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Identity and institutions

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LAURIE ZUCKERMAN

imagery of alters created for art. Shrine imagery, the idea of worship.

http://www.lauriezuckerman.com

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“It’s very disappointing that women are often, if not always, put together,” the artist says, “but in many female artists’ work I notice a tendency to propose work that ‘sells.’ Selfies, self-portraits, body empowerment, body hair or girls being under pressure from social media, but they are lacking depth.” With the explosion of a new wave of lipstick feminism in music, the arts, and in our culture more generally, a once strictly political movement has been co-opted to fit commercial paradigms. ‘Feminist artists’ has become a clickbait term where the Taylor Swift and Beyonce's of the world can proclaim their love of feminism without offering any true insight, and perhaps this is being seen in the art world too. Lévêque says: “Maybe it’s from being submerged for decades in a collective unconscious hammering home that women are an object to be sold. There is no need for a half nude portrait, it’s like women are being told so much they have to be sold, that they end up selling themselves.”

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https://www.instagram.com/amaliaulman/?hl=en

Looking at the power of the image, how someones identity can be so easily faked in today society, with the internet, social media. Questioning what is your identity, what is real or fake? How having a popular self/ identity is easy if you follow the trends, but is it real your own or just a social construct?

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http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/50/overview/

Morones work considering the power of the individual in society. How corporations are taking our identity for there own benefit, how we need to own our own. Showing how the human is becoming a commodity. 

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This is more of a visual level. Looking at the type of collaging, somewhat shrine like imagery to the vapourware. 

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Zittels work looks at everyday to day living in a way that investigates social constructs and human nature. so it is not the actual physical work that corresponds with my own work but the ideas about the human and society, how they interact with each other. My interests is more about the human whereas Zithers work is about the objects and things that surround the human, so that the human in the work is the spectator. She uses herself so tryout her work, but it is for the broader human society. Not just about her but for everyone. Using herself to represent society. 

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Plastic Fantastique

Not so much the content of the work but more the way it is presented, considered. The grouping of many different medias leading up to the same ending. one subject, explored and portrayed through many different forms, then all grouped and shown together. 

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http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/qa/neil-beloufa-interview-53164 

“More and more in my practice, the items become the document. The films become more and more about fiction, and less and less about documenting. The objects ground the films now, here in front of you. It’s the same way that you look at your bed and your laptop when you watch a movie—they participate in that movie. When you watch a porn, you have the contrast of your shitty, empty bed with that utopia of easy sex. My work parasitizes life and brings your experience more towards how you relate to life in real time. My shows should be a mess, where you can decide what you want to look at. It’s about making a world without hierarchy.”

“I’m not a sculptor, I’m not a filmmaker. I’m an editor. I edit content, I edit voices, and I edit ideas. That’s how I work, and that’s how I try to build something that goes towards this direction.”

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Pippalotti Rist- Pepperminta

A feature length film, creating a new world. The main characters interaction with society and therefore the way she portrays herself. 

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PippaLotti Rist- Be nice to me

Self inflicted destruction of her looks, a simple actions to destroy the social acceptance of her appearance. 

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Rachel Maclean

http://rachelmaclean.tumblr.com/page/4

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Jennifer Mehigan- LIQUID SERIES

CESSPOOL

http://jennifermehigan.com/

Use of video, simplistic imagery, actions overlaid with effects. CESSPOOL: the use of the body as a central subject, the odd contrast but also connection between the original image and the overlaid effects. 

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Rachel Maclean “Germs”  

Using satire and exaggerated reality to comment on the pressures and influence society put on its population. playing on the beauty industry and its so called powers of persuasion and cures. Showing how easily people can be drawn in by what really sounds ridiculous, as by exaggerating the original idea, subject Maclean is able to point out the ridiculousness of what is being said. 

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Alex Da Corte

Simple placement, looking at how the figure react with an object. How can the object react to the bodies context, what is portrayed because of the interaction. What can the spectator take, interpret from the images?

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Grimes- Fresh without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream

The dressing of the video, exaggerated, colours. the extravagant dressing of it makes me think about a persons identity, it being her choice, not being concerned with social stereotypes or pressures of the music industry for a female artist. 

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Alex Da Corte

Looking at the spacial environment the spectator experiences when entering the work. The mixture of medias and material, creating a sensory environment that immerses the spectator. 

The space is the art work. The video relates to the space its in, becomes part of the physical environment, not just on the screen.