coucou la page de Vasco

coucou la page de Vasco

JOUR 2 - Qu'allez-vous observer, concrètement, dans votre recherche ? 

Azoulay and photography

https://www.guernicamag.com/miscellaneous-files-ariella-aisha-azoulay/

Photography was invented as an imperial practice and it was thus a productive practice—geared toward the production of images, and, in a broader sense, commodities. This valorized photography’s products, meaning photographs, and enabled the undisputed use of others’ free labor—those being photographed—as raw material.

"Rather than engaging with such photographs as documents that, as a scholar, I’m expected to study and interpret, I approach photographs with pens, scissors, and tape in order to break the spell of the photographic document."

"To fight the ideology of the distant gaze, I’m experimenting a lot with images. Here, for example, is a series of drawings that I traced as a way to bypass the regime of copyrights. It is another cropped image."

Why does Azoulay do this:

- Copyright issues.
- She wants to analise what is not in the image , she wants to "abstract" what we can see so we can think about we cannot see
- She does not want to continue to reproduce photographs that were taken without the persons consent , that framed/labeled the person without their concent (i dont have reference for this, im basing this on what i heard from her in a podcast, but she didnt say this exactly)
- She does not want to use the description automatically (and sometimes legally) attached to the image , so she uses these processes to avoid using the description provided , to propose another description

How does she do it:

- she crops images
- she draws the image
- she puts some semi-transparent paper to somewhat obscure images
- she cuts images (she mentions scissors some times), she uses tape, but I did not find examples of this , except the use of tape for framing

Vasco n'est plus fatigué.
Il décrit les images qu'il a mis sur la page.
Parfois il a rencontré des problèmes de copyrigh.
Toutes les images sont issues d'un article linké dans la page.

objet de recherche: “News From Home”, Chantal Akerman, 1977.

pourquoi?, in short

i am very interested, slightly obsessed, with the way akerman's voice gets drowned by the sounds of passing cars, of the subway. how her reading voice is monotone, how the sounds of the cars contrasts with this.

protocole d’observation:

first viewing observing with a protocol, i take notes. specifically:

(camera column)
- when the scene changes;
- if the camera is still (locked, l-), if there's a pan (pan).

(ambient column)
- i consider the low huming of the city+the pelicule the "base". note sounds that i consider LOUD with the time they occur+LOUD. if it's lower than LOUD, but higher than the "base", i write MID. what is "base", LOUD and MID is my decision, a personal decision.

(reading)
- i note when akerman is reading her mother's letters.

some results while observing the first 13:31 of the film:

équipe théorique:

- Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
- José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
- Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure
- Sara Ahmed, Vandalisme Queer