Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Starting today's session with Anneke, she introduced Dale Holmes, Ben Spatz and Roy Claire who are our guest speakers for this week. First up was Ben Spatz and his work 'Diaspora', a 31 minute video on a drama performance looking at Jewish song work. We were asked to watch this video at the start of the session and then we would reflect on the video in the class afterwards. Ben Spatz and his theatre performance in the Judaica lab (3/8/2017) on looking through his jewish identity through song work was something I've never seen before, the singing from Ben and the lady in the studio was beautiful and very powerful to watch, then going to seeing the artists creating work from the feeling of the songs was very creative.
Ben and the team of artists are finding a new way of storytelling through the jewish songs and the drama performance with Spatz's story telling over the top of the video along with his mother as the artist drawing with the charcoal and paper.
University of Huddersfield . (2021,3,2) Diaspora - Technique of embodied practice. Microsoft Teams.
Spatz looked into the methodologies and ontologies of embodiment and what embodiment is, how it is defined and what it creates for artists like himself. Looking into the mind and body of something meaningful and creative will always be his intention and to create this piece using theatre and performance.
Symposium of embodied art practice - Urban Research Threatre.
University of Huddersfield . (2021,3,3) Diaspora - Technique of embodied practice. Microsoft Teams.
Moving on to Roy Claire's talk that was quite quicker than Ben Spatz as she only had a 15 minute sound piece for us to hear, Claire's sound cloud piece started off very confusing and hard to understand for me. As the piece went on it became a little clearer as to what was happening and the piece started to reveal itself to us, talking of leather gloves and a man who was placing this glove over his hand, she was starting to stutter and lose breathe whilst speaking this piece and in the end I just felt lost as to what I was listening to. This is no way on the speaker and her work but my opinion whilst listening to the piece, I also felt like there should have been a trigger warning to this piece as did a lot of other students as it had a darker side to the script and sounded very unpopular. The issues in the piece for me were that I felt it was rushed even for a 15 minute sound piece, the rush in the words and the sentencing was wrong for me and as I say this is my opinion so others have different views of this, course. Overall, I felt less interaction personally to Claire's work than Ben's as to me it had no wow factor and characteristic to it and that is something I look for in creative artwork.
Claire, R. (2021, March 3). CHAVSCUMBOSS. ( ) [Audio podcast]. Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/royclairepotter/chavscumboss-coos-desk
Dale Holmes started his small talk on the body and mind after our break, he started by showing us a body graze of his leg that he managed to get by crashing on his bike on a piece of black ice. He then went through how that moment made him think about his mind and body and the relationship he had with his biking and mind and how this fall affected his body. Holmes then started to plan his journey from Emily Moor in Huddersfield to Berlin and it would take over 60 hours and 6 days for Dale to complete this huge ride.
University of Huddersfield. (201,3,3) Technique of Embodied Practice. Microsoft Teams.
Moving on, Anneke started her presentation looking at capturing bodies using scanners and sounds and space along with her work with the Bronte sisters and Virginia Woolf. Looking at how to scan bodies for layers and concepts and using image layers to create new imagery.
This was a small 20 minute talk on her work and where she creates her pieces on collaboratoin.
University of Huddersfield. (201,3,3) Technique of Embodied Practice. Microsoft Teams.
Today's session was very informative with a lot of information and guest speakers but a little confusing with big words being mentioned and Roy Claire's piece hard for me to understand.
I have enjoyed this week's lectures looking into the mind and body of imagery and how taking images can change my emotion or feelings of why I'm taking my images.
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