings as it shows there is more behind the story than what you already think so I think this has helped with what I would like to add to my future projects.  

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Semiotics - Study of Signs (BCOP100)

Semiotics connects back with identity with our belongings. With this, we start with looking at maps as maps tell us a narrative and an analog. A map is also a symbolic representations of our characteristics of a place. You can walk into a place and you can gain so much information with a short amount of time.

For example, if you walked into my bedroom, you would be able to gain all the information with all my interests as I want my bedroom to feel more me. I have posters of my favourite music artists, films and tv series, I have figures of my favourite characters, pictures of friends and places and concert tickets and many other things. On the other hand, you can go to a historical place and see all the history within the place by seeing the architecture and even the people there.

With maps as well, they have given us the identity of culture, nationhood and also ownership while race, religion and geography have acted as powerful catalysts for the creation as well.

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Conclusion

During this module, I am sure that I researched all of the lectures that we were given throughout the first and second semester. Although, I don’t think that all of the research I did was successful. Looking back, I wish that I had spent more time looking more in depth at artists and art movements. I think that if I had done this, it would have benefitted my work more. I would have also written up the lectures closer to the time that they were presented to us. This would have helped my research and write ups more as the notes that I took would have been more clear. I did find the lectures inspiring and a few of them sparked ideas for other projects that I wouldn’t have otherwise thought of However, this module has helped me improve on several skills, like public speaking and teamwork. This comes from the debate and exhibition tasks that were a part of this module. I think to improve on this module further, I would take better notes and harvard reference throughout. This would help my work flow better and help it to make more sense. In conclusion, this module has helped me throughout my projects and has given me a better understanding of the research that I need to complete to aid my other projects.