Tutorial with Maria

After explaining to Maria my proposal, one of the first things that were not clear it is how I am going to formulate the question for the questionnaire/poll in the website. Something that I thought before, because when I’ve had to always expose my proposal was been difficult how formulate it. Because will be extremely key for the proposal in the form the question will be formulate. To constructed it, therefore, I must to choose if I’m gonna use the sex or the gender asking.

I think for get the greater turn out of opinions and make the proposal open will be better formulate the question from the point of view of the sex. Then the question would be similar to this, How do you think that a men/woman need to pose to be photographed ?.

We’ve been discussing about the aspects that the proposed of the project, such as this perfomative act of being photographed takes place of relatively private way. It is a point that interests to me, as it is possible to be granted to the spectator that are disposed in the public space (gallery) that become a private space at the time to perform her/his image inside the photo booth .I think it’s a good point of view that not generate more passive watcher that get to the gallery to find finish image and ordering a participation more active.

Another one of the recommendations of Maria was a work of Sophie Calle
where she show in a vitrine from her series Birthday Ceremony (1980 – 1993), displays an array of presents, which the artist received on the occasion of her ritual birthday celebrations, all neatly arranged, instead of ever making use of these gifts, in relation to that I could include some accessories to the audience helping for constructed their imagine .

Maria recommended me the text to Notes on "Camp" by Susan Sontag (published in 1964).I supposed that are relatively related with the character that has my work with the gender studies or queer theory .Was interesting the reading, although I didn’t discovered nothing new . Maybe was relating in the point of which we spoke to offer to the spectator accessories to construct his/her image. But I think it’s not included in my expectations mediate too much in the freedom to the audience to perform with the piece.

For theorical research respect photography, Maria recommended me to consider some texts of Rolan Barthes about the photography, about the puctum or for be more clear what photography does to attract without apparent sense in a specific point of the image.