User:Aitantv/Thesis

Reading List

GOT IT // Annemarie Mol, Eating in Theory (Duke University Press, 2021), 125.
N/A - Grace Dillo, Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)
N/A - Louise Erdrich’s novel Future Home of the Living God (2017) - sci-fi
N/A -Corvus (2015) by Harold Johnson - sci-fi
N/A -Larissa Lai’s latest novel, The Tiger Flu (2018) - post-hardware future, where plant seeds become technologies and the world has shifted entirely to wetware, cell culture, and herbology.
N/A - Alondra Nelson’s 2002 Social Text issue on Afrofuturism - coinage of the term afrofuturism
N/A -Marianne Hirsch, The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2012)
N/A -Jonathan Lethem (2007) 'The Ecstasy of Influence' Harpers Essay
Walter Benjamin "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction"
GOT IT - Georges Perec (1974) "Attempt at an Inventory of the Liqiud and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four"
GOT IT - Azoulay, A.A, (2019) Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, Verso Books, London

Assesment recommendations:

GOT - James Tiptree Jnr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon – concept of intermediary/hidden identity)
DONE - Eve Tuck and C. Ree, A Glossary of Haunting (2013) (essay on horror films and colonialism)
N/A - Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant theory for Indigenous Sound Studies
David Bernstein, ‘Judaeo-futurism’
N/A - Sci-fi publisher Tor’s world sci-fi anthologies

Watch List

Food Inc. (anti-corporate food industry film)
Thirst (2009) dir. Park Chan-Wook (Old Boy, Handmaiden, etc.)
Tsai Ming Liang (where no ones DLGs to camera)
Host, Parasite
Eraserhead, dinner scene
Festen
Bela Tarr - film about banquet with homeless - https://www.eyefilm.nl/nl/programma/bela-tarr/125976
Mika Rottenberg - food re-production
Valie Export - internal performance
Hito Steyerl - Fucking .mov file (invisibility)
Yusron Fuadi, Skull
Wanuri Kahiu, Pumzi
Nelson Makengo, Theatre Urbain
Pere Portabella 'El Sopar' (1974) - collective discussion, political action/activism, people meeting, preparing dinner, and eating
Uncle Boonmee - haunting dinner party - Apichatpong
Flux Gourmet, Peter Strickland
Chris Marker, Sans soleil (using the VO as a way of creating another layer of character)

Meeting 01 - 25.05.22

"The presentation of a text as a body of written work" / "a report on your research and practice"
can flow to narrative flourishes
balancing free jazz with analysis
creating your own discourse, use the language of your discourse
I: Aracde Project by Walter Banjamin, Uncreative Writing by Kennith Goldsmith
Why not use time as a spatial procedure? The space of the text can represent time, and the text can be a pre-recorded narrated experience
Therems: first person perspective; subjectivity; live action narration; slippage shapeshifting; remediation; body memory

Natasha Tutorials 02 - 24.11.22

go into these personal areas
use the thesis as a place
11th Dec - cooking interview - the host cooks - technical choices why did you go that route? - go deep with 3/4 interviewees / refine strategies - the subject could interview you too, spin the gaze - self-interview - both wearing body cams -
SURVEILLANCE (Architecture, Body, Society) - Visibility, Hypervisibility - Who gets to walk around unnoticed?
British Asian - Barnoo Kapil - 'the vertical interogation of strangers' - devised
Mofrodat
Analysing own work - best way to go deeper into the practice - connecting it to a wider context - the particular as a vehicle for the universal - Chris Kraus, autofiction - why does this theme come up? what techniques were used?
'The Years'
Former theses - Filiona 'Indigenous Gaze' 2020
bring the problems in the project - the uneases about claiming - the thesis can help with this unease -
Plan for the First Chapter - outline the entire structure of the thesis / close reading of three works / just has to be a section / what to push against /
send draft chapter

Natasha Tutorials 03 - 08.12.22

Yael Davids - performance artist - potential interviewee
morning of 21st send what you can
close reading of relevant works 1000 words
bare in mind other political genres of sci fi -
share research strategies
drawing on a wide range of media - ensure that it doesnt lose focus

Natasha Tutorials 04 - 21.12.22

GENERAL NOTES

if diaspora, food and identity are themes, explain why. and if science fiction is the medium. why? why science fiction?
more explicit explanation of framework
it works when you take responsibility - speak from the position of I - Avoid dictating universal essay mode
dont be afraid to acknowlegde the idiosyncracy of the project. explore your imaginative film langauge (not sci-fi); this fabulous language. How can I use and expand on this language for the essay film? The indiviudal can't help but be expressed in the work.
the core content/knowledge of the thesis and project are already there - your relationship with diaspora/food/identity and your film language. The process is one of expanding this core, as opposed to finding more references and different lines of inquiry. Things that interest you (concepts, films, scripts) can then feed into this core of personal material.

STRUCTURE

1 previous work - analysing explaing your language
2 key themes (food diaspora identity) in response to this idiosyncratic language
3 dogme - the practical principles that will guide the project, and the inspiration for these principles. draw out technical elements from previous films that could feed into the dogme
4 close reading of existing shooting material, test footage,

READING LIST

theory relating Derrida 'Of Hospitality'(interview, Algerian Jewish);
Jewish fables;
Isaac Bashevis Singer, short fiction stories;
Isaac Babel (plays, film scripts)
tutors are excited by the project and by what has already been filmed. Have faith in the practical choices and outcomes of the project.

Natasha Tutorials 05 - 13.01.23

how are you going to expand the thesis with the notes youve made
puzzle - collage - montage
inventory of different elements - interviews timecodes, scripts excerpts, notes on reading, process journal minutae details, fantastical fiction, youtube clips
to-do: let's see some process journal

Natasha Tutorials 06 - 26.01.23

camera - good cinematic hybrid -
using mixed media approach - also connects the three chapters thematically and content wise
use Hungry Host as a core conceptual framework - keep bringing it back to these different themes
intro - consider the 'hungry host' in a more concrete way - setting out for the reader the key to this experimental, exploratory process - lock it to the 'I'
Parasitism - geneorosity of the host country; 'something for nothing',
don't feel the need to blend everything so it's homogenous
re-read: Carrier bag of Fiction (food, appetite, storytelling)
food writing is good
keep the journal stuff more journal - if it becomes too essayistic bring it out of the
cooking and eating as labour / reproductive labour (feminism 70s) house
keep track of the
next step: introduction + contents page: fill it up some more

Paired reading tutorial - 09.02.23

form

give the reader a compass in the intro to help navigate the experimental form of the text - consider adding thesis form section to main intro.
well built-up nothing is missing
vivid, visual, tangible examples
somewhat heavy subject matter
cite Digital Tarkovsky as an inspiration
you're developing a compound eye - like an insect
the 'hungry dogme' may not be necessary and perhaps is too thick and strict for the style

labour

the "emotional balance sheet" could be carried through in later sections - the catharsis of the work being appreciated
and what about feeding off the work of others? what does it give you to experience art?

the thesis question

Q. How can I produce an experimental analysis of the key themes conjoined through the coinage 'hungry host'? The thesis as an answer to that

speak often in economic terms

"reproductive labour" - an important concept to reference - the unpaid labour (e.g. domestic tasks) that grease the wheels of capitalism. Also a link to artistic labour - is it reproductive in generating entertainment and amusement for hungry spectators who have disposable income?

film references:

the african desperate
tampopo
earwig
the consequences (novel) Nina Weiers

Natasha tutorial - first draft thesis - 23.02.23

titles - consider Hungry Host style
zooming in/out - is working really well with first-person perspective
intro - add a bit about how thesis relates to project, and the use of interview as a methodology
conclusion - shapeshifting / hiding / revealing - being on the periphery or margins of your own story - finish with a journal entry, or simply leave it at the end of diaspora
diaspora - Yael Batana - Israeli artist - sci-fi, hospitality
Lottringer - publisher/academic - through translation introduced french post-structuralist text - semiotext - hidden child during the war - mother lived in Paris during occupation

Tutorials - 06.03.23 - PbP V06 (2023)

Sabine tutorial

Choice of hoodie has certain connotations
more contextual
fine balance
some sort of gesture of re-enactment could help connect the head scarfs - emphasise the visual embodiment of my ancestry
opening anecdote - chewing - emphasis is on "the four years old" not on the "chewing chewing chewing" - need to place emphasis on the chewing
mode of address - is their a difference between "the voice of god" and the "performative setup"? - there's a claim for everything topp be true - do you slip from the status of the voice -
VO - is an alienating register - all the same intent and same time -
the appropriation is concealed
playing with the volume of the obscruity/appropriation -
feeding off this cultural ancestry / its interesting to put this process in a "self-ironic" light / anti self-righteous, commodification of one's otherness,
between search for authenticity/heritage but as a neoliberal subject - absorbing a social justice rhetoric into a fine art practice - capitalising on Otherness in the context of identity politics
there's a liberating aspect
the question of whether it is interesting is how much do you allow us to go along with those acknowledgements
you get there when your voice has variation - what ifs - having this conversation
you dont have to choose between authenticity/performativity - but be intentional with which register is being used.

Rosella tutorial - 06.03.23

the subterrain is somewhat apocalyptic - self-isolating - hermit
something going on the surface
they are somehow not a part of civilisation - hiding - dystopian projected in the future
question over the ambiguity
flesh out the connections
is this a visual poem or prose? do you need to flesh it out
the language being used
can we have a version with full explaination - you can always pull back to keep the poetic register
bring it back to the basics - what do you want to tell?

Project Mentor

I think you're better than cooking
interested in the digital images - and the brutal naming of these people
too much is being hidden - "crypto Jews" - hidden Jews in Amsterdam
food - don't have the TOP shots
play with the pre-conceptions you're aware of e.g. the mughal decoration of the data centre
data - centre - treat it with the same gravity/majesty as the mosque
data center - crypto Jews - cyber security - crypto trading - surveillance - omnipresent - all-seeing - underground