Tag: Script

BOW: A5 publication development

~ Sarah-Jane Field ~ 2 Comments

It is interesting to think of the term ‘compost’ which Harraway uses to describe us – and how I described the following – “… the composited intra-active nature of the self/others and reality – with that in mind, this work by Alba Zari is an useful reference – https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alba-zari-the-y”.  Different usage, similar etymological paths, however.

Having thought about this over the last couple of days, I feel like I may have solved an issue I was having with the second half of the publication. It didn’t feel like the same work as the first half. I decided to make more of the composited intra-actions I had set up in the first half – and carry those through.

This is the latest iteration – BOWA5 (sizeA4) (1 July)

I am not sure if I will be able to have red on the inner cover pages but will inquire.

I need to put some kind of statement  – probably on the back cover. But have not written anything yet.

The extract for the essay is currenlty too dense and needs an edit – it is not appropriate for BOW but something from it should probably come into the publication statement too  –   the intra-active emergent nature of self, other, surrounding reality, and internal landscape is key. (Although  – I am loath to use any alienating language for the the BOW and will think carefully about that).

See – https://sjflevel3.photo.blog/2020/06/22/cs-a5-draft-extract/

I have not solved the inner middle pages that are currently covered in place holder text yet but working on it…

I have begun thinking about how to make some of the combinations in the publication dynamic for an online version – that part of the work is undoubtedly going to extend into SYP.

BOW: A3 script rather than a ​manifesto

~ Sarah-Jane Field ~ 8 Comments

After writing last night, I thought about where I am.

  • Why am I making a book with attempts at still life when I’ve been finding my way with moving image of one sort or another?
  • I definitely want to include some sort of moving image element any installation
  • I wondered if this move away from moving image was promoted by a comment which I felt came with a little jab about the course being a ‘photography degree’.
  • That comment was good though because it consolidated the direction I was going in, and suddenly things started to make sense – a doorway – exploring the boundaries we place around categories of various forms of image-making
  • This reconfiguring of boundaries is exactly what my essay is about, an examination of the ‘cut’. Where do we place boundaries and differentiation? Given the changes to our world, we should not assume anything and so I am looking specifically at the making of images before the broad spectrum of different disciplines emerge. (See my post  – Life After New Media) 
  • When I was an actor I would sometimes stick my script in a book especially if it was a photocopy and then make notes and draw in the booklet. The script would end up being covered in all sorts of doodles.
  • And so, I decided the word manifesto on the cover should be replaced with ‘script’ and the subheading is now scaled right back (see below)
  • This suggests I might/should create the script of ‘cuttings’ and then make some sort of film/performance based on it thereafter (A4/A5)
  • I spent tonight printing what I have so far (although dismissed some of the texts for now) and ordered a handful of images last night too.
  • I have printed on different materials – paper, newsprint, transparency, tracing paper etc.
  • I have a tiny 13.5 x 9.5 book and printed everything to fit on these tiny pages so that I can make a mini-book mock-up, including texts that will fold out. (I guess at least one image should do that too.) See incoherence – page 118 Edgar Martins book, essay by Roger Luckhurst – ‘work to derail the over-coherence any series or display … inevitably imposes’
  • By using different materials I hope I am beginning to ‘artistically’ emulate the Standard Model of Reality. This does feel ‘ridiculous’ and any scientist would probably laugh but by using different materials, different media, layers of meaning and symbolism rather than focusing on one single isolated/discrete object, I hope I somehow addressing the ‘Cartesian habit’.Below: Standard model flow cart, one image of my efforts this evening – a photograph printed on graph paper and a cover currently printed on newsprint and will stick with a found portrait. Will upload a video and shots of the little booklet when it’s made.
  • Finally, the little booklet is a small precious thing. Gold has emerged as a key theme along with brown paper and second-hand objects. Like the themes in the text query and challenge reductionism and commodification.
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