mobile

melanie: art camp, yes please! i think it is a good idea to incorporate the locality of where the exhibition takes place into the piece. and to make it mobile. if we make a sort of diagrammatic structure of the project we could have a changeable parts (variables) that are dependent on the exhibition town/city.

susanne: where are you?

gabriella: beautiful pictures! are those the ones with the macbook? i can't wait to see the medium format ones. what were you up to in tuscany?

jorun: it's been about 470 days since i last saw you. :-(



every that camera i own (super8, nikon dslr, flip video, video dv, tiny digital canon, AND even macbook) has either broken down completely or begun to malfunction quite often, all during the past month.
of course this all happened just after graduation, so i no longer have access to the school cameras. this has greatly changed the way i work. i now have to rely either on generating images through the computer (in after effects or sketch up) or by using the camera on my cellphone.
i visited LA a couple weeks ago for the first time. i travelled to the desert and saw some truly fantastic things that i could not sufficiently capture. it made me think about the frustrating moment that happens quite often when visiting a new place and being in a state of wonder. the optical properties of lenses and putting a frame around your view are incapable of capturing your state of amazement.









[figure 1,2,& 3: a rainbow stretched across the entire mojave desert for a brief moment. i was lost on a dirt road trying to find a hot spring. it was an awe inspiring moment, that was impossible to capture. these photos were taken with my cellphone]

Being in a new place is not necessarily acting as a flaneur, is it? that is more the role of a tourist. A flaneur is more of an acutely aware urbanite, scrutinizing his own city. not necessarily in a state of amazement and awe, but more in a critical state of mind- attempting to unpack the details of his surroundings, rather than capture the panoramic landscape.


-lily

character - development

jorun, i like your suggestion of developing a single character.
i think that is an interesting way of fulfilling what was discussed a while ago of having a unified group show. where the difference between artists is hard to distinguish, and instead forms an unstoppable eclectic force.

i'm at a loss as to how we can develop this as a group on a blog.
let's all meet at my house on friday to discuss. new york, ny.

-lily

shall we decide and diagram a structure that we can all begin to fill in?



-lily

Hello Ladies!!!

Just back from Tuscany, Italy. What a wonderful time...

Made many new pictures with my middleformat-camera. I will develop the films this thursday. Junst wondering....

Sometimes I was on the road with my Mac-Book and took some pics with the photobooth-programm, without seeing anything because it was so sunny. But I was acting as a flaneur and I wanted to it by the way. And though the eyes of a female beloved girl.

I like the idea doing an art-piece together. Nice! An art-camp: what a nice thing Mel!

As soon as I get the pics I will put it in here.

Now everything is growing. Like that!

Hugs

Gabriella

love it!

melanie! all your ideas sounds great! I really like the idea of the exhibition flaneuring aswell (going from place to place), and it could be like chapter one, two etc... in the same way I flaneur travels from place to place and developes during the journey! I also like the idea of the exhibition developing during the exhibition time, I will work like this on this years exhibition at my school. I will write about that in my next post!

It feels like we're finally getting somewhere!

/jorun

for me the idea of slipping into the role of female flaneurs sounds
very temptating,
each one of us could start to collect in their city, surrounding,
pictures, drawings, ideas... and the blog could be the cupboard, or
the table to gather all of the collected things. a flaneur is in a way
a hunter too. an urban hunter. let's start to discuss about this very
subject!
we, or someone of us should then maybe start to write a concept for
this project to present to different art spaces.
gaby and i could as well find one here in switzerland... ? if it turns
out to work in sweden we could move on with it to switzerland... or do
something like part two over here. which i'd like when we choose the
figure of the flaneur... cause our project itself would wander.

maybe it coul be great to produce toghether, just shortly before the
exhibition in a week's "camp" or something like that, or maybe we
would all work inside the exhibition so that in the beginning, the
opening, there is nothing but us and during the time of exhibition we
would let our project grow toghether... so we would be in there and
one could watch the piece growing.
i like the idea of showing the process to the viewer.
so blog for collecting, developing, discussing.
exhibition for building.
?
have a beautiful sunday!
*m

let's go!

I am glad that you like the idea Lily! what does everybody else think of it? do you think we could work like that? I also feel that we could develope the idea of the female flaneur more and maybe make a group art piece about that, we could all start something about that "character" or "image" and maybe post something that we think we would like to do, and then maybe see how it can fit together? should we invent a character or should we ourselves (pretend to) become flaneurs? Let's do something or decied on something!

/jorun