2015 Photographer in Residence is Tom Pope
This means that we will be working with him on the following days:
- Tuesday 9th June: Workshop at held at the Photo-Archive/ Societe Jersiaise
Tom Pope Intro – talk about his own work/practice.
Students research task about how to engage with the Photo-Archive
Photo-shoot with Tom Pope - Wednesday 17th June St Malo: On location shoot/performance with Tom Pope + teachers in St Malo. Please make sure you have completed relevant paperwork and returned payment.
- Friday 10 July: Hall at Hautlieu School.
Plenary/ feedback/ assessment with Tom Pope
http://www.archisle.org.je/tom-pope-appointed-archisle-international-photographer-in-residence-2015/
Here is a clip where Tom is talking about his work Over the Edge
Here is a link to Tom Pope’s website where you can see a number of different works exploring the relationship between Performance and Photography using both video and stills photography to records his public performances and events.
Another link to a video teaser about his work which was a solo-exhibition So It Goes at London Gallery George and Jorgen
For analysis of his practice and key works think about Tom’s presentation of his work at the Photo-Archive. Use your notes from your notebook as well as carry out independent research. Here are some of the key concepts that underpin’s his work and practice:
Performance
Photography
Chance
Humour/Fun
Repetition
Play
Psychogeography
dérive (drifting)
Situationism (link to a ppt: Situationism)
Dadaism
Public/Private
Challenging authority
Failure
DIY/Ad-hoc approach
Collaboration
Audience participation
For further context and understanding have a look at some of the artists on this list which in one way or another has influence or connects with Tom’s work and practice.
Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Yves Klein, Bas Jan Ader, Erwin Wurm, Chris Arnatt, Chris Burden, Francis Alÿs, , Sophie Calle , Nikki S Lee, Claude Cahun, Dennis Oppenheim, Bruce Nauman, Allan Kaprow, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Marcel Duchamp and the Readymade, Andy Warhol’s film work, Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Marina Abramovic, Pipilotti Rist
Blog
The Arrival
April 27, 2015 by tom | blog, Tom Pope’s Blog
blog http://www.archisle.org.je/category/tom-pope-blog/
Good evening, I’m Tom Pope a London based photographer and film maker and this years International Photographer in Residence at Archisle. Archisle is an international photography programme organised and run by the Société Jersiaise. I have been commissioned to create a new body of work that records Jersey in my style of shooting photographs and film, a solo exhibition of these works will take place in Jersey in September. Alongside this I will be leading a series of workshops for the people of Jersey.
I intend to use this blog to keep you updated as to my progress while also using this platfom to invite those people based in Jersey to participate with the works i make. Taking inspiration from the Société Jersiaise’s extensive archive, photographs and films will be created through improvised game play and orchestrated situations.
“We must develop a systematic intervention based on the complex factors of two components in perpetual interaction: the material environment of life and the behaviours which that environment gives rise to and which radically transform it. …Our action on behaviour, linked with other desirable aspects of a revolution in mores, can be briefly defined as the intervention of games of an essentially new type.”
Guy Debord, Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organization and Action, June 1957