Luca-project proposal

Project Proposal

1 What do you want to make?

The work(s) I wish to make this year are two short video’s. If time allows me I’d also like to make a work of 3 miniature sculptures.

All works talk about an element that makes a single person's identity/the story of how we are. I aim to focus on people and their search for identity. Who are we? Where do we belong? How malleable is our identity? I’d like to show that people never know or possess one identity but that it consists of many layers and different "characters' ' that we can discover and alternate in a playful way.

The works:

THIS IS US Is a video in which you see a group of four people in five different scenes. Every scenes shows how the group wants to be identified as a whole. “I belong therefore I am “. The style of the video is characterized by the four performers, wearing distinct coherent costumes in a minimal scenographic setting. THIS IS US has a non linear dramaturgie, and can be seen as a collage of moments.

LOOK A LIKE LUC A LIKE In the short video LOOK A LIKE / LUC A LIKE, we see three different size screens. On each screen we see Luca being dressed up in a different costume. In every scene we see her looking different and she’s doing all kinds of small gestures, like reading a book or having a phone call, looking around, crying, laughing, wondering….ect. The video is somewhat like a catalogue of all kinds of characters Luca tries to embody. LOOK A LIKE / LUC A LIKE is a image based resurge into the different characters one person can embody. By doing so its questioning if this one person acts or becomes all these different characters. “By imitating many others I may find a self “

optional SMALL THINGS MATTER Is a series of three miniature sculptures. Every sculpture refers to something my mother ever did or said that had impact on me.

2 How do you plan to make it?

For THIS IS US I’d like to study the books; In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf and Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga. I’ve always wanted of read these books because they talk about themes I like working with. So its time to not only think but learn what they really have to say. To be inspired in writing short scene ill reread the book true stories by Sophie call and start reading The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. ill start writing short scenes myself with 4 characters in mind. Next to that ill make drawings of the ‘dream sequences’ that will be complementary to these short scenes. Ill make a final visual and written script.

LOOK A LIKE/LUC A LIKE starts with collecting many images of people on the web.

Il thoroughly study the photography works of; Jo Spence phototherapy, Ana Mendieta self portraits, Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek Exactitudes, Cindy Sherman portraits, Gillian Wearing self-portraits. Erwin wurm one minut sculptures and look at the styling work of Ibrahim Kamara. I’ll reread the book; What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter and take a closer look at the videos; Manifesto of Julian Rosefeldt and becoming by Candice Breitz.

After being overloaded by these inspirations Ill make categories of the two elements most important in this video: characters and gestures. ill decide which character does what gesture. And last but definitely not least, I collect material such as clothing, wigs and make up to work with.

Making SMALL THING MATTER consists of a long term writing exercise. In this exercise I try to write down everything I remember my mother saying and doing which had an impact on me. If I have enough memories ill start making drawings of them. After making a selection of three works ill ring my mother to set a date for the making proces, that ill do together with her.

To be inspired ill look at the books; MOM by Charlie Engman and Rachel Monique By Sophie call. For the writing proces I read: I Remember by Joe Brainard. And to visually be inspired ill look at the sculptural works of; Rebecca horn.

3 What is your timetable?

NOVEMBER 01 - 07 Researching references of related works and collecting images. 08 - 14 Preparing filming collecting materials 15 - 21 Filming of LOOK A LIKE/LUC A LIKE 22 - 24 29 - 01 DEC Editing of LOOK A LIKE/LUC A LIKE

DECEMBER 01 - 12 Researching references for THIS IS US, reading: In the Name of Identity, Homo Ludens, true stories and The Collected Stories.

13 - 31 Writing scenes for THIS IS US

JANUARY 01 - 16 Writing final script

17 - 31 Preparing shooting, (location costumes)

FEBRUARY 01 - 28 Extra month if things don’t go as fast as planned + Maybe make Small things matter

MARCH 01 - 13 14 - 31 Filming THIS IS US

APRIL 01 - 30 Editing THIS IS US

MAY 01 - 31 Maybe make Small things matter

JUNE 01 - 30 Maybe make Small things matter