Sept 18th Tuesday

Todays task: what, how, why. Outcome 150 word text describing a piece of work you made. (X2 = 300 words) "The map is not the territory."

what 50 words <object>

how 50 words <method>

why 50 words <motivation>

Lets go:

I.

In 2017 I worked on a series of posters in collaboration with a good friend and an amazing performance artist Antrianna Moutoula. We created five of them (very vivid, very sensual) in total during a period of one month. As a final outcome we printed them out on paper in a size A1.

For this collaboration I was in charge of the graphic department. My visual input/output was a response to the passages of texts Antrianna has given me to work with. These bits of texts were written by her and were also used in her performances.

For her graduation Antrianna was presenting five different performances for each day of the exhibition and asked me to make a poster for each act separately. We were closely familiar with each-others work and were dealing with similar subjects in our practices. We have collaborated before and the results were always very intriguig therefore it motivated us to do it again.

II.

1/3 of my graduation presentation included an audio installation in a basement-like dark space. It consisted of a surround system - seven speakers connected to an audio interface - playing twelve different tracks in a continuos loop. Each track contained at least seven layers - each layer for each speaker.

I composed the tracks on Logic by using a method of cut/ erase/ paste/ rearrange. The foundation material used for this was famous pop hits by female pop & rnb artists (Rihanna, Britney, Xtina, Destiny’s Child etc.). No additional audio effects were used as I wanted to have an analog approach to cut&paste.

I was specifically interested to work with pop songs because for my thesis I was researching and writing about Postfeminism and what it was/ is / is meant to be ? Also how we as the future women-identified humans had been affected by the popular culture, more precisely music industry, and our childhood Idols.