ON|RUST

"ON|RUST" ("UN|REST" in Dutch) is a photo series developed by JW Fotografen in the frame of the project "Is it creative? Yes. Is it art?" 

Here is the first image of the series.

Organic Liberation

"Organic Liberation" is one of the groups originated in the project "Is it creative? Yes. Is it art?" We have four sessions behind the back and there are a few more to go. 

Here you can see the creations produced in all the four sessions.

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

The sound research — session # 3

Magazine music

This time we were practicing with magazines. We wrote down about 20 tasks for the players and placed them in a specific order. Each player was supposed to follow the order of the tasks in his/her own tempo. 

The sound research — session # 2

In the second 'sound research' session, we began with listening to Olivier Messiaen and Goldberg variations on Bach. Bit per bit we started exploring what kind of sounds can one make with die KUNSTZEITUNG.

Later, we thought of a few 'tasks' we can 'answer to' using the newspaper sounds. For instance, 'slower', 'faster', 'happy', 'dramatic', 'tick a page for 10 times'. The tasks were written on paper cards and the conductor was showing us them to direct us. And here's what we got.

Newspaper music 1

Newspaper music 2

JW fotografen

Then we had a session about long exposure and flash light. And painting with light. 

JW fotografen

More macro pictures, from the outside :)

JW fotografen

More pictures from last week. The theme was "macro photography". 

Happy happy women day

I had a workshop today in Bloemekenswijk, Ghent, as a part of a festivity for the Women's day. It was an introduction to my project "Is it creative? Yes. Is it art?" 

I must say, it was really, really, really highly enjoyable. It was really interesting to talk about what is art, and what's the threshold, and about the art market. It was also wonderful that everyone found her own style. 

Thank you, ladies! There are still 5 places to inscribe for the workshop. It will happen in the buurt centrum Bloemekenswijk on Wednesday morning, starting next week for 10 times. I will post an update with the program very soon. Don't hesitate to write me if you have any questions!

JW fotografen

For the project "Is it creative? Yes. Is it art?" I also started to work with a group JW fotografen. 

During the first session, we were working on silhouette photography. Here are some examples of what we have made.

The sound research — session # 1

Today I had the second session already with the group that joined me in the exploration of sounds.

That's what we did today. Firstly, we listened to the piece "Ionization" by Edgard Varése, to "Passages" by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass and to the piece "Danzon no 2" by Arturo Marquez conducted by Alondra de la Parra. We were playing along with the pieces using spoons.

After that, we turned the music off and recorded this piece. Although it might seem so, in the beginning, it does evolve and experiences a kind of climax at 5 minute and then in the end.

Spoon Music

Next time I plan to work with newspapers.

Leave a comment below, let me know what you think :)