Manifesto 'How to Recognise when you are turning into Sophie Calle'

Tutorial 25th Nov 2009 notes regarding Project Proposal

Opening up questions, what technically do I want to explore, what thematics?

I usually refer to my work in regards to it being a performance, although not being in the overt sense, rather relating this term in relations to the process in which I work. Using the camera as a tool of documentation and this often being the document of the performance itself.

This opens up a dialogue of what is considered to be performance? What is the 'Role' of the performer?

What processes are gone through in the performance? Does it need an audience to make it a viable piece of work? Can the processes themselves be the work rather then the intentioned outcome?

(e.g Film yourself editing the film)

The filtering out of information and deciding what is seen.

Am I a performer? A question to be asked, more in a sense of opening up a dialogue rather then encouraging this question to be answered and then dismissed. The audience would have to deal with this question.

Process as performance? | Structures?

Whats important?

(e.g The objects might not be there anymore just the script./ series of photographs documenting set up. etc)

Setting up a framework, someone else has contact with.

Wheres the audience? Who is the audience?

When is the word performance used correctly? What distinguishes performance?

Research:

- Actor Network Theory

- 'Out of Actions' Book on Performance Art

- 'Seriality' Mel Bochner (Setting up systems)

- Lars Von Trier (Dogme 95)

There of course would have to be a relevant reason to use super 8 rather then just the appeal of how it looks? I wish to experiment with this medium I would not consider myself to be a filmmaker and to use an old technology is something that appeals to me, I have looked at the work of Stan Brakhage previously.

There is a vibrancy in the colours within these films and the projector itself becomes integral to the work with the noise as light is projected through the frames. I have also written about the still and moving image in relation to Laura Mulveys text 'Death 24x a second'

'One Take' Project 3 (Nicky Hamlyn)

This is a film project, I want to use the film to encapsulate something the photograph may perhaps lose within the decisive moment.

I am intrigued by using film as documentation, exploring my surroundings and looking to the film as a trace of something, an imprint. Can this be the same within the digital medium of film or is there a lossless quality with the use of this technology opposed to analogue and the use of mediums such as 8mm or 16mm?