Tag: Artist

Research: (repost) Bit by Bit, Mikhael Subotzky’s Destructive Collage Process Dismantles Depictions of White “Founding Fathers” | Magnum Photos

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This work could/should be referenced in the essay and when I do any last minute changes, it is worth including (I’d have to get rid of something quite significant to make room though). Subotzky’s words are so familiar to me – the need to confront his own privilege and complicity, the recognition that his inquiry is so relevant and current – and to keep going with his work, as well as the deescalated position of the camera in his process.

“The photographer discusses his creative process and the importance of breaking historical cycles of racism, violence, and oppression”
— Read on www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/bit-by-bit-mikhael-subotzkys-destructive-collage-process-dismantles-depictions-of-white-founding-fathers/

Artist: Mayumi Hosokura ‘New Skin’

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As I continue to think about the online/moving element I was grateful to Catherine for sending me a link to this film by Mayumi Hosokura which is also accompanied by a book published by Mack. It has a very similar theme to mine – although I don’t specifically talk about feminism, it is clear the gaze and feminity are very much part of it my own work. I am also more focused on semiotics and the quirky things the Ai says which can be humorous – but flesh and scanning and the differences between materials are all there. Mine could be called New Eyes  – but I’m sticking with the current title for now, although may shorten it.

I also took photos of the inside of the scanner, like Hosokura does here although hers are moving  – which I’ve not used but I do keep thinking about those earlier images of film, negatives, and the scanner, so maybe something I should return to. (Really annoying I can’t photograph the SEM tools after lockdown happened). It’s useful to see this rendering: the repetition, layering, disruption, and cuts.

Thanks again to Catherine for sending me the link.

Artist: Edgar Martins Siloquies and Soliloquies

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Am trying to find out more about this work. I am particularly interested in Martins’ ability to mix archival and original photography as well as text. Looking for as much exposure to this work as possible – if anyone has the book, I’d love to take a look at it.

Having only seen the work online so far, I am so impressed by its power and focus. I am also interested in the range of forms – still gallery prints, videos, book, interviews, talks – utilising every way possible to convey information.

Noted Virilio’s comments on death and reminded of Wegee https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/weegee

Will keep investigating.

http://www.edgarmartins.com/video/siloquies-soliloquies-death-life-interludes-compilation-video/

http://www.edgarmartins.com/video/siloquies-and-soliloquies-on-death-life-and-other-interludes-open-eye-gallery-liverpool/

Some useful links from Doug  – Martins talks about relevant ideas (uncertainty principle – although important to recall Barad opts for indeterminacy over uncertainty as interpreted by Bohr)

Colberg reprints Martins’ response to NYT withdrawing his images – ‘As fraught and as contradictory as much of the information being portrayed often is, it reveals a polymorphic and multiform reality, a world of flux and flow that is in a perpetual state of uncertain transformation and where the constant search for answers only leads to more questions.’ (Colberg, 2009) Martins alludes to entanglement as the housing crisis and the issue of ‘reality’ in photography intersect in this episode.

http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/07/edgar_martins_how_can_i_see_what_i_see_until_i_know_what_i_know/

Truthy lies: photographers speak out on Edgar Martins

This is not a House @ The New Art Gallery Walsall (UK)

Artists: Susan Hiller 1960-2019

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Suggested in A2 BOW Feedback: Susan Hiller – e.g. Punch and Judy (7 March 1940 – 28 January 2019)

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From https://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/hiller/exhibition-2.php
Ghost Susan Hiller from Artrabbit
From Art.rabbit.com https://www.artrabbit.com/events/susan-hiller-ghost-tv
Demons and Dancing
From https://thequietus.com/articles/25645-susan-hiller-interview

(Gosh, I am annoyed I missed Hiller’s work which was being exhibited in London until recently.)

https://www.artrabbit.com/events/susan-hiller-ghost-tv

From the above video

  • “translations of phenomena of light”
  • “translating into something we can perceive” (see Donald Hoffman’s theory)
  • “science has gone beyond this” (dualism between rational and irrational) – I so agree and want this in my work somehow
  • “we spend an enourmous amount of time dreaming and that is beyond reason”
  • “committed to looking at things which are not acknowledged or ridiculed  – a whole range of things like this”

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  • Also interested in the way cinema has replaced religion (I have been so interested in how the cinema is making the same stories as we have seen in mythology)
  • She is interested in the devices of cinema and how they communicate the magical, magical, non-rational
  • Think Hiller’s work is extremely relevant for me
  • The Clinic piece is “very austere, very difficult, and challenging” which relies entirely on people’s imagination and willingness to engage.
  • belief in rationality is a belief system
  • looks at the commodification of spirituality
  • looks at social world
  • difference between subject matter (e.g. apples) and content (about other things)
  • people get diverted by the subject matter and don’t reflect on the content
  •  different relationships between sense and modality  – sees this as a possibility
  • voice is body
  • work today is heavily influenced by the 70s
  • See 19.16 mins to see moving image and object installed
  • I’m only at the sketchbook stage, she ends her interview with

I love what I have seen of this work so far.