Mia/Project proposal

1. What do you want to make? And how?

I propose to make a photographic series (or mixed media series of pictures)
I wish to continue with the practice between photography and gestural mark making (including both 'Trace' and 'Drawing Camera')
concretely: a photographic series (pictures that merge photographs and drawings), possibly an installation
to continue 'Trace' – photographic series, a typology (of marks of use, deliberate or accidental traces in public space). HOW: By making more books and explore other means of presentation (wallpaper, flooring etc.)
to further develop the 'Drawing Camera'. HOW: By making another camera (to explore possibilities of movement integrated in the pictures); taking more pictures; trying out different means of materialisation of the photographs (on support such as textile, plexiglass, paper etc.)
Photograms and camera-less pictures. HOW: Create in the darkroom.

3. What is your timetable?

September&October: printing, materialising the pictures I made in the past trimester
October&November: 2 exhibitions (to try out a couple of ideas, as prototypes)
October: making another camera
December: darkroom experimentation
Then … I don’t know yet

4. Why do you want to make it?

With my recent practice, I explore mark-making because it seems to me that there are fundamental similarities between marks we leave and I believe this kind of traces are something we all have in common. They are in fact predecessors of (visual and verbal) language and belong to the very human nature. It fascinates me. *Because I am attracted to the fundaments of both means of image-making, photographic and gestual and I think they can be tightly related.

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
e.g.: Claude Blo Ricci, Tacita Dean, Pierre Cordier, Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer, Juliana Borinski, Peter Rauch…

8. References