Tutorial 7 – 30/1/2018
- Need 10 supervisor sessions ideally
- Should contextualise what I’m doing using other people’s practices; this will inform as to how I can carry out my research
- Will strengthen the package of what I will be creating
- Clothes & family connections?
- Clothing & how we use it to communicate with each other
- Clothes swapping
- History of clothing is too broad
- Should be researching theory of clothing
- Interim report: commentary on research; how I’ve carried it out & used it in my own work
- sustainable-fashion.com/projects/
- Research: Opening up the Wardrobe (book)
- There are a range of clothes online
- Research should be uploaded onto blog/website
- Good understanding of the form
- Timetable in a supervisor session for next week (if needed)
- Seminars, exhibitions, authors, people of importance, books, internet
- Do I want to do an MA in Fashion?
Tutorial 8 – 23/2/2018 (Feedback on Test Photoshoot)
- Sitting on end of bed is a good shot
- There needs to be more engagement with the participant and a process of exchange
- Photos are a formal way of establishing relationship with participant in the image
- Participant & researcher in same image would be better
- Need a tripod and remote
- Different relationship with each participant in their images & how I can convey that
- Karl Ohiri's In My Mother’s Clothes uses different (traditional) signifiers, e.g. wearing mum’s shoes vs boyfriend’s shirt
- Device of the mirror brings more out of the encounter
- What am I photographing? Think about this – the clothes, interaction/issues surrounding the interaction
- Intimate space – voyeurism?
- Peep show machine inside a wardrobe with photographs
- Theatrics – hand out tickets for my display/exhibit
- Research: Johannes Vermeer – Girl with the Pearl Earring painting
- Wardrobe + pinholes or peep show
- Cosey Fanni Tutti – puts the audience in a position of voyeurism
- Booklet & comments book
- Research: Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July
- Research: Sophie Calle – book of letters
- Research: Clothes, theory, body, gender identification as semiotic took – Judith Butler
- Give context of practices, theory, industry that engages with people around personal things, eg. identity and clothes
Tutorial 9 – 22/3/2018 (Feedback on Photoshoots)
- Straightforward
- Rooms give trouble
- Sole – good choice of subject
- No peripheral items should be in the shot
- Did Sole also wear my clothes?
- What do I want to communicate in these photos?
- What am I hoping to get out of wearing other people’s clothes/what do I want to convey?
- Inhabiting their clothes – understanding them and their guise
- Gone into their space – important part of pictoral language
- Self-conscious – need to get past that
- Really straightforward ones work for David
- Not enough of Ruth in her photos
- Get them to take photos of me to gain an understanding of the process, then come up with ways to be in the same photo together??
- Less clutter, more colour
- Mirror is a good system
- Exhibition piece: collage wardrobe with photographs
- Infinite regression of a piece of clothing – mirrors all inside
- Create a prototype/small model of the exhibition
- Mirrors are really working – they make internal frames – this creates relationship with participant more effectively
- What do I feel when I wear their clothes?
- Email photos in low resolution to David to check
N.B. Not all suggestions were pursued, and not all tasks were carried out.