Intentions – I intended to broadly investigate decaying museological practices through the study of inanimate wax figures. Paying close attention to surrealism; ‘the uncanny’, ‘estrangement’ and ‘the fixed-explosive’ whilst also situating my investigation in[…]
Month: March 2017
Photomedia | Final Images…
Space, Place & Narrative: “Decaying Museology | Performing Temporality” Most of my final images share a strong degree of consistency and style that is communicated through the aesthetics and methodologies to these images. Throughout my[…]
Photomedia | Project Summary
Project Summary | Quick Recap Here are a series of bullet points that touch on some of the things that have happened in my project so far… My project originally stemmed from initial research into[…]
Photomedia | Literature Review Draft
I plan to organise my texts thematically rather than chronologically also in a structure that focuses on the most important and useful sources because I feel that this best fits by project structure and development…[…]
Temporal Suspension | Artifice or Authenticity?…
This week… I conducted my final shoot which comprised mostly of human recreations and re-photography. I began by asking a friend to model for some shots, posing in ways that replicated some of my existing[…]
Museums; ‘Performing Temporality’ | Initial Proposal
Proposal Form – Initial Structuring Who/What: I aim to photographically investigate museological performances within heritage spaces. I intend to photograph waxwork models within historical constructions and dioramas, in order to examine the effects of these[…]
STEAM | Further Shoot
Fortunately this week, I was able to visit STEAM courtesy of a family member offering to take me, who was attending the model rail convention. I used this time to also re-visit STEAM’S wax[…]
Photographing Museological Practices | Research & Literature…
Photomedia Readings… Museological Practices & Immersion… Gunning, T. (1989) ‘The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectators and the Avant-Garde’, Wide Angle. Vol 8 (2/3). “Its unique power was a “matter making images seen.”[1] Cinema followed[…]
Project Development | Museum: Performing Temporality
SO FAR… Following my post-industrial photography shoot at STEAM in Swindon, I have decided to pursue a photographic exploration that examines museum media. When inside STEAM, I stumbled across elaborately constructed environments that featured incredibly[…]