Some things Alistair said to me whilst half-cut last Friday: firstly, that I'm doing the right thing pursuing a theory based PhD, and secondly that, in the meantime, I cant forget that I'm still on a practice based MA course. My research proposal for said theory based PhD (90k words - I'm really in for it) has been passed and approved, my funding application (which everything is now hanging on) is in, so I've got a whole summer ahead of me to fill with practice. Here are my plans:
- Found abstracts: an idea thats been kicking around for a while, so I thought I'd do something with it.
- black and white super 8 films. an idea I had when I was thinking about hand processing some super 8 stock. I wanted, originally, to film out of a train window at night then process it as a negative, but Idont think this'll work because of reflections, so it might now be a film, still in negative, of streetlights and car headlights. In negative so the lights appear as black spots on a white and grey background. I might also make the film where I video west park at night using the night vision function on the camcorder; film looking into the park at night through the fence, then adding some kind of soundtrack. I recorded a conversation some people were having in the post office queue the other day, so maybe that.
- I'm still making films (a series of images with a soundtrack of some sort, a kind of stripped down montage), and I think this is the main contender for the degree show in september. Though I dont want to display it as a film as such. I want to separate out the images from the sound. I want to use slides for the images as I think there's something about a darkened room with a slide projector whirring away, along with recorded sounds, and I'd like to capture this in this work if I can. I'd also like to collaborate with Matt on this as there's common ground here.
- 12 Photographs (the Center of the Universe). Being the title of a project (see previous posts). I'm thinking that this will now be a book.
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