My homage to Wolfgang Tillmans
Make Til you fake it -week 12
Tillmans keeps it a secret when it comes to talk about the exact process used to make this series.
5 elements used: 1-work was created without a camera
2-darkroom manipulations with light
3-process was left to chance
4-presence of chromatic zones
5-idea of nothingness
I was part of a project where we planned a vegan dinner. We had to follow the following conditions:
We were inspired by the following movies and art projects:
We wanted to challenge our comfort levels by eating with our hands in front of acquaintances. There are numerous taboos surrounding food and its consumption. The fact we adapted easily to the conditions of this project showed unfortunately, no adverse effects. We mixed savoury and sweet and we still managed to keep our food in. Even though food spilling was encouraged, most of us looked very neat in the end. The food was too easy to handle and had we experimented with different consistencies, we would have ended up with different results.
On the flip side, we learned about studio lighting, filming, vegan cooking, and working in a group. I had never used Final Cut Pro before and I managed to make this short movie in a couple of hours. In retrospect, we learned while having fun.
Christian Schad - Amourette
Vivian Maier, the best street photographer never heard of!
Milton Glaser’s thoughts on the fear of failure.
As the daughter of a pigeon owner, I can’t help but like this:
Our class recreated ‘Bathroom’ from Thomas Demand using paper, foam, tape, nails, & baking paper.
Thomas Demand, Badezimmer / Bathroom, 1997, C-Print / Diasec, 160 x 122 cm, © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
We were 17 students who worked on Thomas Demand’s ‘Bathroom’. It took us 7 hours to build it and another hour to set the lights correctly for the shoot. We shot it with a medium format camera. It was an interesting experience working together. We definitely impressed our teachers with the overall process and final product. Like Demand, we destroyed the installation at the end. The chosen image was scanned and lightly edited.
I wasn’t aware that Demand created the bathroom scene from an iconic photograph of post-war Germany: the politician Uwe Barschel found dead in a bathtub in a hotel in Geneva. His death was and remains a mystery until today.
Fake it ‘til you make it - Project 10: Thomas Demand
goodbye Jellyka-Estrya, you whore of a font. Haha no, we had some good times. But change is good.
An article on Étienne-Jules Marey, the pioneer of chronophotography or motion photography.
One of my teachers, Sanja Pahoki, has a show at Light Projects until June 5th. An interesting exhibition documenting her last travels to Croatia to see her grandmother.
My take on Jeff Wall’s archaeological photo project.
Jeff Wall, Fieldwork. Excavation of the floor of a dwelling in the former Sto:lo nation village, Greenwood Island, Hope, B.C., August, 2003, Anthony Graesch, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, working with Riley Lewis of the Sto:lo band, 2003. Transparency in lightbox, 219.5 x 283.5 cm.
Collection of the artist. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Fake it ‘til you make it - Project 9: Jeff Wall
I shot this project in the Fitzroy Gardens using my digital SLR. I was planning to superimpose 2 images. I used myself as the subject. I printed the photo on Satin Baryta tracing paper (40 x 60 cm) which I displayed on an old X-Ray light box. Just like Lorca, Wall stages his photos even though they appear candid.I submitted this photo for the Grounds and Buildings Photo Prize 2011 which is sponsored by a past staff member of the University of Melbourne. It was shot using a Pentax 6x7 with Kodak TMAX 400.
My project was inspired by diCorcia’s series Hollywood 1990-1992 where men were sought on the street were offered to be paid to appear in a photograph.
Eddie Anderson; 21 years old, Texas; $20 by diCorcia
Fake it ‘til you make it - Project 8: Philip-Lorca di Corcia
At first glance, diCorcia’s photos look like spontaneous shots when in reality, he carefully stages his photos with electronic flashes. His images are like tableaux: they are highly contrasted which adds to the theatricality of the overall composition.
In my project, I used available light. I purposefully positioned the subjects in such a way so the light would create outlines.
5 elements used:
Photo manipulation of skeleton creatures in various environments. Check out the series here
Louise Bourgeois holding Fillette (1968), photographed by Mapplethorpe, 1982
I just finished reading 'Louise Bourgeois: destruction of the father, reconstruction of the father'. The book consists of writings and interviews dated between 1923-1997 edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Most of the content is in English, some of which was translated from French by Bernadac. Accompagnying the texts are black-and-white photographs of Bourgeois’ childhood, as well as images documenting her various exhibited scupltures. There are drawings, sketches, and scanned pages of her writings.
Bourgeois kept diaries from a young age and throughout her life. She wrote in both French and English, which she mostly did during periods of insomnia. Her creative inspiration stemmed from her childhood traumas. In a few interviews she explained how by reenacting difficult childhood memories using sculpture enabled coming to terms with the experience. The same themes are explored throughout career and have become her drive to create obsessively. This book is a gem. I thoroughly enjoyed it and Louise Bourgeois is undoublty my new found inspiration.
I dropped by Seventh Gallery yesterday to check out the new exhibition ‘Curtin’. There 10 emerging artists featured in the show. The common thread is contemporary culture. I spoke with one of the curators, Johann Rashid, whose project is displayed in the room at the far back. Rashid used a 8mm-film still which he scanned and printed. The final print has a green hue reminiscing of old found photos. It’s probably my favorite piece in the show. Rashid put together a book linked to this show of the same title. It documents the history behind the Curtin House through the eyes of 8 artists who are also currently exhibiting at Seventh Gallery. The show runs until May 14th 2011.
'Somewhere to Disappear' a film on Alec Soth's photo project on American men who've retreated from society.
