Paul Lindsay | Gluttony & Factory Pig Farm This week's task is to research a group exhibition that I think my work could fit into, consider the curatorial intent of the exhibition and reasoning why my work could be included. The 2015 'Meat' exhibition held at the Global Group 3000 gallery in Berlin is the … Continue reading Week 10 Enter the Academy
LO3: Critical Contextualization of Practice
Wim Delvoye – Pigs
Wim Delvoye is no stranger to controversial artworks, and his tattooed pigs are no exception. When he started tattooing pigs in 1997, setting up a farm outside of Beijing to avoid any regulatory hassles, he was criticized in the art-world. There is a certain hypocrisy here in that it's ok to factory farm pigs for … Continue reading Wim Delvoye – Pigs
Week 9 – Critical Review of Practice
This was a very useful exercise in both receiving and providing feedback, although it took a lot of time and week 8 study still needs some catching up. This was a further opportunity to have more eyes on my work to date and to see whether it is developing in line with intentions. Some issues … Continue reading Week 9 – Critical Review of Practice
Week 8 – Responses & Responsibilities
Vietnam, Philip Jones Griffiths, 1967 This week's topic is one of the first that touches on some of the issues I have been thinking about in my work. With newsfeeds and social media pumping out an almost endless stream of what many would consider shocking material it is difficult to sift out those images that … Continue reading Week 8 – Responses & Responsibilities
Week 7 – A sea of images
This week the National Geographic magazine was a central topic which generated quite some varied dialog. I can recall my grandfather having an enormous collection of NG that must have gone back decades. I spent countless hours leafing through them, taking in all the strange and exotic people and places. I certainly did not at … Continue reading Week 7 – A sea of images
Week 5 – Gazing at photographs
Merry Alperns project 'Dirty Windows' and her voyeuristic vigil perched just out of sight above a toilet window from a sex club raises a multitude of questions on the gaze and where are the limits, if there are any limits at all on intruding on others. The grainy black and white shots capture personal moments … Continue reading Week 5 – Gazing at photographs
Week 3 – False Indexes
The concept of hunters and farmers made me think about how I come up with ideas and to what extent they lean towards constructed or simply capturing moments as they occur. Within the context of my current work it's a bit of both, I have to go out and search for the base images I … Continue reading Week 3 – False Indexes
Week 3 – Constructed Realities
Photographer and video artist Miwa Yanagi is known for staging elaborate shoots while her work focuses on stereotypes of Japanese women in contemporary society. Elevator Girl is one of her best known projects and depicts the female staff that operate the elevators in department stores. I don't think I would go to this level of … Continue reading Week 3 – Constructed Realities
Week 2 – The index and the icon
Although much is written on what does or does not make a photograph authentic, it is by no means a settled question. Snyder posits 'If our vision worked like photography, then we would see things as a camera does.' (Snyder and Allen 1975, p. 152) This implies that there must always be some element of … Continue reading Week 2 – The index and the icon
Encoding/decoding and context
Context and re-contextualizing, redirecting the narrative, provoking a response other than intended. In the forum discussion it was suggested I consider accompanying notes or captions for my work and using them to lead the viewer into the image to explain the concept and meaning. I am in two minds on this and how to go … Continue reading Encoding/decoding and context
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