Plan for TUESDAY:

Lev 4/1 Crit start at 2pm 20 mins each

Assessment meeting for all lev 4 at 4pm

Lev 4/1 Bring in a sample only of previous work- as i have logged a lot of it at this stage.

Bring in ALL FILM WORK.Pin up your FINAL 3 large film prints triptych - and any other large ones also if room

Final three for the wall tuesday and all film back up work

*Judith will need to bring in all her work in for me to award an accurate grade as planned

*No need for your research files etc until summative assessment
The plan is that you walk home on tuesday eve knowing what grade you are at as a guide ( formative ) grade for the UNIT so far.

*any grade i give tuesday can go up or down again in Jan

Summative Assessment

Preparation for January summative assessments - still plenty of time

I will award you a formative grade in the final December critique - a guide to where you stand

We expect quite a substantial body of work for your summative assessments - especially as it is an assessment focused on your engagement, output and experimentation. The learning outcomes and assessment criteria are in your unit books for visual langauge. Look at your work so far and if you feel it is thin in terms of output and engagement with the brief ( object /respond ) then be more prolific this month to catch up. A mark over 40% is a pass and acceptable to me at this stage as most of you are new to H.E Art expectations and H.E assessment standards at Level 4.

Summative Assessment expectation for hand in is as follows

1. A body of work / Portfolio of all your visual work

Photography contact sheets - & selected best prints A3 mounted

All drawings and Mixed Media pieces

All roughs . sketchbooks / notebooks

2. Collate all your internet and reading research into files - a learning journal, you should have been printing out samples of contextual 'looking' and contextual background to your chosen subject and era / genre / context and how it relates to your own making.

Make a front contents page for file- and list of books read, films , exhibitions seen etc etc

3. Essay ; final summative hand in

Anamnesis

Anamnesis is a very old philosophical idea conceived originally by PLATO that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us.It has since become a medical term for a patients recollections

Unfruchtbare Landschaften, 1969

Black-and -white photographs, surgical instruments and graphite on bound cardboard
36 x 25 x 4.5 cm, 14 pages

Anamnesis The German experience:

Dresden 1945 after the Allied bombing and the resulting firestorm

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'In the closing stages of World War Two, Adolf Hitler and a number of leading Nazis committed suicide, while others ﬂed abroad, thus denying their victims the satisfaction of any natural or judicial redress. The war had seen terrible genocide committed by the Nazis against European Jewry, gypsies and dissenting religious and social leaders. These victims were made ‘other’ and, deemed superﬂuous, were exterminated. So after the war, many issues were left unresolved, the victims’ recourse to reparation, redress and compensation taking much longer than had the punishment of those of the perpetrators who were punished. Germany’s main act of contrition was to be largely through ﬁnancing the construction of industry for the newly created state of

Israel. Any intervention such as a debrieﬁng of the German public, as catharsis or panacea to the wounded collective memory, was not undertaken. Individual stories were not heard and personal narratives were lost. The victims did not have the opportunity to confront the guilty.This implied that they could not reintegrate with society in a shedding of their ‘otherness’. Those who were neither perpetrators nor victims were unable to deny their support of, or demonstrate their opposition to, the Nazi regime. Thus, the German people and their descendants became in a sense ‘post-other’ to themselves, and without forgiveness there could be no closure.' ( extract from the essay Anamnesis written by and with thanks to Ian Redelinghüys and Ingrid Stevens )

Music and Post WW2 Germany historical documentary - must watch: http://www.icrates.org/bbc-documentary-krautrock-the-rebirth-of-germany/

Brian Eno Imaginary Landscapes

for music sound and sense of place watch

link broken 2012

Lev 4/1 Project summative deadline Jan 013

Painter and Film Director Julian schnabel's Intro credits for the Film ' Diving bell & the butterfly'

Tuesday Meeting 1pm Lev 4/1

Imply & Emote

Meeting to brief your New task for B.A Creative Practice Level 4/1

Focussing on your strengths so far identified, I want you to progress your work by producing a set of visual RESPONSES to the sequential work below - and for December display in the foyer a final set of large scale trio of images

You can focus on your own current experiments from this Visual Langauge Unit or

In dialogue with lecturer Use any media - Digital, Painting Print mixed media, Drawing Photograph 3d pieces - textiles - etc

Outcome : Large Prints A0 to be made from best experimental work - using A1 Print bureau

The Claim Michael Winterbottom ( Michael Nyman )

Sans Solei Chris Marker

Stardust memories Woody Allen

A Single Man Tom Ford

The Debt John Madden

Drive Nicolas winding refn

Wings of Desire Wim Wenders

Paris Texas Wim Wenders ( music Ry Cooder )

The Return Andrey Zvyagintsev

Happy People Werner Herzog

The set films hold and evoke a multitude of emotive subtle and implicit content

joie de vivre, Fortitude, Displacement Paternity Metaphysics Security Insecurity Remembrance Loss Love Mortality Guilt Gender Transition Retribution Transience etc

The image must communicate and emote the themes in the films and complement the Film music also in terms of style ( listen to soundtracks - some by Nyman ( the Claim ) and Glass

*Remember, You have total license to develop your work into your own personal translations and responses using the films as starting points for inspiration and content.

'A Simple Man' by Tom Ford from Christopher Isherwood's novel is a film about the importance of the seemingly simple or smaller moments in life.

Visualise the themes via key words - make a word list and use a thesaurus - think laterally not literally

Please attempt to watch as many of the films in the next 14 days ? - and you must choose at least two from the following to work from;

Our MMU Library, City Library, Play.com, amazon uk, ebay and the high st shop CeX sell some of these for £3.00

There will be a formal Pin up peer critique deadline for end of Term mid december ( a formative assessment guide grade will be given by me ) this project will then run into January and summative FINAL assessment hand is in January

Translation:

A FAILED ATTEMPT TO PHOTOGRAPH REALITY

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy.

I had confused the appearances of trees and automobiles,

and people with reality itself, and believed that

a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph

of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will

never able able to photograph it and can only fail.

I am a reflection photographing other reflections

within a reflection. To photograph reality

is to photograph nothing.

by D. Michels

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Jean Bauby's 'Scaphandre et le papillon' ( Diving Bell & Butterfly ) The real 'locked in' man and his book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby

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D Y S T O P I A N novels

Recent commissioned artwork by MM for Anne Charnock new novel 'A Calculated Life' - view Anne's website here http://calculatedlife.com/pages/cover-art

Update: Anne may be coming in to give you a small talk on her novel and dystopian works in general

Level 4/1 Creative Practice Contextual Essay ; Lecturer; Mack Manning

*Please note this set essay brief is initially for My Mature Students in Cavendish building NOT for Macks Fine Art Holden / Righton Art History Contextual seminar group - though it is all helpful and inspirational so keep reading and you can do this one also if you prefer to ?

Choose format from:

Option Task: 1 circa 2k word count

Using your notes for the research on Einfuhlung and Duende incorporate and reference them in a 2k responsive essay on the Film 'Wings of Desire' key issues to address are ... What are the emotional and philosophical themes of the film and the protagonists and why is the location and geography so important ?

Naturally do not purely describe what happens in the film - this is descriptive - we need insight and reflection and reponses - only 'describe' narrative events when it is to illustrate a view or insight - and feeling . Blog it and images please - take or make your own images only ... no found images aloud this time

OR ... Option Task 2. Utilizing your previous notes write Two separate pieces 1k each - response to the Film and another on your Einfuhlung / Duende insights - post on blog and illustrate with images

Consider this quote from the late great Chris marker ( we will be looking at his work in December )

We have discussed the instinct factor(and you are reading Dr Winston's book )Building on your work so far this term consider the following for your essay.

Also read about Anselm Kieffer and Boltanki here - print this PDF off please; The German experience: Anselm Kiefer and Chris Boltanski

LINK BROKEN now 2012

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Anselm Kiefer

Auszug aus Aegypten (Departure from Egypt)

Anselm Kiefer (German, born 1945)

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JO SPENCE’S PHOTO-THERAPY

http://www.positive-magazine.com/culture/jo-spences-photo-therapy/

A highly original artist who led the way for many other women (and men) to address and take ownership of issues of the self and convey transformative experience in their work.'in communion with ones self' note that I quote Chris Marker and my seminar self.
In the 1980's I visited one of her early shows in London, it was very memorable in imagery and content. Her weight of subject made with humility and humor ( mm)

A recent show at SPACE to celebrate her life and work
http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/jo-spence-work-part-i-

SPENCE, Jo, « Transformations 2 », 1985, Creative Camera n°249, The Portraitive-Self in Context, september 1985

Lanugo Fur - Contextual Log

25.10.12

Anamnesis & Einfuhlung