Sonia/gs1a
HOMEWORK
Theme Thesis
My thesis should serve as an in-depth artist statement whereby I interrogate and attempt to deconstruct the methods, processes and motivations of my artistic practice. I plan to situate my practice within a broader social and artistic context referencing texts on contemporary (expanded) photography theory and other artistic practices.
Presented in a photo book format I would like to have chapters that investigate different aspects of my practice (analytical language) interspersed with autobiographical entries (informal language) supported by a lot of visual material. Although I am attracted to the idea of producing a purely analytical essay I ultimately feel that a report on my research and practice will serve me better and be more useful for my short-term future aspirations.
Possible chapters:
- Duration & Time
- Journey & the Landscape & being Elsewhere
- Photomedia (Light-Space-Time structures, expanded photography and the rejection of Post-Photography)
- Materiality and beyond the analogue/digital binary
Annotated bibliography with 5 key texts (synopsis)
- Zylinska, J., 2017. Nonhuman photography. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England.
Nonhuman Photography is a theoretical text which looks at three types of "nonhuman" photography
- Cotton, C., 2007. The photograph as contemporary art, Reprinted. ed, Thames & Hudson world of art. Thames & Hudson, London.
The Photograph as Contemporary Art features reproductions of works by contemporary photographic artists separated into a number of (non-conventional) categories. Each image is accompanied by a description and critical analysis of the artist and/or their featured work. As a whole the publication serves as a document which gives a good overview of contemporary photographic practices.
- McKenzie, J., 2014. Light + photomedia: a new history and future of the photographic image, The international library of visual culture. Tauris, London.
Light + Photomedia proposes an alternative to the term photography and instead defines all media that incorporate light in some way as light-space-time structures and more broadly as photomedia.
- Campany, D. (Ed.), 2007. The cinematic, Documents of Contemporary Art. Whitechapel [u.a.], London.
- Solnit, R. 2005. A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Canongate Books Ltd, 2005.