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4th Term

Imagined Performance

Artist

I was approached by a new music artist to do an full image and branding for him. Including album cover, photoshoot, website, logo, the works. He talks about making music in all genre's and has global ambitions. Trying to transcend latin music and incorporate different cultures such as the gay subculture. Therefore naming his alter ego Cuco and basically projecting all of the creole madness onto him. The concept is entirely in my hands and it is an experiment for me. His music is his way of expressing his struggles in life and has a therapeutic almost escapist way of giving a positive message. With on the other hand having an emotional side note. My visual start is this:

The Meta Video

Plan

Creating Realities - Work in Progress

A Few Ideas

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players"

Investigate the Performance

Explore the stage persona, or persona's in general

How To Live:A Pop Culture Guide
on how tv shows, movies and music tell us how to behave, feel and live.

Context of Work

Keywords Pop culture Gender Body French Paintings Kinect Interactive Behaviour Ouvertures Dancing Performance DIY Narrative Ballet Celebrity Culture

Acting Act Immersion Korean Pop Japan Stage Warhol Nietzsche Spinoza Rob Riemen Music Video Projection Apollo, Dionysus Utopia Installation

Musical Karaoke Purikura Leviathan Anish Kapoor Escapism James Turrell Versailles City Symphony Another Way Of Telling Picasso Beyoncé Inventing the Victorians Mirror Imaging Audience Participation

Project survey (related projects/artists) Paris is Burning Andy Warhol's Screentests ♡Richard Avedon's Performances♡ ♡Beyoncé♡ Genie Inspirational Material ♡♡♡

Graduate Project Tutorials Tutorials Aymeric, Michael, September 18th Tutorials Aymeric, Michael, David, October 2nd Tutorials David, Barend October 9th Tutorial Thomson & Craighead October 29th Tutorial Femke Snelting November 1st

Graduate Research Seminar Project Descriptions, September 26th Connections and research plan, October 3rd Project Proposal Draft, October 10th Project Proposal, November 28th

Graduation Project Research Start A Project A Day Keeps The Doctor Away 1

A Project A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

Hester Scheurwater

I saw Hester Scheurwater's work in the Frank Taal Gallery last week. Her artist statement is all sorts of amazing.

"The mirrored self-images encompass my private fantasies. They are my way of reacting on the imitated and fake media images, which are constantly calling upon our imagination, without intending to be taken too seriously. I try to deconstruct this call’s effect with my reactions by switching the ’subject-object’ relationship, without being victimised by it. My self-images show I am not a victim of an imposed sexually charged visual culture, instead I give a self-aware answer, in which I try to show my feelings and/or views on the unreal and fake imagery, which is forced upon us daily. This series of photos emerged from a collection of daily uploads on Facebook and my personal blog. In the digital public space, I try to reinforce the exhibitionist nature by presenting them in the context of a living room or a living room setting. In this context exhibitionism and voyeurism come together. Using my own body as a sex object in corresponding poses and an auto-erotic gaze I study voyeurism and exhibitionism."

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Music Video

I was experimenting with DaVinci Resolve. Recently downloaded it and was trying it out. It's interesting to look back at the footage I shot in this music video prototype. I was directing her after each take we shot and eventually it became a choreographed performance. I think it's kind of interesting to think about choreography as something where both your body and your mind want to do the same things. The mind is telling the body to move as perfectly as possible. To practice the movement and attitude until the point arrives where the mind no longer has to think about proprioception and everything happens naturally.

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The Higher Self

Marina talking about the higher and lower self.
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The Artist is Present

I've rewatched the documentary The Artist is Present by Marina Abramovic. There's just so much in this documentary about the performance. And I think this brings me out of the box of a more theatre-like performance and also adds the magic of performance art. Here are my notes from it.

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Piano concert

Was filming to see if there would be a recognizable change in the way this man was acting when he started to play his music. Never really happened. Apparently you can make any place into a small stage for performance, though that does not always allow for a person to transform into the stage persona. This turned out to be more of a situation where someone who happens to play the piano as a hobby just plays a little something for people to enjoy for about an hour.

Carrie Bradshaw's Group Therapy

About how Sex and the City taught us all about life in NYC and the therapeutical reflecting main character Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker. Tv Shows teach us how to live our lives and solve our problems. Though SATC is not the most heteronormative tv show.

Cosplay

About living the fantasy. Using anime/manga/cartoons to escape reality and be whoever we want to be. Sometimes even have superpowers. Using the persona, re-enactment. Putting Beyoncé and Cosplay together makes me think of the second lives. The separation between the persona and the every day life 'self'. To have a successful persona is to completely forget about the self.

3rd Term

Factory Reset, Thematic Project

Factory Sketch
Factory Description

Reading Writing and Research Methodologies

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ビヨンセ! Biyonse in Roodkapje

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Roodkapje Opening 11th of May

Roodkapje Opening 11th of May

Sketches

The Sound We See

Poster Design, Silkscreens

Workshops

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.470057533020593.126048.100000490522398&type=3
Tactile Noise Workshop with Andre Castro

2nd Term

2nd Term Assessment Notes

DIY Narrative

link to prototype of DIY Narrative

Prototype Screencap

Earlier Layout Sketch with thumbnails

Boerhaave Museum Piece

Boerhaave Museum Project experiments

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Open Day / Musical Symposium Project
working with the Kinect and Animata

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Prototypes

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Tutorials

• First tutorial with Steve on the 28th of October

Research Methodology

• October 5th Notes
• October 10th Description Assignment
• October 10th Annotation Assignment
• October 18th Description "How" Assignment
• October 18th Description "Why" Assignment
• October 25th Annotation of The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
• October 28th Complete first draft of the annotation about the documentary Paragraph 175
• November 2nd Final Annotation about the documentary Paragraph 175
• November 10th Outline
• November 23rd Essay Draft
• December 14th Essay - The influence of media on gay subculture in a mass-society
• January 18th Annotation on Issues In The New Cinematic Aesthetic of Video by Chrissie Iles
• January 25th 1. Celluloid Closet Annotation 2. Male Fantasies Annotation (Preface) 3. Freedom Writers Notes 4. Reflection (relevance to the notion of interface)
• April 18th Project Description for Gallery

1st Term

* Project 2

Cinemagraph 01
Cinemagraph 02
Cinemagraph 03
Cinemagraph 04

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Experiment 1

* Project 1

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Experiment 10
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Installation 1
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Experiment 5


Experiment 4

Experiment 3


Experiment 2


Experiment 1