NSSN anticuts campaig (I didn't lay it out but helping to develop content and raise profile of site and campaign). Added this little word JPEG for peoples profiles, to try and quickly raise the profile of the date online, in social networking sites, ours and that of those involved.
And I don't quite know what I have done with it all.. well this week and a bit of last week has been working on a communications strategy for the NSSN anti cuts campaign. And its great to be involved in and also have people to work with and engage with. In fact, that's probably the key to it all!
I need people to work with, that I can rely on and that will rely on me, so I get something done rather than wallow about from one site to another..but often in denial at taking the risks that would show that my skills are poor, my world view is wide and generalised and the things I want to do, I sometimes get a chance to do. ..However poor or questionable they are.
Today I see my supervisor again, been a while, since Dec I think, but I couldn't have met any earlier and truly, I am not that prepared. When I have been, I have been able to make the most out of the process. The intelligent, challenging but deeply and insight fully supportive discussion. I am very lucky!
But I have questions, is this worth my while? The money, the remote nature of the process and structure. Its not enough. Its not enough for me.. I think. But I could develop a team, maybe Sophie for some Liverpool shoots and narrative challenges. Lisa for similar but the edit and discussion. Pete for additional footage, linking in the Liverpool experience and also
I can get more 1--2-1 as I work along through text
- 6-8 tutorials
- 4-5 meetings with specialist tutors
- kit?
- post kit and ideas
- some sitting in on a few units - Photography, video portraits,
- some collaborators? Ex students - you need a synopsis. Time is running short..
My supervision notes:
ReplyDeleteMy notes partly for memory and action:
a) check fees prince
b) Photography contact Daniel and Paula R for module
c) Deadline in next 3 weeks to make decision
d) Theory considerations - Political action, popular front and united front, Marxist praxis, relationship of past 80's ways of working and today (inc student actions).
Consider Marx & Engels and technology
Role of New technology and social networking, questioning development around movement of Eygpt, face to face contact.
Has Praxis changed with new media? And has that impacted on consciousness?
'Do we believe the rhetoric that social networking will do it for us? .. Masks class consciousness and alienation'
- Social movement theory Italian scholars
- Print press and Frankfurt school 1916 set up free uni US Walter Benjamin (Art in age of mechanical reproduction) & considerations of 'Aura of original'.
- Ideology of literacy Walter ONG 84, trained to read values, privilege of language
- Consider 'we do things with technology'.. it also does things to us. Trained to sit at screen for hours' engagement. 'Conciousness of production' .
Examples of liveness, door knocking, supervision, carnival against cuts, inspires next action.
- Importantness of LIVENESS and spontaneity
- 'liquidity of email .. water travels so fast'
- how do you express, visualise process?
- Phillip Cross poetry WATER
Project:
Sound without visual
use of gallery? event?
visual and noting those who wish not to be represented.
'Carnival hall of mirrors'
Smashed glass and layers
Water and constant movement - key image throughout pieces