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Family Album Challenge

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From the task: Portraits of Childhood at the Photo-Archive we would like you to investigate your own private and personal family archives and see if you can identity photographs from your photo-albums/ personal archives that represent different decades of image making, working backwards in time i.e. 2010s, 2000s, 1990s and so on.

The student that finds the most images from different decades will win a prize given by the Photo-Archive at Societe Jersiaise. The prize winner will be announced on our last workshop day with Tom Pope at Hautlieu School Friday 10 July. Good hunting!

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Research: Tom Pope

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2015 Photographer in Residence is Tom Pope

This means that we will be working with him on the following days:

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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/

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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

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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

 

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Planner: Performance & Photography

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In the first A2 coursework module you are going to explore Performance and Photography  The aim of this module is to introduce you to a new way of thinking about image-making which involve the element of chance, spontaneity and play. We will be collaboration with Tom Pope, the Archisle Photographer-in-Residence  who will run a few workshops to get us thinking about how to explore elements of performance in photography.

Here is a link to the Planner Summer 2015.

This module will explore different approaches to image-making across different genres such as performance,photography, video, multi-media, installation, land/ environmental art, experimental film-making and avant-gardecinema.

This unit requires you to produce a blog of approx 30+ posts which chart you project from start to finish including research, planning, analysis, recording, experimentation, evaluation, final presentation of creative outcomes such as film, prints or installation.

We will be working to complete a number of different creative outcomes in the next 6 weeks until the Summer holiday.

Deadline is Friday 17th July

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Bruce Nauman Rinde Spinning 2012. Click on video clip below

 

 

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St Malo Day Performances

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Below are the performances we did within the first hour of our day trip in St Malo. I think this was the shoot where we collected the most images and had inspiration as we ended up with quite a few different finished products. I also took some stills from each of the videos which I found to be the most interesting.

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MVI_6976.00_02_57_22.Still007This performance was inspired by Tom Pope’s Weak Anarchy. As you can see this is very weak anarchy with the subject jumping over the off limits tape and sitting in the little crevice that they are keeping the public from running in. The subject then walks out of frame. It is simple but is a small way to go against the norm and to challenge the way people think by doing things that aren’t necessarily the right thing to do or what people are used to seeing.

#2IMG_6978IMG_6986IMG_6982For this performance we also adopted the idea of weak anarchy and tried to see the reactions of the public. I came up with the idea to climb onto this window which has been barred over. I thought that the message of the window says that people aren’t allowed out but then I thought maybe it was there so people cant get in. This is why I decided to climb it and stand in various positions and in different ways to make for an interesting image. This barred window made me wonder what was inside it and why it had been barred up in that way. I thought it would be a fun experiment.

#3MVI_6976.00_01_11_00.Still002Here I challenged myself to see if I could throw a small wheel, which Tania and I found, over the wall. On the other side of the wall was a small car park so we knew that no people would get hit by it. It did take me a few tries but finally I managed to throw the small wheel over the wall and triumphantly walked away.

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Pushing the limitations of the public. Here we decided to interact with the public and tried a few different things in order to get a reaction out of the public. Some worked better than others.

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Hiding in a bush. Here we took inspiration from Tom Pope, Weak Anarchy and basically did the same thing but instead of doing this to challenge the rules of private property, we decided to challenge the public and see what they thought of it. I simply walked into the bush, I got quite a few odd looks and some people took photos.

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