1. Formative Assessment Presentation:
2. Goma:
   1. John Akomfrah’s Mimesis- African Soldier :
   2. Still Glasgow:
3. Glasgow Kiss- 25 Years of Art:

Formative Assessment Presentation:

Goma:

John Akomfrah’s Mimesis- African Soldier :

I didn’t get the pleasure of watching all of ‘Mimesis- African Soldier’ due to time constraints. Still, my IxD hat was one, and what I couldn’t stop thinking about was the use of three large projectors, each playing a different film that intertwined to make something bigger. Screen 1 would be referring to footage on screen 3, as screen 2 provides more context or shows an abstract recreation of a young African soldier walking through the jungle.

The dance of the 3 different screens that sometimes had Q&A, other times they followed one another or sometimes visually harmonised, I’d love the opportunity to bring some of this into my own work.

Still Glasgow:

The photography exhibition Still Glasgow featured works by several artists from different time periods in Glasgow’s modern history. I mainly wanted to see this exhibition on how a traditional photography exhibition is presented for the consideration of the general public.

My personal takeaway from this exhibition was that it was a collection of photographs, but there was not enough space for each to ‘speak’. The one piece I did feel connected to was the video of children holding their breath going through the Clyde tunnel, which was given space and focus, a fake wall presenting the screen flush like the rest of the photography, but given an indent in the room to stand alone.

I thought I also had this, and while observing others, I considered the distance from the viewer and the art on the walls; some seemed to keep their distance, while others wanted to interrogate the details of others’. I’ll need to keep this in mind when considering how people will view my work.

Also, something I didn’t consider was the framing of the photography. If I plan to use projectors, the frames will need to be considered, along with the glass within those frames and the reflections… I might not use frames or frames wih no glass.

Glasgow Kiss- 25 Years of Art:

I didn’t plan on seeing Glasgow Kiss, but during my Christmas shopping, I happened across it. I loved the humour, the attitude, how game it is.

How this exhibition informs my own is that it’s not trapped within the frames that it uses for some of the work; some of the work wouldn’t fit in a frame, or maybe doesn’t need one. My own piece won’t be similar to this, but I want to bring a small sense of its fun and adventure into my own.

By finding the line between ‘Still Glasgow’ and ‘Glasgow Kiss’, using technology and my own vision, it might hit the target I’m aiming for: sparking something within people and asking them to really look at the work.