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Project proposal draft - Astrid van Nimwegen

Tentative Title

??Make the ordinary extra-ordinary??

General Introduction

Currently I am experimenting on a series of moving images which consist of simple video’s of dutch landscapes seen from out a garage door which is opening first and closing again after two minutes. I record the same wide shot multiple times with a static camera. You see leaves moving; the weather changing and the light in those different shots is never the same.

Relation to previous practice

In former works there always was too much going on, in this I missed the mode of attention from the viewer. Endurance and repetition have always been important elements in my work. I want to reveal the complexity of life through the simple. The images which reveal complexity behind the simple are to be found in the everyday so I want to search in this everyday and use my intuition to find and recognize them. Maybe my most made mistake is to make the simple complex instead of the other way around and therefore a lot of older video’s I did not found convincing enough.

Practical steps

In practice I am looking for other landscape video’s which speak in a way the same language as the garage door shots and my research is now to experiment with them further and search for a way to bring them together so that they can form eachothers context. Different ways to explore this are:

-To bring them together in an installation or collection;

-To edit them somehow in a linear timeline;

-To show the garagedoor video’s in a cinema as a short before the featurefilm;

-To project them in other landscapes;

-To let some small gestures take place in the landscape to see if this can add something

In theory I am currently reading 'Theatre & Everyday Life' by Alan Read and 'Everyday Life and Cultural Theory' by Ben Highmore. Of some chapters I want to write annotations and also want to describe work by Bas Jan Ader.

Relation to a larger context

Bas Jan Ader / Abramovic / Scandinivian Films (dogma?) / Theatre of the everyday / Avant garde Cinema / Documentary / Minimalist art / Landscape Painting / Poetry / the Everyday / Psychoanalyse - Freud / Performance art

References

'Theatre & Everyday Life' by Alan Read
'Everyday Life and Cultural Theory' by Ben Highmore
'Essays on the blurring of life and art' by Allan Kaprow
'Tacita Dean' by Tacita Dean
Work of Bas Jan Ader
Work of Marina Abramovic
Films by Roy Andersson a Swedish director
Work of Peter Greenaway (videoprojections on paintings)

Context/Other works

[1]

(Bas Jan Ader – Nightfall)

[2]

(Marina Abramovic – Confession)

[3]

(Photo’s ‘Confession’)

[4]

(Roy Andersson – Songs from the second floor)

[5]

(Peter Greenaway – Drowning by numbers)

Keywords

Single fixed wide shots
Moving image
Literacy
Time
Landscape
Light
Humans
observation
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
Meaningless acts
Awareness / conciousness
Truth
Vulnerability
Purity
Perception
Circle
Physical
Psychological
Documentary
Film
Melancholic Atmosphere
Metaphor

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 Project proposal draft - Astrid van Nimwegen
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 == Tentative Title ==
-Ordinary life in an extra-ordinary context
+??Make the ordinary extra-ordinary??
 == General Introduction ==
-My strength is to recognize purity and melancholy in the images and frames that I record.
+Currently I am experimenting on  a series of moving images which consist of simple video’s of dutch landscapes seen from out a garage door which is opening first and closing again after two minutes.
-I want to collect long shots that can be seen as a collection of moving classical paintings.
+I record the same wide shot multiple times with a static camera.  You see leaves moving; the weather changing and the light in those different shots is never the same.
-Those frames will be the landscape or scenes for all kind of meaningless actions and thus become the stage of performance. The endurance of the shots is important in order to give as much attention as possible to every element in the frame.
-How the footage will form a totality by putting them in a sequence or in an installation is not clear yet. The only thing that I want to reach with my work at the moment is creating context. In a collection, the different shots will give each other hopefully the context that is fitting for my work and concept.
+[[Image:garage-cinema.jpg|450px|none]]
-So the island where I live will become the stage of ordinary actions which will become extra-ordinary by how and where I let them take place.
-The question what is staged and what not is an important one but more important is the portrait of living that I want to display and the search for truth/purity and meaning in this living.
-A brief general introduction or abstract laying out the field you wish to research, possible key questions driving what you want to explore and how you will test these questions through practice.
 == Relation to previous practice ==
-I always choose a particular 'frame' to record, the atmosphere of the frame can be described as Melancholic and refers very often to classical painting. That frame is carefully constructed with attention for composition and light and the sphere is used as a metaphor in order to create the melancholic, transient feeling. The frame becomes the stage for all sort of meaningless actions. In the past those actions were performed by me but now I mostly work with weird characters which I pick out of the people from the island where I live. Mostly these characters have already a typical way of living and are quite often 'outsiders' themselves. My intention is to mirror the viewers behavior and let him/her reflect on their way of living and the meaning of this living. In my older works I can see my own struggle with the meaning(lessness) of life but I my recent works I see that I have changed also and I see more and more the joy of the living and also the joy of giving meaning by what you do, but I am still very sceptic about it all and that is why there is a lot of contradiction in my videoworks. The
+In former works there always was too much going on, in this I missed the mode of attention from the viewer.
-How does your research connect to previous projects you have done?  Remember to briefly explain or describe related projects as the external is not familiar with your work.
+Endurance and repetition have always been important elements in my work.
+I want to reveal the complexity of life through the simple.
+The images which reveal complexity behind the simple are to be found in the everyday so I want to search in this everyday and use my intuition to find and recognize them.
+Maybe my most made mistake is to make the simple complex instead of the other way around and therefore a lot of older video’s I did not found convincing enough.
+== Practical steps ==
+In practice I am looking for other landscape video’s which speak in a way the same language as the garage door shots and my research is now to experiment with them further and search for a way to bring them together so that they can form eachothers context.
+Different ways to explore this are:
+-To bring them together in an installation or collection;
+-To edit them somehow in a linear timeline;
+-To show the garagedoor video’s in a cinema as a short before the featurefilm;
+-To project them in other landscapes;
+-To let some small gestures take place in the landscape to see if this can add something
+In theory I am currently reading 'Theatre & Everyday Life' by Alan Read and 'Everyday Life and Cultural Theory' by Ben Highmore.
+Of some chapters I want to write annotations and also want to describe work by Bas Jan Ader.
 == Relation to a larger context ==
-Meaning practices or ideas that go beyond the scope of your personal work.  Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project.  For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might talk about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets.  Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others.  (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase.  At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)
+Bas Jan Ader / Abramovic / Scandinivian Films (dogma?) / Theatre of the everyday / Avant garde Cinema / Documentary / Minimalist art / Landscape Painting / Poetry / the Everyday / Psychoanalyse - Freud / Performance art
+== References ==
+*'Theatre & Everyday Life' by Alan Read
+*'Everyday Life and Cultural Theory' by Ben Highmore
+*'Essays on the blurring of life and art' by Allan Kaprow
+*'Tacita Dean' by Tacita Dean
+*Work of Bas Jan Ader
+*Work of Marina Abramovic
+*Films by Roy Andersson a Swedish director
+*Work of Peter Greenaway (videoprojections on paintings)
-== Practical steps ==
-Describe how you will go about conducting your research through reading, writing and practice.  In other words, through a combination of these approaches, you will explore questions or interests you have laid out in your general introduction.  In this section you can help us understand how your project will come together on a practical level and talk about possible outcome(s).  Of course, the outcome(s) may change as your research evolves, but it's important to have some idea of how your project might come together as a whole.
+===Context/Other works===
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyXuiiO11U4]
+(Bas Jan Ader – Nightfall)
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNG7AsJd52A]
+(Marina Abramovic – Confession)
+*[https://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=marina+abramovic+confession&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1245&bih=670&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=pQVqUPPCDOOa0QW60oH4DQ]
+(Photo’s ‘Confession’)
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5M8Mgf50c]
+(Roy Andersson – Songs from the second floor)
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSW0hOqA4sk]
+(Peter Greenaway – Drowning by numbers)
-== References ==
-A list of references (Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed.  These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.)  As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.)  See: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing
+===Keywords===
-''Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal.  For example use images to reference your work or that of others.''
+*Single fixed wide shots
+*Moving image
+*Literacy
+*Time
+*Landscape
+*Light
+*Humans
+*observation
+*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
+*Meaningless acts
+*Awareness / conciousness
+*Truth
+*Vulnerability
+*Purity
+*Perception
+*Circle
+*Physical
+*Psychological
+*Documentary
+*Film
+*Melancholic Atmosphere
+*Metaphor