P2 FILMING AS PUBLIC ACTION (STUDIO II)

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FILMING AS A PUBLIC ACTION AD1.1 // ARCS449

TUTORS:

MOHAMAD HAFEDA ANNA PEPE ANN STEWART

CONTENTS

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R E S E A R C H O N A R T I S T ' S W O R K

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R E A S E A R C H O N A R T I S T ' S A C T I O N

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S K E T C H S I T E

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S I T E P H O T O G R A P H I C C O L L A G E

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A C T I O N

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P H O T O G R A P H I C D O C U M E N T O F T H E F I L M

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DAVID HOCKNEY "CUBISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY" David Hockney explored the use of the camera, making composite images of Polaroid photographs arranged in a rectangular grid. Later he used regular 35millimetre prints to create photo collages, compiling a ‘complete’ picture from a series of individually photographed details.

The main obstacle Hockney thinks he has overcome is the limited perspective of a stationary camera. A single photograph can only show one point of view, usually for a small period of time. “All photographs share the same flaw,” he says.

“Lack of time.” He then goes on to trace photography’s misguided view back hundreds of years to the Renaissance and invention of the Camera Obscura.

Cubism helped to topple the single perspective in the hand-arts, but with photography it still exists. The idea behind Hockney’s grids was to inject multiple reference points into photography, in short to make it cubist.

-Nicholas Wilder Studying Picasso,1982-

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DADA UNDERSTANDING DADAISM Dada or Dadaism was a form of artistic disorder born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time. It embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics. Dada was not so much a style of art like Cubism or Fauvism it was more a protest movement with a public declaration ( Or revolution ).

BERLIN DADA -Gorge Grosz ,1893-1959 and John Heartfield ,1891-1968-

The formation of dadaism began during World War I. Many artists, writers and intellectuals who were opposed to the war sought refuge from conscription in Switzerland. Zurich was a melting pot for these exiles and it was there on February 5th, 1916 that the writer Hugo Ball and his partner Emmy Hemmings opened the 'Cabaret Voltaire', In short it was an entertainment held in a night club.

THE SPIRIT OF DADA -Raoul Hausmann,1886-1971, 'The Spirit of Our Time', 1920-

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