Final MA work…
Final MA show and abstract: Publication Date 07-10-20
So the work has been submitted (and marked!) I’m now working towards how to present the images, there’s still a plan for a show although with ever changing Covid restrictions that date is not fixed..
Either way I need to make a final selection of the work to show what is all about, because of the restrictions of viewing when submitting my final piece I came up with a set of Gifs that hopefully showed the process and the performance based aspects of the work* Do you separate the virtual from the actual?
Think I’d like to do an online show where the work is situated in a gallery setting where you can judge scale and curation and not simply a group of web pages, that is a skill I don’t have so it may be difficult to process so I’ll try and mock it up in images to show what I mean…..but then you have to take into account what the work will look like on a 13inch MacBook or phone screen which may play neatly into part of the referencing of the work (As you know by now that’s the new Topographics and as they all nearly worked on smaller scale and mainly in b&w obvs with the exception of Shore)
With the way time has elapsed this year you do ask if the work will still be relevant or has it been created in a vacuum where critique has been via a screen and played out as such. Will the work be relevant?
Then you think about it will be seen and the audiencing possibilities to consider are many and got me thinking about my reading last year where audiencing was being talked about.
Thinking Rancière. Thinking Audiencing. Thinking.
Also I will need to produce some words to feed into the work, how many words when you’ve (hopefully) done such a wide ranging piece..
At the moment it goes like this.
“Mum needs a new microwave”
Familiar spaces viewed anew due to a starvation of landscapes.
Familiar as in I’ve seen these spaces before throughout my life they touch on petroaesthetics, random and alcohol. The wonder is what will happen to these spaces going forward. If I photograph them they are frozen in time so forever held in a frame.
Does that work?
What does the viewer think?
If you read that and look at the images what do you think?
While this is all now coming to a close reflecting on this process I had a thought that so many people will not get this work and what it’s about from the initial imagery it will take text, explanation to stitch it together, typical Nathan not producing standalone imagery plus it’s possibly too clever for it’s own good which I’ll talk about in the another blog called
“…I can’t take nice pictures”
Thank you reading
Had a new thought on presenting after some time reflecting that maybe it needs a Publication. It may be the way to round it all off successfully and to show it as a coherent body of work.
*The work is about how we look at space, the familiarities of differing spaces and what we see. There is also a subtext about the nature of photographic projects and practices: touching on the repetition of visiting a space and photographing in different styles, whether film makes any difference. Hopefully it also illustrates a comparison between how we look at spaces and how we look at imagery. There are also a few other things but think that’s enough to load on for now.