WERQ! IN PROGRESS
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“Werq!” asserts the sartorial, the expressive, the performed, and the embodied over the biologic, the state record, the birth certificate, the checkbox; it affirms the potential and creativity in being surplus and the potential of reworking and repurposing the signs, symbols, and accoutrements of Western modernity. — Treva Ellison, “The Labor of Werqing It,” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (2017)
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Unit 1 → Project Brief 1: Methods of investigating → Week 4 → Written Response
Below is a response of fewer than 500 words that places my work in conversation with Agnès Varda’s film The Gleaners and I and Janet Cardiff’s audio walk The Missing Voice (Case Study B): In The Gleaners and I (2000), Agnès Varda documents people gathering leftover food and objects, and also posits herself as a gleaner of images…
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Unit 1 → Project Brief 1: Methods of investigating → Week 3 → Presentation
filth, a publication: Foreword: filth began in the shared bathroom of the four-bedroom former council flat in Hackney I had just moved into. There I found abandoned objects covered in dirt, grime and gunk: accumulations of historical matter and evidence of bodily contact. I didn’t know who they belonged to. I imagined they had outlasted…
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Unit 1 → Project Brief 1: Methods of investigating → Week 2
Inspired by the suggestions arising in last week’s tutorial, I photographed seven selected object in the CSM photography studio using a macro lens, revealing previously unnoticed details of surface residue, dirt and grime. I then brought out these details further by editing the RAW files in Adobe Lightroom. Finally, in Photoshop, I extended this process…
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Unit 1 → Project Brief 1: Methods of investigating → Week 1
This week I was asked to select a physical location and use three methods to investigate the chosen site. I selected my shared bathroom in my Hackney flat, which I share with three other people. This is a site other people use, a site I am myself implicated in, and a site I am relatively…