Crit notes

Action Plan

Notes

30/01/21

Alien test shoot.

01/02/21

Familiarly Unfamiliar shoot and Iridescent bids shoot.

04/02/21

Aliens.

07/02/21

The Walkway shoot.

12/02/21

I have begun reading ‘Alien Phenomenology or What It’s Like to Be a Thing’ by Ian Bogost. It creates a narrative where humans are not the centre of interest. This book encourages the “understanding of the experience of things as things” and I hope it will give me inspiration and ideas for my project which I want to base on the idea that we are not alone in the universe.

Alien Phenomenology findings:

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) collects and analyses data using antennas of the Very Large Array (VLA) in the San Agustin Basin. They do this in a “search for electromagnetic transmissions suggestive of extraterrestrial life. It's a field called astrobiology, one unique in the research community for possessing not a single confirmed object of study”.
We consider all objects “only to ask how they relate to human productivity, culture and politics”. We decide something's value by the benefits and relevance it has to us.
Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism - “Kant argues that space and time are merely formal features of how we perceive objects, not things in themselves that exist independently of us, or properties or relations among them. Objects in space and time are said to be “appearances”, and he argues that we know nothing of substance about the things in themselves of which they are appearances” [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-transcendental-idealism/]
George Berkeley’s subjective idealism - “This form of idealism is “subjective” not because it denies that there is an objective reality, but because it asserts that this reality is completely dependent upon the minds of the subjects that perceive it.” [https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sanjacinto-philosophy/chapter/subjective-idealism/#:~:text=Subjective%20idealism%20made%20its%20mark,grappled%20with%20Berkeley's%20skeptical%20arguments.]

13/02/21

The form I take shoot.

14/02/21

Took original, do not bend photos.

20/02/21

Expansion shoot.

21/02/21

Do not bend collage edits (initial).

Dissociation shoot.

27/02/21

Decades shoot.

04/03/21

Watched the following videos on alien conspiracy theories:

05/03/21

Canvas shoot.

06/03/21

FAD Final Major Project initial research Week: Webinars and Workshops 20-21

The Art of Dreaming

What can happen when we allow ourselves to dream? We explore the link between art and dreaming

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/olafur-eliasson-5239/art-dreaming

The Art of Memory

How can our past inspire us to create? We explore the role of memory in art

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/pierre-bonnard-781/art-memory

Making Art in Isolation

Explore how artists of past and present have been creative whilst in solitude

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/talking-point/making-art-isolation

09/03/21

I buy my plasters in multipacks made and filmed.

15/03/21

Began reading the Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.

“But it did not do more at the time than give me a vague feeling of something out of the true. We went on” (page 14)

Began my project proposal.

16/03/21

Completed my project proposal and researched Nan Goldin and Bertien Van Manen.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/nan-goldin-2649

17/03/21

Test shots for the location of boyds room and bathroom shoots.

20/03/21

Changed my project proposal as 3 weeks has been removed from our project.

Wrote up my research on Nan Goldin and Bertien Van Manen.

22/03/2021

Exploring the concept of the ‘other’

“the condition of Otherness is a person's non-conformity to and with the social norms of society; and Otherness is the condition of disenfranchisement (political exclusion), effected either by the State or by the social institutions (e.g., the professions) invested with the corresponding socio-political power. Therefore, the imposition of Otherness alienates the person labelled as "the Other" from the centre of society, and places him or her at the margins of society, for being the Other.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_(philosophy)#Racism

Looked at some short films https://www.indiewire.com/2020/03/short-films-streaming-great-directors-nolan-waititi-1202218423/

23/03/21

Rewatched and analysed two cars, one night by Taika Waititi. Put on Wix website.

26/03/21

Started creating moodboards for the shoots. Added phenomenology page to wix website. Found second hand clothing for shoots on eBay.

29/03/21

Completed moodboards. Researched Karl Marx’ theory of alienation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation#:~:text=Karl%20Marx's%20theory%20of%20alienation,society%20of%20stratified%20social%20classes.

30/03/21

Planned the scenes i want to shoot tomorrow and uploaded alongside my mood board on my website.

02/04/21

How glad I am filming.