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soundtrack High Tide by Eartheater
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song - Light Luxury by Aisha Devi
Group - Isabel, Isabel, Jessica
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soundtrack 2 deep ft. junglepussy - Suzi Analog
group - isabel, isabel, jessica
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Gallery Project
For the photo critique assignment, I viewed Betwixt and Between at the Laurence Miller Gallery. The gallery feels tucked away, on an upper floor of a building full of galleries next to the High Line. You have to take an elevator to get in (unless you like stairs a lot), and it opens into the gallery space. The space is modest and the exhibition begins immediately on the walls outside the elevator. There is no clearly marked starting point, the images are hung on all the walls in the ‘lobby’ and display room. There was no receptionist on duty, and both gallery staff members were discussing work together in their glass-walled offices, leaving me to browse in peace. The atmosphere did not feel particularly reverent, as some gallery spaces might through their lofty spaces and lighting. The ceilings were relatively low and the whole photo room was brightly lit and quiet, no spotlights were needed on the photos. The works were not framed with any kind of consistent approach, some had white frames, others black, and images of different sizes were mixed throughout. I first walked around the whole space and looked at everything without reading the information. In this first approach, no theme was apparent to me, and had I not known better I wouldn’t have even assumed it was a cohesive exhibition. No narrative seemed to emerge as I walked through, although many of the images were compelling, they seemed to differ quite widely, and had different photographers. Then, I read the pamphlet with exhibit information, which revealed the context behind some images. While their backgrounds are wildly different, many images (at least those with information provided) challenge our ideas of reality, show people caught in the middle of contradictions or political moments, and question our perception of the images themselves in a present day context. They all intend to emulate the ‘Betwixt and Between’, dictionary definition “not fully or properly either of two things”. I would have liked more backstory for the images and analysis, but that’s always my feeling in art spaces. The exhibit showed images with a compelling presence and curious backstory, capturing the in-between, I mostly wish I found out more about each photo and artist from the exhibition.
My favorite works on display were by John Dowell. His “African Union Church”, 2018, shows a church located behind a field of cotton in Seneca Village, the integrated community of free African Americans located from 1825-1857 in what is Central Park today. Seneca Village was the largest community of African American landholders in NYC in the 19th century. http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/seneca-village-site.html
Seneca Village ceased to exist in 1857 when it was leveled by right of eminent domain to make Central Park. This image by Dowell is not just a photo like many of the others on display, it is a collage or visualization of an alternative universe, one that symbolizes freedom. ‘African Union Church’ shows a field of cotton before the church, and an abstract fire/explosion of cotton bursting forth from what would be the steeple of the church. The image is relatively symmetrical in composition, and your eyes are drawn upward from the field to the church to the outpouring. The image has a pleasing texture from the collaging and the sketching done on top of the more photographic elements. The fire feels intense, like the mourning of what was lost in Seneca Village combined with the all-encompassing legacy of what it’s destruction represents. The metaphors and hypotheticals brought up by this image are powerful.
John Dowell’s other work on display, “Williams and Neighbors of Seneca Village”, shows more traces of the former community, with the home of the first settler Andrew Williams outlined by pieces of cotton and sketched lines. This image is more grounded in contemporary reality, with the modern road and lights of Central Park curving through the background, and a biker and woman picking up her dog’s poop pictured on the trails, positioned as if the woman is casually aware of the fictional home, too. This image is less symmetrical and intuitive than the other by Dowell, but contains an interesting juxtaposition, and question, through the interplay of modern and historical, hypothetical.
Hillary Swift, Racoons, Central Park, NYC, 2018
I really love this image. It’s almost unreal, something you’d be astonished if you saw. A family or pack of raccoons peering out from the greenery onto the road in Central Park, with buildings towering over them in the background. It looks like they’re trying to cross the road, checking the coast is clear. The composition and moment captured is incredible, the image is divided into thirds in a subtle way, each telling a different story: the city in the back bustling on, the mysterious greenery holding who knows how many other creatures, and the family of raccoons on the road, navigating the modern city obstacles that have encroached on their habitat. The image is very literal in its perspective of reality but the content is rich with room for interpretation.
Denniz Darzacq, Hyper No 3:
Note: I didn’t remember to take photos of all the pictures I wanted to discuss in the gallery so this is a screenshot from the gallery’s website.
This image quite literally depicts the magical, and the in-between/suspended state of ‘Betwixt and Between’. No background context is provided, but the moment of suspension captures the imagination. It actually even reminds me of a still from a Tik Tok video. The banality of the surroundings, the grocery store meat cabinet, enhance the surreality and alternative reality-like quality of the image. The lighting and colors are dull with the dreary cast of fluorescent lighting, giving a realistic look, in turn making the mystery of the picture even greater. The body is positioned in a sort of perpendicular or slanted manner to the ordered lines of the background grocery ceiling, cabinet, and floor, the body standing in opposition to the ordered and meticulous background of consumption. Based on online searches about Denis Darzacq, his work frequently uses the body to explore precisely these contradictions between humans and our modern environment/system.
All in all the exhibition was interesting, seeming a bit random at first, but upon digging into the history of all the artists work ties to the theme of ‘Betwixt and Between’ were obvious.
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Soundscape #2
20 min soundscape, from my balcony in Bushwick near the J & M trains.
M train passing on my left
truck engine going down the street and into the distance
wind
cars down the street
kids playing and shouting and screaming
truck engines on the side roads near me
birds chirping
airplanes going by every few minutes behind me, right to left
distant sirens to the left
Neighbor’s gate shutting
trash cans closing
speakers shaking car trunk (and speaker sounds)
dog barking
car alarm
motorcycle
skateboarder on street below me going right to left
train on right (J)
sirens
train on left (M)
birds coming from the right side somewhere
sirens
car tires spinning fast
kids laughing and playing, ongoing
J train to the right
car going down the street, right to left (one way)
some metal banging in the distance
train on J track going into manhattan (coming towards me)
neighbor’s car starting and pulling away
honk
engines, maybe a motorcycle
clanging of J train on the tracks
another neighbor’s gate
airplane overhead
M train on my left
(written in order of noticing, but most of the sounds like cars and sirens and engines were extended and overlapping )
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Description of sounds heard for first soundscape a few weeks ago.
Washington Square Park:
Primary sound, person playing saxophone
Dog nails clicking on cement passing by
Drums in background and cheering of crowds of tourists gathered watching performers
Bugs chirping and birds
Feet on concrete, buckles from bags and shoes and clothes jangling
Bits of conversations walking by
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My mashup of ‘Metal Windows’ by Roberto Cacciapaglia and audiobook excerpts from ‘Infinite Detail’ by Tim Maughan
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image recreations
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third image has no original because I chose one (madonna & britney) that wasn’t ideal for re-enactment... So we made up a new scene:
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Gestalt Principles
Closure
In Voluptate Mors, Salvador Dalí & Philippe Halsman, 1951.
can’t post pic because of breasts, but here are others in same vein
Today And Tomorrow, 1908 by HM Rose.
Die geheimnisvolle Badezelle, circa 1905-1910.
http://mag.metamythic.com/metamorphic-skull-illusions/
Common Fate
pic by me
Figure-Ground relationship
Humans of NY FB June 20
Humans of NY FB Aug 27
Good Continuation
Gaboon viper in wild - camouflaging
pic by Heinrich Van Den Berg
Proximity
Mockup of Tesla Model 3 UI. Shows some related elements grouped together, others overlapping, etc.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/03/curious-about-teslas-unique-model-3-in-car-ui-check-out-this-mock-up/
Similarity
Flounder, South Carolina Aquarium
https://scaquarium.org/our-animals/southern-flounder/
Uniform Connectedness
The Ableton Push uses color coordination (as does Ableton) to help visually separate which ‘track’ is which sound. The push then denotes the ‘root key’ in the same color. Each colored key is C in this example, going up or down an octave based on height. This helps keep track of where you are in the scale, and makes playing notes an octave up or down easier, you just transpose the pattern.
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