GROUP TUTORIAL
- Michelle commented that it’s like something I could control but I couldn’t. I agree. Especially with the last photo, I want to show that I do hold the choice to put on the shoes and walk out, but I’m doing it because of the pain it’s gonna take to reach the shoes.
- Michelle also commented that HOME was a recreation. She found it interesting that I had different approaches to different ideas, comparing staged vs documentation vs performance to camera. Craig also commented about HAIR that photography is always a kind of performance in a way, and it’s hard to distinguish what point is documentation or performance. I agree with the point that HOME is a recreation & staged. I always recreate scenes to express certain abstract ideas because those ideas come to my mind before I visualise them. But to the point that HAIR can also be a kind of performance, I’m very confused. To me, it’s simply documentation, nothing performative. And the property of the work changes if it involves stage/performance, because the frustration/anxiety/worries is expressed through this unavoidable daily process. If it’s performed, it means it can be controlled, which conflicts the idea that it’s uncontrollable.
- Michelle mentioned it’s like rose and thorns. I don’t really think so because rose are more attractive than repulsive but I’m not trying to sure home is attractive. Maybe the first photo is a bit but it’s from the view of outsiders.
- Yuhui asked if I would shoot again to make the work more complete or polished. I don’t understand if she’s talking about the content of the work or the techniques of the photos. If I have new ideas of scenes for this work, I may shoot more photos. Technical wise, I know that they can be better but I don’t know if I want to spend more time to reshoot the same scenes.
- Michelle mentioned that maybe I could take home outside. I don’t think I want to make home in a real world as it’s an abstract idea so I want it to exist in an abstract space as well.
- About the FUTILITY idea, Michelle said it sounded like an alien, always shifting. I don’t really get the alien, but I agree with the shifting as my self-existence is just not stable.
- Craig said HOME made him think of dynamic tension. I don’t understand what dynamic means, though I do want to express the tension between my body and HOME.
- Michelle asked about my use of blog. I said it’s a way for me to organise my thoughts. And then later when I thought of it again, I suddenly thought of writing helped me connecting those loose/lingering words to sentences, paragraphs and then articles, which reminded me of the idea of FUTILITY, attempts to holding together fragmentary of ego to a complete self.
- Asked Mengran why she’s interested in people’s feeling during the pandemic. I guess it’s because I don’t feel affected by the pandemic and I never have really paid attention to others’ feeling in my work. But I don’t agree that everyone’s lonely or depressed because of the pandemic.
- Confused about post-humanism. I’ve never heard of this term before. I don’t understand Yunqiu’s intention about this idea.
- I don’t understand Yuhui’s opinion about Chinese “concentrating on fighting for one thing” and “underpaid workers”. These two aspects are very complicated to judge. She said she cared about the workers’ mental health. But how would she know how they felt as she was not a part? And how about those “high-paid workers”? Their mental health is not necessarily good, either.
- Very confused about all Crag’s work. It just sounds so complicated. I don’t understand what he wants to show about the folk magic and how he generated sound from the paintings.
- Don’t understand Yutong’s intention about showing the change of the way of communication. She said she thought it’s more positive. Then what’s the meaning of showing that?
HAIR SHOOTING DAY 28
Eva Wang 