INDEPENDENT PRACTICE: INTERROGATION
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With this wall I try to explain how I understand todays world.
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In this image the Positive had been crushed by the Negative. It represents nowadays situation.
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This image presents the situation I want to achieve with my work. The Negative should finally be pressed by all the good .
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man·i·fes·ta·tion Noun:
1. An event, action, or object th thing, esp. a theory or an abstract idea: 2. The action or fact of showing some of anxiety”.
This is the research I have done to understand the word manifesto better. I looked at definition, read books, magazines and looked for people interested in manifestos.
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The pieces of work I have done are all based on researching a manifesto with issues that are important to me. I cover consumerism, feminism, and the media. To try different ways of presenting manifestos I chose various mediums, like intervention, photography, illustration, collages and mixed media.
FUTURISTIC approach In the eyes of Pompeii resurgence will be followed by the illiterate nithing in the sun are supreme the world with their brilliance Living art bears drew their artistic inspiration fed their souls or contemporary lifewhich envelops the earth marvellous flights submarine navigators unknown.
I used the book “100 Artists’ Manifestos“ to recreate a new manifesto by covering some parts of sentences. The red-ish page also represents a burning book showing the Futurists belief in old books which according to them were only graves in librarys and should be burnt.
cities of the bon viveur, we will also play we will declare war behind a facade tradition, We condemn as insulting to youth rabble for the sickening Rome; they rave about France; which they are clerks which they think encrusted rubbish worshipping the work of our deepest contempt.
Messing With The Meaning
exploding self-styled utopian project emancipatory deep-seated emotions revolution living sculptures outlandish deadly serious against right angles
This typographical poster is a conclusion from looking at the meaning of the word “manifesto“. The words were collected from the book “100 Artists’ Manifestos“.
Part I - denial Part II - blindness
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I used intervention to show lack of understanding or wrong perspectives people have which influences our lives.
Part 1. Denial
Part II. Blindness Everything alive is perfect as it is Every living form is strongest when in peace and relationship with others Everything alive is free Everything alive is a beautiful indivudual component of the world Everything alive doesn’t have to be destroyed because of narrow-mindedness
CONSUMERISM
This collage is a presentation of the rich and poor countries’ relationship. It shows how rich countries influence poor ones and gives a strong observation of the issue. Countries like America are the biggest consumers, while many African countries are dying from starvation..
- What are you doing? - Spreading a feminism idea...
A mirror instalation I used to raise the feminism question. The mirror distorts the body infront and makes it look extremely skinny. A girl standing infront of it was encouraged to think about how popular culture is influencing women‘s perception of themselves; why media turns women into skeletons in order to look more attractive and successful. I am comparing such women with women in poor countries who do not have a choice while others decide to starve.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL Collage representing the masses of information attacking people. I believe that in contemporary culture people do not have a different choice but to be surrounded by mass media.
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BLINKERED SOCIETY
I have created blinkers from a newspaper to represent how narrow peoples perspective is nowadays. Even though they want to see a different point of view, all they can see is information that the media wants them to absorb.
Here I decided to be more extreme and to use a newspaper spread to cover the whole face. It is another presentation of the understanding and perceptions people have which are mostly based on what the media tells them.
RODERICK MILLS WORKSHOP
The workshop was based on experimental drawing, during which I created various collages.
LAB WEEK I found the LAB week very inspiring and useful. It was a great opportunity to meet all different creators and be familiarised with their work. I went to all five talks and was delighted to listen to their stories about how they came to the design world. Hellicar and Lewis and Roderick Mills motivated me not to be afraid to travel to different countries and to work with various projects. It was great to listen to their advice and experiences. After the week I was left with a great amount of useful tips from all the creators. I think that A LAB week like this is essential to everyone and has to be repeated!
Evaluation I feel the Independent Practice unit was a big step forward. I concentrated on my own experiences and beliefs, which allowed me to look at my work from a different point of view. My Independent Practise project is Manifestos. I decided to challenge a manifesto and tried various mediums to create it. I was working with contemporary issues that are important to me. I looked at consumerism, feminism and mass media. To be inspired to work on these subjects I was influenced by few people and my personal past experience; knowledge which finally brought me to these issues. I also tried to use different techniques in visualising my work, like photography, interventions, illustrations, collages and mixed medias. I’ve started looking at contemporary consumerism culture and its influence made to other countries. For example, America as the country which consumes the most, is highly influencing poor countries. This took me to another subject – how popular culture is influencing women and their understanding of what beauty is. I chose to compare women who aren’t happy with their bodies with women who are forced to starve because their countries are extremely poor. I have also built an installation during the Independent Practise exhibition day to represent this idea to both men and women. I used paper with mirror effect that was partly bent and stuck on the wall. All reflections were distorted and bodies in front of the mirror looked very skinny. Moreover, I’ve created a typeface for the word “feminine”. The word is built from images of starving women. One woman in the image is dragging the word (feminine), representing how impossibly difficult a woman’s life can be when surrounded by aggressive perfection messages in mass media. Two previous themes brought me to the mass media issue. All my life, except for the most recent couple of years, I used to watch television and read newspapers. Then I understood that it was not doing me any good and was just simply changing my thinking to a useless way. Led by that and encouraged by Charlie Veitch’s work, I decided to talk about this subject. I am presenting people wearing “horses’ glasses” – blinkers. Their main purpose is to prevent the “subject” from seeing what is happening at the edges of their field of vision. In this case I decided to make a pair of blinkers with the inside covered in newspaper articles. It means that people’s perspectives are restricted by information from the media. Another experiment I tried was giving people newspaper “masks” covering all their faces. It becomes the only truth and reality people understand and accept in todays world. The work I have done so far is being explored in wider contexts. I also plan to send some of my collages to “Adbusters” magazine to share my ideas. At the moment I am looking for more places my style of work could be presented.
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