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Essay on lewis bush, claude cahun and clare rae.

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Photography comparison essay

Lewis bush,claude cahun and clare rae.

I have recently attended the exhibitions of three highly influential artist whose works are all based from a political side of jersey landscape. However each artist presented such abstract and diverse conceptual thoughts and ideas different from each other and I want to analysis ,why, what and they have all successful connoted their political ideas throughout their work. Lewis bush is a curator and educator of British photography. His attention forms invisible power that influences and helps to operate the world, he is said to be ‘arbitrary and transparent’ his belief that power if problematic is clearly highlighted through account of his ‘politics in jersey’ exhibition. To my mind this exhibition was not to demonstrate one political ideal and being right and the other wrong ,nor was it to shine a negative amount of attention upon the reality of jersey being so absorbed within its finance sector. But it was an ability of self expression for the viewer to demonstrate their own personal views upon the project. This challenging the misconception held by many that every in jersey holds the same idea about the finance sector. And yet this project highlights the enormous variety of attitudes and opinions. Lewis’ intentions within his work was to document and portray a sense of reality or even perhaps ‘documentary photography’ approach to how the finance sector is truly like within Jersey. However Within his work it is clear he has manipulated many of the images, this separates the dependancy and the reality to which his work can be taken. I think it would be a hard assumption to belive all his work is a direct reflection of the sector due to the amount of people consumed within the industry, and how can one photographer tell a true reality of so many. 

Personally I believe his most influential work was the incorporation of crafted individuals and who their identities and similarly constructed and orchestrated to broadcast the same characteristic of someone who works in finance. I believe this allowed people to question their own identity and if they are who they are due to their passions or because they surround themselves within an industry which demands a certain presentation of character and being.  This self reflection of people is then contrasted within the different part of the community demonstrating what they believe finance is saying things such as ‘awful’ ‘freud’ ‘bullshit’. lewis said he had ‘ a great interest when distributing the cards’. This to me demonstrates bushs’ curiosity rather than and ambition to create a project on politics to inflict his own personal views as being the only right and correct view.

Consequently the matter of opinion is a personal biases of who has been exposed to the exhibition which is the younger generation. The majority of negativity shows how money is viewed as a sense of governmental oppression to many, and not a necessity to keep jersey going as this is the main source of income,I think this is fascinating. The rest of his photography is a clear demonstration of natural landscape of some a simplicity of final infrastructure. His work to me connotes a clear message of accumulations of infrastructure designed to further power final go. This set of images is vibrant within its colour and has a considerable influence from an architectural point of view. These aspects of modernisation show the current necessity and pressure put upon jersey to keep finance its main factor of income. The images themselves denote aspects of abstraction , their form is structured but very segregated to only focus on a small areas. This cropping shows small scenes of jerseys necessities. He then focused on ‘the direction point of looking into another finance sector or where lot of money is said to be held’ these series of locations is to present a different approach and address people not in jersey and how they appeal and recognise finance form where they are. Lewis said this will form a connection of international finance.  To me this is a clear demonstration of the structure  that is the primary support for the finance sector, it deals with a clear denotation of physicality of the buildings that hold most fo the money movement within jersey, this being within the airport and such. 

In comparison to lewis bush’s more conceptual and modern view of political landscapes, claude cahun and clare rae demonstrate a currently innovative way at the time to expose gender normative and through body composition express the way a person’s emotional stability is. Cahun was a pivotal point of photography in 1954. She successfully presented a conversation between two performative practices some 70 years apart. Her avant garde style and surrealistic body movements  formed a subversive self portrait photographs, that dealt with the representation of the female body when considering the demonstration of gender. Claude was a subservient and surreal artist who was at the very core of the surliest movement. Cahun was not the typical jersey citizen and still would still be classed within this frame, She was gay, living with her half sister, jewish and a activist who spoke out against the german revolution. Her politically engaged and charged strength allowed herself the capability to make this iconic pieces of work challenging gender stereotypes, which would of been hugely monumental at the time. I belive personally her influence on photography is massive and has enabled many to take up photography such as Claire Rae. 

What I believe is highly influential and successful about her work is her physical engagement with the physical and cultural landscapes. She showed repercussions of love and her work to this day still has not aged from the relevancy and beauty it holds. I believe her strongest piece lies within the influence of this piece:It demonstrates the way in which a woman’s body is cognitively hung in order to express a position of vulnerability. Her stature compressed into the small gap reduces herself to being small and weak. Her stance is stiff in the way that is she were to move she would fall and crumble. Perhaps this is similar to my themes of emotion being mimicked and found within nature. This work is hugely partial to how gender within women is seen as the weaker of the sexes. Although in time this was not a deliberate manner I do believe that the black and white tonal shades highlight and timelessness to the images and a beauty,It highlights the fact that the women too is as beautiful as the nature and too as free spirited. The way to which he work was displayed constitutes to a clear divide of work (Chaun on one side and Rae on the opposite), this indicative composition to my mind forms a political bias and serge between the times to which the photos were taken, The political influence being emphasised as both artists are highlighting the fragility of the female identity however one with and one without rights.   I personally belive Rae’s use of the past archival images to from as inspiration resonates with the threads and ideas stuck within the concept of surreal art being the revolving of art means nothing is ever permanent. Raes work was developed on film, this made he work become more accurate due to the extra expensive the film cost herself, this methodology leading to the instillations is powerful as it demonstrates another influence dependent of time and the incorporation of methods ignored by many photographers today.

The photographs Rae produced in Jersey are intimate. there is a clear exploration within the idea of self and the immediate environment and were she produced many collaboration with her partner. Her performative gestures and repercussions of a women body was so hugely  ahead of her time. She questioned the fluidity of genre and asked why this concept was such a defining factor of who we are. Cahun’s and Rae’s work speaks to me a-lot more than lewis, I think this is due to the way she has incorporated emotion and a relationship within the landscape and an understanding of jersey, where bush shows an observations of various opinions scattered together. Cahun has said ‘ I enact a visual dialogue between the body and these environments, and test how their photographic histories impact upon contemporary engagements. Cahun used self-portraiture to subvert the dominance of the male gaze in photographic depictions of the female body in the landscape’ This is clearly seen within the venerability of the positioning of the female models to almost rein-act what it was deemed to be a female back in the early 19th century.

Both exhibitions contrast on many strong levels and social impacts. they both use their divisive sources to produce such unique and unrelated work.In conclusion to my mind Clare Rae had a clear narrative and artistic influence from Claud Chaun, Because of this I think her work is so much more successful as she new exactly whats she was trying to connote through her work. The political landscape is shown through a loving atmosphere to highlight femininity and injustice  further emphasised  through the positing of the models. How as Lewis bush has such a wide range of a topic much of his work did not have cohesion and not as many literally studies of jersey itself. Although I do believe Lewis did connote jersey finance as being a pivotal part of the history and future of this island which is true and highly relevant to the population today

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Final political landscpaes theme: The sublime, reality and surrealism to evoke emotion.

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The sublime, reality and surrealism to evoke emotion.

After reconsidering what would be most effective for my shoot I decided it  would be effective if I were to decided a more clear narrative and narrow all my ideas into one plausible theme which would successfully be made into the  final  presentation of a book. So after much deliberation I have recognised that the sublime will be my main point of interest. The sublime and how it links to deep emotions of fear and pleasure and how this in turn creates a conceptual narrative. This means When taking my photos I will do so with the intentions of creating conceptual art that does not have a linear narrative to the end, but purposes the same constant idea expressed throughout abstract and surrealism shoots in order to capture and represent the sublime. These conceptual images from a narrative of emotion, because of this i have decided It would be effective for me to do more bodily photoshoot of hands and forms capturing peoples emotions and even doing so capturing the emotions of the sea and such through the power they contain, I do not want to make this project about the emotions that i have as i do not feel this would be worthy of me doing so as I do not have any deep passions of pain. However I do think will still be able to capture a personal emotion through the people choose to take photos of.  The sublime also has a clear connection to that of politics and the overruling theme of political landscapes throughout the deep past and structure of it being formed on the basis of romanticism. romanticism is based of a power and love within a landscape and how people idealised the movement and love that they hold for a section of land.

My first shoots of experimenting with the sublime, will be spoken about more in my next piece but originally will focus on the water and the notion of being trapped and essence of beauty within the water but the threat of death due to the hanging of being submerged in water and not being able to breath.I believe the most important value to these images will be the incorporation of emotional value within them.  Due to my images not having the strongest lineal narrative motion there needs to be a strong contextual factor to each and every image chosen, due of this the emotional side is of great importance. I will capture this my the bodily form, colour and the concentration of what is their surrounding and how this also effects the image to being more sublime. I believe the distorted narrative of the conceptual of emotion allow myself to Pieces together the project and from the reflection of what i wish the audience to feel. As the emotion is not a personal reflection fo what I am feeling I can create  and piece together an expansion of a story throughout all of my work. I really think it is of great importance to start going deeper and taking more challenging and complex imagery and this will really incorporate the sublime itself. I believe a new large interest will be how emotion can and should be evoked through colour and how I can further contextualise my images through this.To do so in a more interesting manner i will take photos within and outside a studio. To further this ideal I believe the sublime does not always need a person within it in order to cause an effective, so more of my images from now on will be without the presence of a model, or just not in the picture itself. Artists I will further look into consist of mack and Torbjorn, hopefully their influence will allow myself to be more creative when coming to my following shoots.

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Political landscape shoot ideas and intentions

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I intent to do 8 shoots over the next 5 weeks.These ides are all still based along that of emotion based on political bias but still under the influence of reality and creative thinking aimed towards surrealism. All of my shoot will be on location and will need the help of a model and or objects to help influence in the images.

1.My first shoot will be my manifesto shoot, I have previously spoken about the shoot itself so will not go into much detail, however I would like to repeat that I am starting with a vibrant creative shoot to highlight the power of the surreal mind.

2. this second shoot will take place either within a pool or in the sea (wherever someone can be submerged in water). To my mind the sublime is purely the reality of fate being taken away with beauty and fear. To me water is a great example of this. I want to show the physicality and motion fo someone within the water and also the way in which the shapes are so abstract and show such effortless beauty. However I also wish to show underwater shots, although I do not know the possibility of this happening as my camera does not have the ability to take photos such as this.

I have chosen one of my first shoots to either take place in a river or a poll. I have chosen this as I have previously spoken about the sublime, And i do believe water and the effect of this has such a . huge effect of peoples emotions and  a sense of power and conflict within the life and death of a person.

3. My third shoot I believe I will try and experiment within the human anatomy and bodily from combined with the effects of colour. This will be done with taking still shots of arms bend out and faces in order to show an emotion and a sensual and sensitive side to themselves. This includes the body forming an overall defining shape in order to express how they are feeling or to express my theme of reality through the small lines, crevices and imperfections every has within their face. I would intend to make like look inhuman and also close up it does not have a defining human influence.

4. My fourth shoot will be concentrating of the discovery and the effect of how nature and the natural landscape can be sublime. I believe this will entail  and taking more beautiful and breathtaking captures and being creative with naturally what I am given. I also want to concentrate on nature and plant and the beauty yet power in which they hold and control over themselves and the environment around them. For this shoot I want to combine the art of using fire into the passion and such of my piece itself, to do so I will both take sublime images of the fire and then also combine them with the way how I will also be able to add elements of romanticism throughout all of these landscapes and natural beauty within landscape.

5. collage of abstract images, I was inspired to do this by Tim walker. I believe a collage contains memories that have much significance to us personally and you could even say some have a sublime effect to us. I believe that the concepts of reality seen within a collage is interesting as we do not know what the vent and scenario of the photos  themselves were. I believe that conceptual a collage is interesting and depending on the way in which you physically fro the images themselves they can successful convey even a surreal undertones to the composition as a whole. With the collages I could form a personal responses of myself and others yet also, discover and start an enquiry of the romanticism landscapes and how these are formed and how I could collages old romanticised images of art together.

6.Fashion shoot, tablo style, For this I was again inspired but he more surreal feel in how you’re physically able to create a sublime effect through a surreal sense of altered reality. As I am not focusing on a narrative but a relative feeling of emotions from each clip, this will still be able to convey emotion through the constructed composition, I think fashion is such a clear definition of who we are and want to be as people and is very different and meaningful to each and everyone of us. Additionally politically what we wear has an illusion of our social class and the political influences themselves.

7.Mystery, For this shoot I want to take images that have a quality which is not of the feeling and presence it give off itself, this could be seen within many things such  as a landscape and or a person found living within the landscape or scenario itself. I want to connote how the feelings and presence of people can be shows though their surroundings and belongings, however we will not know the person even due to the direct connections making the photos mysterious or wanting to know more.

8.For this final shoot I  want to further investigate one of the previous shoot perhaps changing aspects that I think will create a more successful images or even more so with the intentions to demonstrate a different emotion altogether. I belive with all fo these photoshoots plus additional experimentation and editing these shoot should combine my themes of the sublime, reality and surrealism very well throughout and hopefully will successfully combine to create the a narrative of conceptual emotions in a successful and inventive mannerism.

 

 

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Planning For my manifesto

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How I am planning on developing my work:My originally purpose and shoots I have already experimented with is recreating an emotion based off their political views of a location onto that landscape and mimic the emotions of the people. I believe if I created an emotional based intrigue this would both tick the box for being inspired by surrealism attitudes as most of this is a personal belief and attitude ones self and Also the reality as to what is real and everyones emotions to a political event and or a political statement will cause a different reaction of emotions. The two artists I have looked both show a narrative but in two different ways, one of which shows a clear construct of a emotion of pain and the other shows a narrative of beauty within you surrounding and using the project to form around yourself. I think I should combine this as use the whole of my scenarios in order to plant people into different areas and change my idea slightly to peoples emotions being dependent on the cultivation of where they are. So being happy and feeling beauty in an scenario such as Rita and heartbreak with sad messages covering themselves such as Calle. I believe if I communicate my shoot through a variation of abstract light colour and ideas and really make an interesting landscape it will be more fascinating to look at. However I could still capture objects too to tell a story. I want a clear intrigue of beauty through my images and wish to connote this. I Will too make a video, I want to show a narrative if a persons life being within these different locations and emotions and exhibit them for further emotions too. As for my work I have previously researched and looked at surrealism, studying artists such as Sophie Calle and and Pipilotti Rist. I want my manifesto to have a strong spirit to it, i want my images to have the same positive energy and abstract sense of surrealism as Rist and yet the same dynamic method of narrative throughout the storytelling of my conceptual manifesto such as the work of Calle.

ideas: I would want my shoot to have a creative surrealism narrative of projections and exhibited videos which I have taken around jersey with the locations and landscapes causing different reactions and defects to each person. I will then choose people to come into the exhibition and then allow themselves to be part of the art itself and see how they overall feel about it themselves. I want all of my work to be so overall expressive it becomes abstract within its story. I will use words, images, objects and the lighting to produce my own political environment to cause emotion and allow people themselves to be inserted into it. The narrative I wish to show is the way in which. I think I will too experiment more within direct observations of surrealism, such as a physical reenactment of the creativity found within a landscape. such a barbey. I again will do this is a really creatively expressive abstract from and in order to connote the same themes of emotion based on political right, which have been caused due to a landscape. This could be a literally physical impression of what I believe them to feel so peeling back their face to a dis-functioning landscape which is falling down etc…

Themes:The overall themes of my work will be surrounding that of, i know I want my manifesto to be creative. It demands to be creative and felt due to me knowing what want for my final end. I want the emotion to be evident not only in the person but the landscape itself. my mind map of inspiration if below as i think starting with wanting to express these similar artists themes would be a good area to begin.

relation to political landscape: The relation with political landscapes is pretty evident, the emotion is not only caused by politics but shows a reaction to a landscape which they the person has a connection with. Not only this but I can allow myself to use my experimentation with reality, cause and dependancy to allow myself to add stronger themes of surrealism into my work. I think the combination of conceptual though, surrealism, reality and the landscape itself can combine to look this one theme to produce so many outcomes distributing in factors of abstraction and narrative story telling. I think my manifesto needs to be able to express all these emotions and  notes of creativity as this is how my project will become successful. I first want to start by brainstorming my ideas, This from being the angle of my work I want to show. I have decided when thinking about surrealism I believe surrealistic work is fascinating. I love the colour and creativity. I just want my work to have something unique.

 

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Analysis of Surrealism artwork

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This piece of work was done by the artist ‘Salvador Dali’ his work meant to question that beyond logic and reason.  He has always been fascinated by the camera and used photography in order to create aesthetics. he concluded through his work that nothing will prove surrealism right as much as photography.  surrealism is such a game changing art movement in photography. you are able to see the motivation and imagination behind this image, his inspiration fro many of his works and possible influence for this image was the first works war and so many of his works had an anti war slant. Many of the inspirations for surrealism came from the dada, as this is where cubism and expressionism are formed.  This part of the piece has a formation of intuitive art that works within the mixed media often trying to create  a joining of his renowned psychological connotations to my mind this image clearly is a discovery of the subconscious in order to present an idealism for superior reality. When discussing the manifesto of surrealism it allowed Dali to reality flash’s out his work and incorporate new concepts of movement.  This work prevued the classical art anthesis and creates the principles of imitation and realness within actual objects. This can be seen within the image through many often objects being in the air and capturing the stunned movement of the water flying throughout.  The pure physic automatism purposes the manner of the real functioning objects throughout, and this subsides to form an absence of all control exercise by reason. This image to my mind forms a superior reality of certain forms previously neglected in the omnipotence of a dream. I believe their is an effort within this image to from creative powers of the unconscious and path the territory of dreams ,chance and chaos. Many fo these themes come under the influence  of my project on reality and also wanting to show an emotion within the reaction and movement of ht objects itself. Conceptually this image is very planned out in a  Tablo manner. It looks although there is a literal orchestrator forming the composition fo the piece itself. The rawest and unhindered mind is found within boundless sensations of this image, the personality of the cats moving, the energy to which the image holds and the scattered composition to look as though to is still in full swing and moving, the more you look within this image the more you are able to see. This image is a clear representation of the trend of floating subjects, defiance of science and repetition. it sis said that  “A very common Surrealist technique is the juxtaposition of objects that would typically not be together in a certain situation or together at all. This has been described as “beautiful as the encounter of an umbrella and a sewing-machine on a dissecting table”  this juxtaposition conveys a metaphor to the image and the conceptual allow each viewer to analysis the image in what they think means to themselves.

This image above was composed by Thomas Barbey. Barbey was not only a photographer but would reference to himself as being a photo collage artist. This image clearly has an unlimited imagination and combines widely disparate imagery into a seamlessly beautiful piece. The combination of three different locations  to put together this composition is beyond me. Surprisingly all of his works are made through classic photographic techniques and using no computer.  I believe this collage is highly fascinating he has said that “The montages are created by carefully choosing printing procedures, such as combination printing; sandwiching negatives together, thereby printing them simultaneously; pre-planned double exposure in the camera; the re-photographing of collaged photographs; or a combination of the above.” this image itself is called ‘self exposed’ it shows a women that is lifting her face like a curtain and revealing an image of a city. This concept of how people only real certain parts of themselves in certain situations is fascinating and the image says this all perfectly. The consideration of keeping parts of oneself is a mystery is not necessarily a bad thing and allowing once self to discover one slowly makes a relationship more interesting.  surrealism is a gift and an ability to create a flawless scene out of different images is breath taking. Barbéy’s surrealistic manipulations are not only works of retouching and airbrushing – he also sticks the negatives together, photographs them, uses other techniques to reach the concept vision he had in his mind first – but few are able to resist the gripping illusion. Overall for my project I think I can successful link in people tearing away a part of themselves and showing an emotion for the environment in which they grew up. I think this also accompanies by alternate reality aspect of my work and i think this will really help me to produce images accessing surrealism themes.

Surrealism it still one of the remaining strong influences of photography and within the contemporary arts scene. It Is said that “The influence of Surrealism as a style of art can be found in a wide variety of modern and contemporary schools – notably, early Abstract Expressionism, Pop-Art and Conceptualism – and permeated nearly all contemporary art forms, including Assemblage, Installation and Performance.” I believe I can relate this to my own manifesto by encouraging the same beliefs of what these two artists achieved throughout their own work. Additionally I think there is a clear contextual link to these image and the of political landscapes. The sense fo emotion throughout the use of positioning and objects used in order to create a feeling is evident and purposes the question what is reality when faced with pain and abstract emotions.

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Future of St. Helier newspaper and instillation

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Future of St Helier

Your final images/ design – choose from folders here
Then write your own evaluation / experience of  being part of  the newspaper and hoarding installation etc.

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Hoarding Installation

The unveiling of the Future of St Helier Hoarding at the International Finance Centre on the Esplanade in St Helier took place on Thursday 13 Dec 2018.

First published as a 52 page newspaper supplement in September by the Jersey Evening Post the work produced by A-Level Photography students at Hautlieu School have been transformed into a 34m outdoor installation as part of Masterplan Community Arts and Education Project

We were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects.

We thank all sponsors and collaborators for making this a successful contribution to the island’s cultural records and historic archives Jersey Development Company, Camerons Ltd, MJP Architects, Archisle, Lewis Bush, Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise, Kevin Pilley, States of Jersey and Connétable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft

Earlier today we unveiled the Masterplan Future of St Helier hoarding display at the International Finance Centre. Lots of local media interest from Jersey Evening Post, ITV Channel TV and BBC Jersey who broadcasted live on radio talking to photography students at Hautlieu School, Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft and sponsors Jersey Development Company, Camerons Ltd, MJP Architects about the future of the island and its capital. An excellent example of how a community arts and education project can generate a debate that affects all those who either live, work or visit St Helier.

If you are interested in our views of young people tune into BBC Radio here (listen from 3:18:30 onwards or watch the six o’clock news tonight on ITV.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06rlpdw

If you missed the news last night at ITV Channel TV you can catch up here with Hautlieu students talking (15m.12s) about their images on display at the Masterplan Future of St Helier hoarding on the International Finance Centre.

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The outdoor installation on the hoarding around the construction site is a great way to engage the public in art and debates concerning the future of the island’s capital but, what we need in Jersey is a new contemporary art space that will provide a new venue to showcase art produced in the island, but equally also bring international art to Jersey for the public enjoyment of its residents and visitors alike.

The recent Culture, Arts and Heritage Strategic Review, commissioned by the Government of Jersey makes 20 new recommendations that will revitalise the island’s cultural infrastructure and achieve a wide range of social and economic objectives from tourism, to health and well being to external relations, to planning and environmental developments – in the hope that in partnership with Government it will enrich and enhance Jersey’s quality of life.

Let’s hope those in power who can make real changes to St Helier’s build environment will include such a new art space in the revised Masterplan of the Waterfront. All we need is political will and re-prioritising public funding for the arts. States of Jersey

Future of St Helier Newspaper

The outcome of students work was first published on Tuesday 18 September 2018 as a 52 page newspaper supplement, Future of St Helier that was printed in 14,000 copies and inserted into a daily edition of the Jersey Evening Post and distributed island wide.

Here is a video browser of our Future of St Helier supplement printed and distributed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post. Hautlieu photography students were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects. Each student designed a page spread which was then split in half producing a fragmented image reflecting on the nature of experience and diversity of St Helier.

Here is a video browser of our Future of St Helier supplement printed and distributed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post. Hautlieu photography students were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects. Each student designed a page spread which was then split in half producing a fragmented image reflecting on the nature of experience and diversity of St Helier. Make sure to get your copy before the shops close!Thanks to everyone involved in the creative process Archisle Lewis Bush, Jamie Cole, Simon Crowcroft, Kevin Pilley – States of Jersey and our sponsors Jersey Development Company and Camerons Limited.

Posted by Martin Toft on Tuesday, 18 September 2018

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My Manifesto, of the creative and surreal mind.

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5-10 manifesto rules inspired by surrealism.
  1. To convey a clear methodology of abstract, creative and surreal qualities of a dreamatic identity.
  2. Free one’s mind from the past and from everyday reality to arrive at truths one has never known.
  3. liberate one’s psyche from traditional education, feel an empowerment through the creative mind rather than analytical.
  4. Do not stifle your imagination, break down tradition and become the create space around yourself.
  5. Become an explorer of your own narrative, become who you are and who you aspire to be.
  6. Do not hide your emotions but express them in passion. Do not be silenced by the government but uplift your own political power.
  7. Be unique through your past, your truth, your dreams and express this is such a way to uplift other and not as a example of bitterness towards them.
  8. Evoke a consciousness from those in power, use a voice of positivity for change to better the future.
  9. Be expressive not only through yourself but the environment, view the world as something to composed and to create beauty for others.
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Anylsis: Manifesto on surrealism: Artist:2 ,Sophie Calle

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Sophie Calle  was Born in 1953 in Paris, Sophie Calle is a French artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. she would describe herself as a conceptual artist,photoghroher and movie director and sometimes goes as far to say she is a detective. She has developed a practice that is instantly recognisable. Calle’s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo.  Her distinct narrative and frequent combination of images wihtin a text. exhibit of her projects she uses in order to capture a chapter of system references and is said to ‘echoes where Calle often blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life.’ Since the 70’s she has merged in the unveiling of what is reality and her own controlled chance of reality how allocated reality is to herself.  Her deceptions of human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy recognises the ability to investigate in private lives.She now teaches as professor of ilm and photography in Switzerland and has lectured in many schools across the state.

Calle’s views the ending of a suffering relationship a point of glee and unconfined positivity. The worse the break up the better the art, through experiencing pain you allow yourself to start calculating how best to exploit it. she has a Frame of work called Exquisite Pain, it contains a period of images and grief experienced over many years. She wanted to point out how she associated every bad relationship with the society around her and the way in which the untouched box was her tough harsh memories or the relationship and when she was ready to deal with it she exploited her harmful past thoughts into art.Her work contains love letters, air tickets and remembered conversations from her and her past relationships, her work shows an evolution taking the observer through 92 days leading up to her being abandonment and then the recovery after the break-up itself. she took a physical trip in order to show the physicality of leaving her boyfriend behind. she made complicated relationships of where to travel. This was relevant as she was left for someone else while he was away on holiday. She wants to portray her methods of getting over ‘shock’ by recounting her misery with everyone she meets, and how this emotion gradually diminishes. the words seen over herself in the above image are from the all the taped words of the gloomy and outpouring relationships she had with friends and strangers. It was said. ‘For the Paris exhibition on which the book is based, she had the texts embroidered on to large wall hangings, which were placed next to her photographs and her assorted bits of break-up memorabilia (images of the clothes she was wearing on that day, the red telephone he called her on to say she was no longer the one’

I believe I can use her influences of her work through the way she conceptual words to be formed into images of herself, her reality it her pain and yet how she exploits it to others in order to get feedback fo her situation. I think this is fascinating as you get opinions of yourself from strangers. This to me shows her aims of surrealism as this is a clearly coal from of feeling projected to the physicality of someone themselves.

Her work links to surrealism through the disposition of of objects feelings and people. Her main purpose is the way in which people feel emotions between people. I find it interesting how she started through the aim of using tapes to then link to more abstract thoughts of using objects to link to the history and past of people. this from of reality,politics and her main manifesto inspiration of surrealism really contributes to making such simplicity yet beauty In the new contemporary arts. Within this set of images she want sot relate objects to people and form a sense of identity through this. This to me has an almost typological reference to it. The images convey the personality of a person yet without showing who they are directly themselves. Although her worksheet would not say is done in order to signify a suggestion of self help, it does through the narrative create a less hysterical and more detached as the weeks pass is a soothing demonstration of how misery fades. Her stories of how stories of peoples distress are captivating and beautifully shown through the writing written across themselves.The project from being merely contrived and pretentious, or an exercise in self-indulgence. She has said that “Anybody who stopped to ask me why I was crying, I would tell them,” she says. “My friends were all asking about the exotic trip that I had been on, but all I wanted to talk about was the end of my relationship. Sometimes I would be crying alone in a bar and someone would ask me what was wrong, and I’d explain to them, and I’d get talking.” her work has such a clear narrative yet still has access to so many relevant and successful themes throughout. I will definitely experiment within hertechniwues of using text, tapes and possible objects in order to connote a feeling and story that has happened to a person. The could be further indulged to me possible using a family member. Her aspect of reality is also connected to my work already and I think this is relevant as it allows myself to bend the truth as no ones reality is similar.

when comparing the artists her work has such a strong juxtaposition to my previous artist Rits, as her work is not meant to be seen as a romanticism of the world we live in and echoed as a dream, but a subsided from the reality of words covering us and explaining what our identity is said to be. Both artists however use the use of projections throughout their work, both be it is completely different styles and circumstances but both in order to connote a story wether that is just beauty or an emotional narrative such as Calle. I think he combination of these two very separate artists will result in an interesting manifesto which will then lead me to a interesting shoot.

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Anylsis: Manifesto on surrealism: Artist:Pipilotti Rist

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Pipilotti Rist

Is a visual artists. she is best known for creating experimental video art and installations of art often in order to portray self portraits and singing. Her work is described to be surreal and intimate as having preoccupations with the female body and a combined dysmorphia of forged abstract art. Her artwork is often categorized as feminist art. In a 2011 Guardian exhibition review article, Rist describes her feminism: “Politically,” she says, “I am a feminist, but personally, I am not. For me, the image of a woman in my art does not stand just for women: she stands for all humans. I hope a young guy can take just as much from my art as any woman.Rist first gained international attention following her selection for the influential Aperto’93, an exhibition curated by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi for Achille Bonito Oliva’s 1993 Venice Biennale. Her early projection works emerged from her studies in audiovisual design in Basel, which in turn had led to animated cartoons and stage sets for music videos, made in tandem with her career as the drummer with the all-girl band called Les Reines Prochaines (The Next Queens).

In 2009 Risk made a speech about why she think surrealism is so important and this is what she had to say: She believes many people are artists dn cultural people and asks why we repreadtly creates art and ewwhy use so much effort to from a. Cultural piece of art?? She is convinced arts task is to contribute to evolution  art has to ,.. the head…art has to encourage the mind art has to garuntee a detaches view of social changes. Art has to conjure up positive energy art has to create sensuousness, ears eyes and feelings. And it should make us feel better art has to reconcile reason and insctint. We are has human or made we are also animals.To reconcile our ethics with our instincts art has to reasearchnewe possibilities and most importantly art has to destroy cliche and prejudices.I believe Her work links so well into investigating the surrealism manifestos as she uses her art to portray a dream. Her work struck to me with any doubt such creativity and boundless imagination fo the mind.Her work inspired through the light and sense, her work is not defined by limits she sets herself to.She is never concerned with where it will take her but living as she does not know where she will end up through her work. She wants to inspire, and I do believe her work successful conveys this.

To me this work named ;pixel forest’ is they most comprehensive presentation of lists work to date. Her work includes influence spanning over the artists entire career,using inspirations from her early single channel videos of the 1980’s, exploring the human female body in pop culture to the expansion of video instillations. Her work transoms just a space into a architectural demonstration of masses of dreamlike environments which emphasis a hypnotic musical scores. she has created a new instillation for this exhibition in order to reveal connections between development of her art to the evolution of technology. I believe this such of nature,nuture and new found technology in order o create a surrealism dream life state in unlike anything else and is a huge movement for contemporary arts. it is said to be’ Ranging from the television monitor to the cinema screen, and from the intimacy of the smartphone to the communal experience of immersive images and soundscapes, this survey charts the ways in which Rist’s work fuses the biological with the electronic in the ecstasy of communication.’

these videos are captured and filmed in such a way to be a piece of art, they evoke such beauty ,passion and colour it combines the life of a daydreamer of surrealism combines with the aspirations of living stye hold to be so true. Her focus being that of video/audio instillations, she does this because there is a room in them for everything  (painting, technology, language, music, movement, flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitions of death, sex and friendliness) to her art is something we have to contribute tot should be seen as a task in order for it to evolve.  Art should encourage the mind to change social perseptions and garunetee a detached view of social changes. Her work should allow yourself to conjure up positive engery in order to create a sensuousness, in order to reconcile a reason of instinct. She wishes to destroy oredujice throughout her work and cliches. This is what I love about her work. This is what I find successful about her style. she uses the surrealism as a sense of escapism through her art form, allowing the manifesto to be freedom through her work. Because of this her art has been widely exhibited at international museums and festivals, all over the world. this lush seductive imagery employs the idiom of commercial advertising and music videos in order to create such abstract art in her own individual artistic language which is informed by her past experiences. Due to her use to being in a music group music has such a strong influence upon her work, the abstract from of sense from shapes of vibrations to which she can make art with. Her work is extended beyond boundaries of the normal monitor incorporated video into an architectural exhibition through th eproejction of space. She uses all her surroundings and space in order influence and help emphasis her work to be more successful. Since her exbitiohns she has become known for producing immersive instillations which she has done with the intentions to create a transformative experience for viewers with fluid and hypnotic imagery. This often uses her inspiration of nature and also a fundamental use of technology. She is unwise in the way to which she views the beauty in nature yet values the progression of technology and uses so to enhance her Art form. Some of her work even goes so far to place the audience wihtin the screen itself, surrounded by thousands of lights.

 

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research: Comparison of manifesto, animal farm and surrealism Andre Breton

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what is a manifesto? a manifesto is. verbal declaration of intentions, motives,views and issuer, this could be seen within creativity making  a creative video of art, or either a political party and a governmental movement. It is derived from the meaning of clear and conspicuous. This to my mind means my manifesto has to have clear cut conventions and portray a clear and genuine state of mind. There are many art movements that contextually produces a variety of opinions and aims.

political manifesto: The political manifesto that I have researched into is ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell’ Animal farm is a paradigm-changing novel written by the democratic socialist and observer writer George Orwell is a satire aimed at undermining Stalin and, as crucially, the admiration in which he was held by many in the British intelligentsia. The story is led by two pigs napoleon and snowball, they have the intentions to take over major farm with the act of revolution in order to run so in a new name of equality. Napolean is seen to drive away Snowball and strive through abandoning their previous pans of social improvement. He starts to work other animals to dust and is soon seen to be a direct carbon copy of that of the farmer. The key phrase of the book is when it is displaced that “all animals are equal” , “but some are more equal than others” . This story It highlights the morals of byword for how Stalinism worked and was practised. And due to this manifesto it snuffed the political chances of the British communist party of being a large political force.

It is interesting because although animal farm was not written in the form of a normal political manifesto,but a novella short story. Yet it was still written in order to compare the ideals expressed in the novellas compared with the fundamentals of communist manifesto written by Karl Marx. The story reflects a period during Stalin era in Russia. Many of marx’s ideas can be found in Orwells character, this is because Orwell had an influence wihtin Marx’s text. Karl Marxs manifesto Is said to be ‘worlds most influential political manifesto ever created’. this has been said as it argues:the lower classes are under pressure of their owners and that the lower class can be able to achieve their goals to overcome their problems by the formation of unions or riots. It also states the capitalism should be overthrown because communision is the only way for equality among the people. In the third section of the Communist Manifesto, “Socialist and Communist Literature,” the authors discuss the differences of communism and other socioeconomic systems. In their conclusion, “Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Opposition Parties,”The Communist Manifesto is divided into a preamble and four sections.  the main issues wihtin the manifesto was: In capitalism, the industrial working class, or proletariat, engage in class struggle against the owners of the means of production, the bourgaeaie As before, this struggle will end in a revolution that restructures society, or the “common ruin of the contending classes” HIs views on political issues to summerssise where how if poor pope;le keep being treated and overpower by the corrupt and Conservative party,they will rebell in order to abolish the class system. he believed the idea of equality and founded Communism,yet his theories were seen distorted by those in high class powers making no real change to those who needed it.

now the comparison of animal farm and Karls manifesto is evident. and clear seen below:

RUSSIAN   REVOLUTION 

1) Oppressed by the Russian Empire before the Russian Revolution
2) Karl Marx was widely recognized by his knowledge and philosophies3) Marx wrote the “Communist Manifesto” which recorded his principals and theories of abolishing the class system.
4) Marx’s “Communist Manifest” is convinced to be what Communism is based on. The idea of equality motivated Stalin and Lenin to start the Russian Revolution, which overpowered the Russian Empire.
5) However Karl Marx did not live to see the Russian Revolution that took place in 1917. He was then buried in Highgate Cemetery, North London. 
6) After the Russian Revolution, Karl Marx’s theories were distorted by Stalin, the Soviet dictator. He manipulated the people of the Soviet Union with violence and cruelty. 

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ANIMAL FARM

1) Oppressed by Mr Jones before the rebellion of the animals on Maor Farm
2) Old Major was a ‘highly respected’ boar by all the animals in the farm. 
3) Old Major expressed his initial idea  for all animals to rule and live freely through his speech in the ‘big barn’ 
4) Animalism convinced the animals that they are being oppressed by humans, and roared with their “wildest excitement”  Major’s speech then inspired Snowball and Napoleon to initiate the rebellion against Mr Jones.
5) Old Major died ‘three nights later’  without having the chance to witness the animal’s revolution. The animals buried his body at ‘the foot of the orchard’
6) After the animal’s revolution against Mr Jones, Napoleon took charge of the Animal Farm. He abandoned the initial ideas that Old Major proposed, and corrupt the principles of Animalism. 

Now this was the most influential political manifesto ever to be created, yet was still abolished and twisted due to governmental powers guaranteeing a set of rules and yet not being compliant. This to me purposes the overall ideal that political manifestos are what the people want to be done yet are not taken into action. I believe when comparing to my more creative art manifesto this will be the large difference; that being the outcome and if the manifesto becomes a reality.

artistic manifesto: As I myself view art as my passion dn would hope to see a future career wihtin it, I personally believe artistic manifestos should be held to the same level of important as those of political manifestos. When researching two features of contextual art movements instantly stood out and these were, surrealism and futurism.The manifesto of surrealism is was written in 1924 by Andre Breton, and comatained 5 main aims and contextual ideas wihtin so. This consisted of:

  • how  not to be bored in company
  • how to make speeches
  • how to write false novels
  • how to catch the eye of a woman on the street
  • against death

He believed that belief in life is the most precious aspect of life itself, by which is meant for real life. He lived people were inveterate dreamers who were disconnected by operating of fate and how no matter his efforts he has been consented to labour. he images surrealism  to be a man who ‘remains in this respect a new-born babe, and as for the consent of his moral conscience, I admit that he does very well without it. If he retains any degree of lucidity, he can do no more than turn to his childhood, which ruined as it has been by his teachers’ pains, seems to him nonetheless full of charm.’Breton is said to say’ Dear imagination, what I love most about you, is your unforgiving nature.’

this artist has four main reasons to which he operates and why he created his manifesto, 1, within the bounds in which they operate dreams continuously show a sign of order. Memory arrogates and it is important to ignore these transitions. We must have many dreams, a series of dreams and represent ourselves through a dream itself. Secondly being awake should be considered a phenomenon. Not one  he has said’Not only does the mind display, in this state, a strange tendency towards disorientation (a tale of lapses and errors of all sorts the secret of which is beginning to be revealed) but what is more it seems that when the mind is functioning normally it does no more than respond to suggestions which come to it from the depths of that night to which I commend it.’ Thirdly, our spirit of those who dreams is content with that which happens to him. you need to live, fly and love to your herts content. If you die you do not know what will happen,re you certain to wake among the dead? we haven name we should be led. And lastly if someone fails it is because they have led to accept an impoverished idea of expiation. mystery and moment should be in san and make a future resolution. ]The artists then makes many poems about his work which I will further look into with future analysis.

comparison:

The differences to me between a political and artist manifesto is the way in which the intentions are written and carried about, On the political side they are said to point out injustice and make a claim to help change and create a new world. Whereas art is an exploration of who we all are,Not just negative but who we want to be and how we should go about doing so. It is written more so as a conceptual brainstorm of our imagination of the people who we would like to see ourselves as. To my mind, art is about changing yourself and not the opinions of others around yours to me I feel is less corrupt and more likely be be accomplished, rather than the broken promises of the political manifestos. However I will still in a similar way to those of political manifesto ideals but I will carry on the surrealism promises that I have been previously discussing.