Sunday, 9 October 2016

WEEK 11:AUTOMATISM: Text, Film and Sound Response.


Tacita Dean: Blackboard drawings 1996
AUTOMATISM: Text, Film and Sound Response.
In the context of this lesson automatism relates to a method of drawing/writing that corresponds to a form of ‘scribbling on paper’. As one of the methods embracedby the Surrealists to engage a more immediate connection with the unconscious, automatism provided a method for making unconscious associations more visibly present and instinctive. Automatism connected the artist with the immediacy of experience by attempting to dissolve control of any conscious or rational interpretation of the world. Essentially this lesson engages elements of automatism in the form of film, sound and text as a means of exploring the layered relationship between perception and representation.

BRIEF: Students need to come to this lesson prepared to embrace the experimental methods and unexpected outcomes that follow.

Students are come to this lesson prepared with three different automatistic responses.

An Ekphrastic poetic response (poetic response to any art work of your choice)

A series of random sound recording

A series of random filmic response


In this lesson students will engage in a series of automatism-­‐based exercises that relate to sound, film and textual elements. The lesson will allow students to formulate a more structured response to each of the components gathered in preparation for the class. The outcomes for this lesson will remain open-­‐ended and may be extended into the final free studio session before assessment.


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