Starting points – Final Ideas | 2016 Photo A2 Blog

Objective: Contextual studies and developing final ideas

There is now 3 weeks left of this module and it is time for you to begin to develop ideas for final outcomes.

From the Planner Summer 2015 it states that you MUST Produce a number of posts that show evidence of the following:

1. Research: Look at a number of different starting points for developing your own ideas. In particular other artists within performance, photography and video for example see ppt: Performance and Photography, Photomontage and resources from below. Choose at least two artists references.

2. Analysis: Select key works for further analysis. Describe techniques used, interpret meaning, evaluate aesthetic quality. Make links to art history e.g. concept of Dadaism, Photomontage, Futurism, Surrealism, Experimental filmmaking/ Avant-garde cinema, Situationism, Psychogeography, Performance art/Live art, Neo-dadaism, Conceptualism etc.

3. Planning: Write a manifesto with a set of rules (6-10) that provide a framework for your final project. Describe in detail how you are planning on developing your work and ideas in the next two weeks. Think about what you want to achieve, what you want to communicate, how your ideas relate to the themes of Chance, Change and Challenge and how you are going to approach this task in terms of form, technique and subject-matter. Illustrate your ideas with examples, mindmaps, moodboards etc. You can work individually or in groups.

4. Friday 3rd July Group crit: Critical reflection and presentation of your work/ ideas

5. Upload and process images/video using Lightroom/ Photoshop/ Premiere.

6. Final outcome: Edit, experiment and evaluate with a number of different creative outcomes using still images or video. Produce a number of posts that illustrate your working and thinking process, using screen-graps, images and annotation.

7. Create a title for your work and write an artists statement.
Review, reflect and describe the ideas, influences and meaning behind your final outcome. Reflect also on what you have learned during this module on Performance and Photography and evaluate how successful you were in realising your ideas and how it relates to themes of Chance, Change & Challenge.

8. DEADLINE Friday 10th July: Feedback and creative input. from Tom Pope and Gareth Syvret. Make sure you have work ready for presentation!

HELP & SUPPORT:

A list of art movements that you may use as contextual research. Many of them also produced Manifestos:

Dadaism, Futurism, Surrealism, Situationism, Neo-dadaism, Land/Environmental art, Performance art/Live art, Conceptualism, Experimental filmmaking/ Avant-garde cinema (those studying Media make links with your unit on Experimental film)

Here are a list of artists/ photographers that may inspire you:

Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Yves Klein, Bas Jan Ader, Erwin Wurm, Chris Arnatt, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, Joseph Beuys, 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, Luis Bunuel/ Salvatore Dali: , Le Chien Andalou, Dziga Vertov: The Man with a Movie Camera