the nature of my performance...

Throughout this project I have found myself concentrating mainly on the physical act of taking images. The way I have concentrated on seeing and moving through space and time as well as being able to photograph it has always led itself to a heavily conceptual piece of work; the images in a way become mere evidence of the performative act. The weakness of this use for the photographic image in relation to my work is that my 'act' is not punctuating enough. When looking at past conceptual work the performance aspects are often dramatic or resonate with a dry sense of humor. These attributes are exemplified in work these two works by Erwin Wurms and  John Baldessari.



erwin wurm- one minute sculptures LINK      and his       Instructions on how to be Politically Incorrect LINK

John Baldessari - throwing three balls LINK

The nature of these performances and the photographs dialect between them is ephemeral, the qualities of these images and the actions exist briefly and it is only through photographies capabilities that they can be captured. My actions are more spaced overtime, I am looking at how we move through space and time however I am also looking at how photography reacts to these elements as well. I am using the camera not as an objective recorder of action but as its own mediator within the process, it is as much part of the performance as I am. Therefore I need to question:

What I am doing with the camera? & What is the camera doing to SPACE AND TIME?

When using the camera I have been rotating the frame half the way, this gives the overlapping effect I was first interested in in a visual way however it also changes the distance between each image, it does something which the camera was not originally intended for. In not giving images space inbetween them this again distorts the spacial aspects of the photographs as well as the subject depicted. The overlapping gives the long panoramic image a sense of the sequential and also a kind of rhythm, when one of my tutors saw my work he said it had an almost music like beat to it because of the intermittent lines breaking up the photograph. SPACE BECOMES ENTWINED, overlapped, fragmented and distorted because of the way I  have chosen to use the Kodak Brownie. TIME BECOMES RHYTHMICAL  represented in a series of jargoned lines, chaotic yet controlled, layered yet still.

It is these basic principles that I believe I am investigating with my project;

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE MOVE THROUGH SPACE (this has to bear in mind the politics of space and its identity as different locations give of different characteristics)

HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO THE TIME IT TAKES US AND HOW IS THIS AFFECTED BY THE CONCEPTS OF THE CAMERA

HOW CAN THIS BE CAPTURED THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY

HOW WILL THE VIEWER REACT TO THIS CONCEPT (i suppose this quesiton corrolates with most photographic practice)