BOW A2: Revisiting format, image and sequence​

A1 – A film montage appropriating old sci-fi movie which, in retrospect, fits very neatly with the direction of BOW  – sirens, mythology, cinema, the female form, feminism, post-structuralism

A2 – (originally submitted here) veered off in a different direction while working with Pic London, but re-identified the importance of text/my own writing in my own work. Also explored notion of ‘objects’ and assemblages which have played a significant role since – relating to agential realism and I have recently discovered important in Deleuzian thought.

While working on Pic London work I was in Italy making two different types of image – one with flash, one without. I have rendered the ones without black and white – this conveys the darkness in a way colour doesn’t seem to in these images and the flash ones are also all about isolating objects in the darkness. And darkness was an important keyword in the background of Pic London group discussions for a variety of reasons – it ends up in my writing too as the women sit in the darkness waiting to see dying stars.

Additionally, the research booklet created by my group for Pic London has influenced some of my ideas/explorations for the overall BOW.

Darkness and objects are key visual cues in the A2 project.

I feel I have two projects unfolding for BOW

1. The book which I submitted as Cuttings for A3 and which I will likely change to Script for A4 as I continue developing.
2.  Another book which sits outside that work – as a separate project currently titled This Family Too. 
3. A1 might be shown alongside two projects I made for DI&C in an installation for the Cutting/Script work  – all of which focus on the way the film industry contain our myths and shape our landscapes.

This post is aimed at recording developments for A2 – This Family Too (working title)

Two groups, taken last summer in Italy as we wondered what would happen with Brexit. Soe the same here but different crops or rendering. (click on individual image)

As with the overall project, there are key ways of seeing which underpin the way I want to put the work together and communicate:

• Repetition and difference/Diffraction
• Entanglement/Rhizome

Group 1 

Group 2

I have ordered 5x4s and 6x4s so I can figure out if these images can work together in any way and the sequencing.

Here is an early idea of how a zine might look – Mono only

I am definitely making this as a zine and will offer to sell for £10 or so online, regardless of OCA. But I have yet to decide whether I submit it as A2 – a slight diversion from the main BOW of not – or just as an example of offshoot work that came about during the making of the main work, or to simply get on with it as a separate enterprise altogether. It’s very different from the main work in terms of genre but it contains approaches, subject and underlying philosophies that I am exploring.