Photopraphy | Video | Other stuff | Bio | Writings | Current | Contact | Home
Excursões sobre a repeticão project, 2017
This project was made as final work at the Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG.
This monograph studies the distinction posed by Gilles Deleuze between generality and repetition and the implications of this distinction for the idea of representation and for a thinking about the difference and its consequences in modern and contemporary art. It utilizes these concepts, besides a comparative analysis with the poetic method of Francis Ponge, as tools to think over a practical experience developped in the Metal engraving ateliers’ and that resulted in a proposal of a work.
I made three copies for each of four different images, proposing to present them side by side in order to show differences in the repeated images.
Etchings.
RELAY SCRIPT project, 2011-2013
This project took into account theoretical writings of several authors, including concepts from Pierre Schaeffer about what he calls "relay-arts" (arts such as Radio and Cinema), and about sound and listening, as well as ideas from Gilles Deleuze about image regimes, their relation with perception and types of cinema ("movement-image", "time-image", and subcategories of them). It also followed the practical attitude of Schaeffer in the discoveries of sounds through their registers, and of the creative possibilities of composition by the incorporation as a method itself of the logic and way of behaviour brought by the technical reprodutibility.
I tried myself to imitate this research, recording sounds, editing them, hearing to the material, thinking about what it afforded, rediscovering their sonic qualities. I then abandoned the collection of live sounds and started to edit other relay-arts previously manipulated as radio pieces, talkies, etc. Finally I opted to casually collect audio excerpts chosen from fourteen films whilst analysing their strict "sonority" within the "reduced listening" described by Schaeffer.
The result is the adjacent series of audio scenes or "sound frameworks", that was named "relay script".
SONHO DE MEFISTO or MEPHIST DREAM project, 2007-2010
I aimed to elaborate the script as a time-image (a type of image proposed by Gilles Deleuze) for what I thought the background and sound would be as essential as the actions of the characters. Then I proposed a sound diagram as "a noise act" to synchronize with the visual storyboard. This was the practical result - in which I incorporated a range of phonographic fragments (listed in a monograph) - , of theoretical research undertaken for the course.
After I had completed this project, it occurred to me that I could do the exact opposite: rather than make a diagram to generate the soundtrack of a movie, I could make a soundtrack to generate a movie. These were the precedents which drove me to the RELAY SCRIPT project.
SERIES and OTHER SERIES projects, 2009
I developed this work at the Fine Arts School of UFMG, in the Photography Atelier.
The general purpose was to take shots of some mundane objects and scenes from daily life and juxtapose them with an unrelated text fragment (invented, extracted from books, etc.). It was a way of thinking about how narrativity arises from a sequence of images, and how the retrospectively added textual caption modifies certain hypotheses or schemes which could have been constructed upon them by the viewer.
Color/B&W. 35mm. Taken with a Nikon FM2.
PORTRAIT IN SERIES projects, 2006
These are some pictures I took in 2006, when I worked at the photography lab & studio on a scholarship at the Fine Arts School of UFMG. These photos are perhaps the most irreverent and animated I've taken, despite their mundanity. At that time I was experimenting with long and multiple exposure shots, which can be seen in the studio essays with Pedro Veneroso, and also in some of the portraits. It was through these techniques that I first perceived the effect, in which I subsequently became interested, of repeating obsessively similar patterns.
B&W, 35mm. Taken with a Nikon FM2.
© 2013 by Rúbia Gonzaga.