Astridvan Nimwegen trimester4 2nd year
Visual overview Work in Progress trimester 4
Try-outs Different contexts to install/view my work:
Projection in a film theater:
Projection in a landscape:
Series of Garage-door Videos
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Research Bird Spotting Houses:
Experiments on Framing/Staging
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The difference in these photos is that the left one is just a tractor in a field and the right one becomes a tractor on a stage due to the framing.
Graduation proposal
Keywords
- Single fixed wide shots
- Time
- Landscape
- Light
- Humans
- Vulnerability
- Contradiction
- Absurdism
- The drama is in the staging itself
- Strict constraints
- Performance
- Ordinary life / the everyday
- Descriptions
- Surrealistic
- Make the complex simple
- Meaning of existence
- Awareness / conciousness
- Truth
- Literal
- Perception
- Circle
- Physical
- Psychological
- Documentary
- Film
Context/Other works
(Bas Jan Ader – Nightfall)
(Marina Abramovic – Confession)
(Photo’s ‘Confession’)
(Roy Andersson – Songs from the second floor)
(Peter Greenaway – Drowning by numbers)
(Allan Kaprow's book - Essays on the blurring of Art and Life) http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520240797
(Tarkovsky's book - Sculpting in time) http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/sculpting_in_time_tarkovsky_the_great_russian_filmaker_discusse.html