Gabriela being shot
10am
Tuesday
In response to a series of seminars on site/place/location, body, portrait/reputation we have been assigned groups to deliver 30 minute unassessed presentations to the rest of the group. Preparation began on Tuesday, continued today and this Tuesday we will all put forward our responses which should be an entertaining way to spend 6 hours.
Our group has been inspired by Frankenstein’s Monster as a result of Dave Hazels very entertaining talk on Art and Death. Today Gabriela shot (with a camera) Tomasz in the graveyard beside Mary Shelley’s tomb. The process was uncomfortable for Tomasz. The idea is to assemble photographs of sections of Tomasz shot by Gabriella around Gabriela by Tomasz so that she assumes his visual identity. Of course she will not but the act will allude to this. More interesting was watching Tomasz squirm as he was quite directly objectified by his female photographer.
After taking the shots we moved indoors where we used photocopies of cultural theory books in place of printed photographs to re-cloth Gabriela. In contrast Gabriela was very comfortable with this process despite the proximity of Tomasz throughout the procedure. There was a humour to it and Sam was reminded of games played as a child where you would wrap your friend in toilet roll. It was quite playful and it was not the first time I’d used Philosophical Theory of Culture for an alternative means.
