Monday 20 January 2014

TOP presentation in Tate Britain


Sunday 19 January 2014

Diane Arbus &Bill Brandt

Bodily Photographs

weird bodies







Parts of bodies







I started working with drawings after I tried to make collages, some sculptures and moving images. I realised that only drawings wasn't working for me in a lot of particular ways and I was going through this sort of quest to understand my own identity and my artistic identity as a daughter or a friend to the history of myself. I was so into using sexual and excretory images. I wanted to find out why I did so. There was a huge flood of information that was living back there in my mind. In a way the cut parts of bodies was a result of a practice and also the result of this had me removing something from the whole and then I have got separated from the whole.

On the basis of ideas prompted by psychoanalytic thinking, I am on the process of describing the ideas elaborately considering aspects of methodology and dealing with various materials. For instance, by using images of partly cut human bodies, I tried to think of a relation between subject and abject. Separating my self who feels pathological shame over sexuality from the image that is not cut out allows me to make an image of resistance against the subject in which in spite of incomplete images looked uncomfortable, I cut parts of bodies that provoke sexual arousal to be looked free from taboo. Therefore, spectators in front of the collage I have done ultimately feel comfortable and acceptable. Strangely enough, incompleteness of images can associate with perverse sexuality. There are images of body’s leaking, splitting or decaying as excretory functions. Such desire related to dirty things could allude to resistant images to something repressed.

shame

shame

The emergence of shame in the course of analysis and in life occurs in the context of the relation with the analyst or with people. the emergence of the feeling, as it happens with telescoped childhood memories, is the result of extraordinarily complex processes the nature of which cannot be ascertained without considering its genetic, structural, dynamic and transferential components organized as present shameful perceptions of something happening in the analytic moment itself.

Freud discussing the sexual theories of children, says that , once they become aware that the father inserts his penis into the mother, their ignorance of the vagina leads them to believe that /if the baby grows in the mother's body and is then removed from it, this can only happen along the one possible pathway

Before referring to gender difference in the evolution of the sense of shame, it seems important to re-emphasize that the anal organization and the way it develop is strongly influenced by the oral organization that precedes it, and neither the origins of shame nor of disgust can be considered without reference to that earlier phase.

Freud speaks of  the role of shame and disgust in the inhibition of sexuality, and thought this took place earlier in little girls than in boys. Whatever the truth of the matter, the cloacal concept of the genitals may, in girls, be anatomically reinforced, may have a strong bearing on the close tie with shame, and has been subject of repeated comments in the literature.

Intensity of shaming parental and social influences, the recognition and awareness of physical and psychological disabilities and insufficiencies and since the body may be said to have started it all - childhood illness felt to be of shaming or disgusting kind.

Presentation plan (Territories of Practice)


The idea
 'exquisite Corpse'

Here is a basic YouTube exams of the idea



We used this same method during the meeting to do the same thing using writing instead of drawing (as we did not want to do a normal presentation.)

Each person took in turn to write a line of thought from their notes (doesn't need to make too much sense but a short thought or a note you wrote). The next person would respond by writing another line in response to that line from their notes. As you can see they connect VERY vaguely and we did it very quickly.

so that it seems quite abstract but when we said it out loud after it sounded like a wonderful abstract poem full of thoughts that tie together in our subject.

Here is the corpse written by people in T.O.P group


Curious objects resonate like a fetish of this world and another

This could be reflective of the aesthetics of anxiety

Obsessive obsessive obsessive ,                                                                                                                                            without an obsession.

Triggered by unpleasurable tension

Alienation to a field of sequences

Fissuring the distribution of the sensible

Once the expansion of veins start, everything starts to deteriorate and fade

Suggestions of the body, creating an alternative universe of recognisable objects

The fallacy of considering two things to be the same merely because they have attributes in common

They cant choose when to stop, they can never choose when to stop

Monkeys having sex transported to another world

The animal body crawls like my instinct

What is going to happen to me here?

Is here right now or did I think it?

It is not the ceiling that usually exists with the aim of transforming it

Time as movement within a wave

Comets drop as we fall unconsciously into bloom

Sinking into the bouquet, it brings me to my 8 year old self.

In the absence of clear boundaries, bodily traces are inscribed in the spaces that do not exist.

And it seems obvious that something should be frightening precisely because it is unknown and unfamiliar

There must be a necessity to feel labouring.

But where is the line between the pleasurable and unpleasurable

But where is the line…..

where is the line…..

The line widens.. a void of repulsion and desire..we slip in

Where is the line…..

A barrier between fragile self and shaming intrusiveness

Watch how things work then they fall apart

Alone, I am brought back to her body

It entitles me to heaped teaspoons of dignity and self awareness

Looking at something, being encouraged to occupy other ideas and thoughts

The drive to create is often fuelled by a combination of personal and existential issues

A Negative feeling arising from the experience of human freedom and responsibility

The responsibility of the visual provokes bewilderment but holds power in the first instance

Hidden bodily fluids evoke self-abasement

Despising it as nonsensical and underestimating its importance

This being a subjective space

Allows becoming its author rather than its victim

Creating an inviting place for interaction

The artists uncanny fantasy is firmly rooted in their generation

And it will permanently invalidate their process of recovery

This isn’t about getting back to how you were before

Emotions in 3D form

The unconscious space expands in memory

The motive for remembering lies in handling

Loosening of boundaries and ego

Contained in taboos in one hand and in art in the other

Perversion emerges when the object of the drive moves from the genitals to other parts of the body

Your shame confirms my existence as thought

The body universe starts turning and we feel the truth

But we must remember, lying is a biological need

The body cannot suppress the gasping breath of unconscious thought




Psychoanalytic Thinking from polly robinson on Vimeo.

This video is put together people's works in relation to psychoanalytic thinking which will be played while we read the corpse in the presentation.

Freud museum

Helen Chadwick



Iza Genzken
 Louise Bourgeois
               





Images

Here is images i took from the internet





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