In Wednesday’s class I used the questions you posed from week 4’s reading by Bettina Frankham to shape an open-form lecture unpacking relational aesthetics, categorical documentary and web documentaries.
If you missed out and/or want to find out more here is a list of articles/works I showed/referred to:
–Anika D’s article on relational aesthetics
–Lorenzo Pereira’s article on conceptual art
–Gap Toothed Women as example of categorical documentary
–Are you Happy Project? as an example of how web docs might erase the line between spectator and maker (a relational documentary)
–The Quipu Project as an example of why we might make web docs – as places to elicit participation
-This excerpt from High School as an example of mosaic structure because it accumulates facets to draw an image of high school as an institution
I then introduced Task Three where you have to use one of your questions from your refining post in task two as a prompt to conduct an experiment in noticing.
In Thursday’s class you shared your refining questions from task two and started thinking about how you might respond to this question by making. You then developed recipes for practice, which might look something like this (as an example). For Task Three you will do three iterative cycles of question > making > reflecting > from week’s 5-7 that will then lead you to developing a large scale noticing project which you will pitch in week 8 to an external panel.
I then introduced the films of James Benning, showing clips from Ten Skies and 13 Lakes. We then posed these questions in response to Panse’s “Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Eco-Aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning’s Land Films.”
Finally, in pairs we did this long-take exercise based off Panse’s reading. Due in class next week.
Some reminders:
– Make sure you create a tag/category that you use for your portfolio of posts that will make up task three. If you don’t know what this means there are tutorials on Lynda in WordPress Essential Training. While your at it make a task 3 media folder in your Google submission folder.
– You get to decide how many posts you’re going to do for your portfolio based on your experiment. These posts need to cover (at minimum) your question, recipe, media you make and reflection.
– Your portfolio posts need to engage with ideas from readings and discussions.
– I will go through the criteria for task three next week, where we will look at each other’s blog posts and give feedback.
See you next week 🙂