MONDAY
Reminder: Pay for Field Trip on Eventrbrite
Meet Friday 9:30 at Bus Loop! See itinerary for details
*Reading notes due on blog
Sal and Ava – 2023
Assignment: One Feat, Three Ways video project
Video Art: One FEAT, Three Ways*
You will work with a partner to make three videos less than 2-minutes each in length each.
Your videos should be shot at the studio in controlled, illuminated conditions.
Pick your FEAT. You will repeat variations on your “FEAT” in each video below.
Your FEAT should be an everyday gesture or activity that you can push to its limits. Push yourself to your limits. Push a material to its limits. Do not take ANY risks with your safety – subtle, quiet, funny risks are better and more interesting anyway. Just watching someone smiling as long as they can as hard as you can is fascinating and even painful to watch for its duration.
Examples of gestures from past students include: Eating something, Juggling, Kissing, Blowing up a Balloon, Smiling, Holding an Awkward Pose, Reaching for Things out of Reach… etc.
It might be an absurd thing – something pointless, or an impossible feat that you can’t actually do
The object is to try to do the thing, not to “act” – and what happens… happens!
You, your partner, or someone else may perform. Maintain your concentration and explore how a simple gesture becomes interesting when performed with commitment and intention.
NOTE: Add a title to each video, and videos should be approximately 1-2 minutes in length.
Video #1: The One-Shot
The video will consist of “one shot” – there will be no editing, other than a black screen to mark the beginning and end of the video. You may focus on camera function, unusual points of view, and framing. You will also add titles and end credits to your videos.
Video #2: The Sequence
The object of this video exercise is to shoot a series of shots with the intention to edit them into a sequence. It may require 5 minutes, an hour, a day, or a week, and you can show it in a series of stills or a time lapse. Edit your footage to be less than two minutes.
Video #3: The Loop
The object of this video exercise is to create a video that is meant to be played over and over again indefinitely, without stopping. Consider the content of the video when you are shooting your feat, and use looping to complete the meaning of the work. Don’t make a short GIF type video – think of a longer loop – something that could play in a gallery on repeat without end.
Edit your loop footage to be less than 2 minutes long, and then play on a loop for the critique.
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Videos will be graded by the degree to which students demonstrate:
- Understanding of the key concepts in the assignment
- Clarity and originality of ideas
- Investment of time and contributions to the group
- Focus in performance and intentionality about everything in the frame
- Technical success using lighting and professional camera equipment in works, and technical success using editing software and exporting gallery-quality video
- Presentation and openness to feedback during critique
Students are also expected to post a final work (including any revisions after critique) to the class blog with a title, artist names, and a short description of the work within ONE WEEK of the critique for final marks.
Videos will not receive a grade until a work is posted on the class blog.
Video Artist references:
- Yoko Ono
- Bruce Nauman
- Adrian Piper
- Pipilotti Rist
- Michelle Pearson Clarke
- Lee Walton
- William Wegman
- Jon Sasaki
- Camille Turner
- Marina Abramovic
- Kelly Mark
- Euan MacDonald
- Wood and Harrison
- Erwin Wurm
- Maria Hupfield
- Student examples
**Be safe and respectful to yourself and others at all times! Talk with me if you have any questions about your project. Never perform unsafe activities for your projects in this or any class in Studio Art.
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Lecture: Simple Instruction Videos
Reading and exercise:
Turning the Gestures of Everyday Life into Art, Katja Heitmann
Movement workshop:
(from Yoga, and dance)
Habits of of movement exchange:
- Describe the habitual movements/unconscious gestures, tics etc. of 3 people you know well. How do individual body parts move, and how does the whole body interact? What about facial expressions, and emotional valence of the movement? How does body type inform the movement?
- WARM UP EXERCISE all together – breathing, bouncing on knees, shaking it out, breathing together.
- Teach your partner one of the choreographies. Rehearse, and record 30 seconds of video of each performance.
- CHANGE PARTNERS. Repeat – Teach another partner another choreography. Rehearse, and record 30 seconds of video of each performance.
- CHANGE PARTNERS. Repeat – Teach another partner another choreography. Rehearse, and record 30 seconds of video of each performance.
At the end, you should have three, 30-second videos of other students performing an archive of movements. Use this footage for your editing workshop.
WEDNESDAY
Field Trip Reminders: Make a short blog post describing and reflecting on TWO artworks you were interested in from the field trip including images. Please pay for your trip on the Field Trip Eventbrite Link.
More examples of student videos:
(SEE DESKTOP for 1 minute examples – lemons, hugging, denim…)
Avery – Bubble Gum videos
https://experimentalstudio.ca/extendedpracticeslevel1/2023/01/17/avery/
Discuss ideas with partners, and with Diane
Camera and Lighting Demo with Nathan
STUDIO BOOKINGS, DISCUSS IDEAS AND WORK TIME
See Nathan to book studios and lighting, and for technical and camera assistance.
Talk to Rachelle for bookings in the Photo studio – in 406