CoursesHave been rethinking the Red Carnations project. Decided to clarify the whole thing and make it more simple – throwing a bunch of things out. The only sound will be the 24 hours tape, ocean and airport background sounds. Everything will be structured around the 24 hours. 24 videos, 13 minutes each (that is the length of the tape). Much of the imagery will be abstract. The idea is to present all 24 videos together, playing simultaneously, six by four rows so color and simple imagery is important. Here is the basic structure. The content, of course, is the 1974 revolution in Portugal. The problem is to learn more about it and compile a good bibliography. Here is a great youtube video of it and a quote about the revolutionary condition from Lyubov Popova.
Archive for June, 2010
Rethinking redcarnations
Stanley Fish on teaching
“But sometimes (although not always) effective teaching involves the deliberate inducing of confusion, the withholding of clarity, the refusal to provide answers; sometimes a class or an entire semester is spent being taken down various garden paths leading to dead ends that require inquiry to begin all over again, with the same discombobulating result; sometimes your expectations have been systematically disappointed. And sometimes that disappointment, while extremely annoying at the moment, is the sign that you’ve just been the beneficiary of a great course, although you may not realize it for decades.” – from: Deep in the Heart of Texas by Stanley Fish
Thomas Hirschorn: 2008 Carnegie International
This is a two year old talk by Hirschorn but his discussion of collage is so great.