Notes on Beauty Queens - December 16, 2016
February 5, 2017
My latest work WORLDPEACE has been a changing point in my practice as an artist working with photography. For the first time I work with found footige which I appropriate and re-mediate. The work consists of a series of images of beauty queens in their crowning moments. Zooming in on ecstatic faces emotions of extreme joy and happiness transform into something else. The images are presented larger than life-sized, standing on the floor.
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My latest work WORLDPEACE explores the impact of ecstatic emotions stripped of their context.
The work consists of a series of images taken from beauty pageants, concentrating on the crowning moment of the beauty queens.
Zooming in on their ecstatic faces emotions of extreme joy and happiness transform into something else. The images are presented larger than life-sized, standing on the floor.
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Starting point for my latest work were my feelings of overwhelming disbelief to recent political and social developments that effect me emotionally. The work WORLDPEACE explores the impact of ecstatic emotions stripped of their original context. It consists of a series of appropriated and remediated images taken from American beauty pageants. The images concentrate on the very moment of the crowning of the beauty queens. Zooming in on their frantic faces, emotions of extreme joy and happiness transcend themselves into something else that seems to foreshadow doom. The images are presented larger than life-sized, standing on the floor, ideally surrounding the spectator.
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Ausgangspunkt für diese Arbeit war meine emotionale Reaktion bezüglich der jüngsten politischen und sozialen Entwicklungen. Die Arbeit WORLDPEACE besteht aus einer Reihe von Bildern aus Amerikanischen Schönheitswettbewerben. Die Bilder sind ihrem Kontext entnommen und konzentrieren sich lediglich auf die Gesichter der Schönheitsköniginnen in dem Moment der Krönung. Die Ausdrücke extremer Freude transzendieren hier in eine Art düstere Vorahnung. Die Bilder werden überlebensgroß im Raum präsentiert, vorzugsweise in einem den Betrachter umschließenden Kreis.
January 25, 2017
Unpack the important and complex issue of me putting something upon the women that's not there
-> Berger: Every image embodies a way of seeing. The photographers way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject. Yet, although every image embodies a way of seeing, our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing. The images become part of an argument which has little or nothing to do with its original independent meaning. The power of mechanical images.
Explain political commentary
Read about Re-Mediation
Explore more: Fun Factor: I seem to enjoy the discomfort and feel pity at the same time
Think about the effects of different arrangements: circular, corridor
Think about evidence of movie posters
Look at Anthropologists on the subject of Beauty Pageants
December 16, 2016
Ambivalence: Authentic performance versus Staged emotions
Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance
Vulnerability
At the hight of Joy an opposed truths seems to be revealed. To me the women seem to screem I want to break free from this fucked up system
Note: Candidates of beauty pageants have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc
Ine: Bataille on ecstasy