Mia/Project proposal

Project proposal DRAFT 1 (12.9. 2019)

1. What do you want to make? And how? Continue practice between photography and gestural mark making (including both Trace and Drawing Camera) Photographic series (pictures merge photographs and drawings), possibly an installation Continue Trace – photographic series, a typology. Make more books and explore other means of presentation (wallpaper, flooring etc.) Drawing Camera - develop further: Make another camera (to explore possibilities of movement integrated in the pictures); take more pictures; try out different means of materialization of the photographs (on support such as textile, plexiglass, paper etc.) Photograms and camera-less pictures created in the darkroom

2. How do you plan to make it?

3. What is your timetable? September&October: printing, materialising the pictures I made last trimester October&November: 2 exhibitions (to try out a couple of ideas, as prototypes) October: making another camera Then … I don’t know yet

4. Why do you want to make it? TO Develop specific practice between drawing (gestural mark-making) and photography WHAT FOR Because I am attracted to the fundaments of both means of image-making and I think they can be tightly related PUROPSE OF MY IMAGES, WHAT DO I WANT TO CONVEY

5. Who can help you and how? Tutors: analyzing, bringing another view on what the work means Fellow students: same Sonia as an experienced photographer, also interested in formal and inherent qualities of the photographic medium: by sharing the research (group readings), practical experiences and skills (help with printing in the darkroom) Mathijs (guest teacher for DIY camera workshop): building another camera Teachers of the photography workshop (Menno and Jeroen): practical and technical matters (actual printing, building the camera etc.)

6. Relation to previous practice Previous practice based in drawing, painting, printmaking Current practice means bridging these with photography All share the basic concepts such as: a mark, an image, an index, a print, a gesture, surface and layering

7. Relation to a larger context History of photography (early-photographic processes) Theories of drawing (drawing in a broad sense) Theory of the photographic medium (V. Flusser, S. Sontag, M. Jay) Related practices: http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Mia/References Claude Blo Ricci, Tacita Dean, Pierre Cordier, Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer, Juliana Borinski, Peter Rauch…

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