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| '''Aitana's 1st draft Text on practice (unfinished, I will upload the 2nd draft before Wednesday)'''
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| Anne Carson: "A woman would expose her inside truths that were supposed to be kept private. "By projections and leakages of all kinds -somatic, vocal, emotional, sexual- females expose or expend what should be kept in" (Carson, 1996, pg. 129); this reveals society's fear of death, blood, darkness, birth and therefore, the female body (...) one of the principal characteristics of sound is its unique relationship with interiority. (...)
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| What have you been making?
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| This last month I've been editing a 4 minutes video called "Are we having a conversation?", a synaesthetic work in which the visuals accompany the sound, resulting in a flickering, fast-moving image.. I decided the title one month ago and I don't know if it fits now with the content but also seems to be quite ambiguous and open as the final piece.
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| How did you do it?
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| It has been a project with a lot of steps, and still being. First of all, I knew that I wanted to work with round and cropped visuals, using the black screen as a white canvas to paint. I also wanted the image to respond to the sound, so there would only be visual information when there was sound. I started to think about the project from this formal decision. Thereafter I started thinking about the audio content (suggestions). I tried different readings from books related to image making, the invisible, the forbidden... but it didn't work. Then I started listening to voice recordings sent by different friends and making notes of them. From this year till 2018. I suddenly was captivated by the nature of the messages and the conversations and the topics we discussed, some of them were more spontaneous and others worked for me as a "sound letters" in which we told each other stories, experiences that have happened to us. I found a message sent from my friend Isa in the summer of 2019 in which she shares with me an experience she had while reading a novel with her sister. She links the creation process with sexual empowerment. She tells me about it as an amazing and fun discovery that gives her a lot of energy and joy. I decided to use that message because in a way it connects me with what I feel now in the present, how body and mind wellbeing are related to creation. The second step was to work on the script. The message was quite long, around 8 minutes, so I had to removed almost half of it. I preserved the parts which seem more open to me and removed the most specific ones (for example she addressed the message to me, she talked about the specific book and also the influence in her singing practice (she is a singer)). Once I had the audio "edited" I worked on the visuals. I wanted to use random footage from different worlds: medicine, scientific, the body (inner body and "physical body") and the universe. I used this kind of footage in the editing, I didn't care a lot about the content itself because it easily gets lost in the pase of the video, but I think it also acts as a resonance of the speech, as a subconscious visual impression while the speech goes on.
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| Relation to previous practice In November I was working in a project which doesn't have a name yet. It is composed by of a series of photographs completely or partially covered with paint, more or less opaque. There are four A4 size images completely covered in black and pink and 8 others of different sizes partially covered. The paint can be scraped off, revealing the image underneath. The images below are unretouched fashion photographs, which have never been published on the internet. This is an experimental approach to the research I am working in now, which in a broad sense is related to the unknown and the things that are about discovering. It could also be related to the subconscious, with the discovery of what lies underneath. Somehow this images seem to work with the same concepts through a different approach and technique. The subject is not the same either but the approach is.
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| What do you want to make next I would like to reflect more in this practice, "dissect" the different elements and interests that I have and work on that in a more rational aspects perhaps, I don't know. I believe that thinking and designating the different layers would be useful to address the following practice. This could be the layers I have for now: - The source as the voice, the source as the image (as meta) - The content: the private, the forbidden - The plastic: the aesthetic, the abstract
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| The next work I am thinking of also revolves around topics as intimacy, privacy or unknown. I will start experimenting with recording my own voice using scripts from different sources ranging from public to private environments, conversations I recorded years ago in a business context, conversations with friends and also from Spanish TV archive.
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| '''(unfinished, I will upload the 2nd draft before Wednesday)'''
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