P.A.F 29.8

Thursday 29.09.2013 PAF

Today, I wake up in better mood. Time for practice. 

The task is to make 24 video samples about basic characteristics/concepts regarding Fenia in order to define more precisely her identity. Who is, what she is doing, how she is doing it, why she is doing it.  The task is to take this empty space and convert it in the most interesting encyclopedia ever existed!

 Some info I found on web about encyclopedia is that>

Encyclopedia: always a work in progress.

• list of entries/topics
• index
• cross references
• definitions
• examples
• illustrations
• maps
• biography
• statistics
• dictionary> linguistic information.
• the myth

It s a type of reference work-a compendium holding a summary of information. It focus on factual information to cover the thing or concept for which the article name stands. It collects knowledge disseminated around the globe.

“Encyclo”: enkyklios> circular, recurrent, general.

“Paedia”: education, rearing of child.

Let’s make an example

FIRST EXAMPLE:

POSE 

 Free dictionary:

1. To assume or hold a particular position or posture, as in sitting for a portrait.

2. To affect a particular mental attitude.

3. To represent oneself falsely; pretend to be other than what one is.

or

1. A bodily attitude or position, especially one assumed for an artist or a photographer.

2. A studied attitude assumed for effect

Follows a VIDEO with the main poses of Fenia when she is in front of someone she likes. 

I am aware the last years how I change my body language in front of someone that I like. Even if I can feel this change I don’t stop it. So it was not so much difficult  to represent or simulate this action without to be in a real context.

I choosed one of the spaces in PAF and I realized afterwords (and especially with Pavlos feedback and observations)that this choice, made because of my preference and not because of its functionality, was suitable for a “romantic situation” (because fenia is romantic). 

In the afternoon I had a meeting with Jan..at the end of the discussion Jan told me that he didn’t understand anything. So it was time to so something. Okay it’s time to let my fucking complicating and overwhelmed brain and DO something that after I will expose.

One of the main difficulties I have is the conditions of the medium I use. The PC is getting slower and slower and in some points crashes. In this lies the risk in one moment to lose everything and not be able to use technology or to spend more time to do something (like editing, elaborating foto material, researching online, writing in blog). So I am depended on technology. What I want to create has a virtual character. Is the virtual “fake”? How much “real” is what I present?

 

P for Poses from Foteini K on Vimeo.