Interim Report

Development

• About the research

I needed to change my first proposal because I realize that all around created the photo booth was extremely complicated and out of reach in the economy and resource issue, then I change the way to produce my piece, but the whole idea about the gender still being the same. Now I don’t leave all the “responsibility” to the audience and now I’m on my own research and selecting what are going to be the movement and different way of performing the daily actions. I ´m watching a lot tv series and movie and observing how people moving, or when I go out I watching how people walk and try to separate in different types. At the same time I’ve been practice with the model all those movement and I’ll try to do a video tested very soon


• Prototype

Around the prototype now I only have ready the look like of the model and the position but I need to made the clips but first I need to get the right camera and get the studio, I would like to have prepared to the end of April of the start of May. I still developed about how I’m going to get a body artist or try to learn a about that before I’ve been working with latex and thing like that to transform the body of the model.



Revision & Evaluation

I decided basically tread the model like a one mixtures of sexes, because I think it’s very related to the whole idea that I wanted express with my project and try make dude the audience about what it’s with the conclusion about how “constructed” are both sexes and how non sense can be.
I found helpful that point to make the audience get a feeling that something it’s strange but at the same time very familiar and how the model can past around the both association with the intention to show a multiplicity of possibilities in the way to do things that a person can have independently what kind of sex it is.







Further Progress

• the different video clips

At the end I think that will be around 32 video clips in a way to present a big possibilities of different ways to do the daily actions. Finally like I commented before we only going to see the model in a neutral look without separated in two simulates roles (male and female) now I decided for a neutral – androgynous look like.

• Installation

About how I will presented the piece I want project in a wall .The interface to presented can be similar to a slider puzzle and the way that audience can interact in a first moment should be by a joystick but probably I could investigate and try explore other way to interact, like a tap sensor panel to be control by the foot or similar…

WAVE “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”

“Are you a good witch or a bad witch?” Video

The piece consist in a deconstruction of the film “The wizard of Oz” and it is presented as a result of mixing fragments of the movie with the intention to do an interpretation of the novel of L. Frank Baum from a queer theory point of view. Reveling some of the issues about why “ the wizard of oz “ has become part of the gay culture, and what are some of the mechanisms has been created a process of identification around homosexual community with determinates elements that constitute the movie. The video also analyzed new meanings and hided messages as a re-lecture can have.



The video show some of the most relevant clips from the movie that has been appropriated for the queer culture to defined the condition of being gay. Some of the songs like “somewhere over the rainbow” or when the Lion interpreted the song “If I had the nerve”:

Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy,
When you're born to be a sissy
Without the vim and verve.
But I could show my prowess,
be a lion not a mou-ess
If I only had the nerve.
I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a dandelion,
A fate I don't deserve.
I'd be brave as a blizzard...
I'd be gentle as a lizard...
I'd be clever as a gizzard...
If the Wizard is a Wizard who will serve.
Then I'm sure to get a brain, a heart, a home, the nerve!


Other relevant song can be the part of Glinda one of the good one’s witches that sang this song:

Come out, come out, wherever you are
and meet the young lady, who fell from a star.
She fell from the sky, she fell very far
and Kansas, she says, is the name of the star.
Kansas, she says, is the name of the star.

As we can see that term “came out” was appropriated in the 70 with the meaning of sexual liberation and came out the closet.

For the gay community of the 70´s and the post war , and much more for people that weren’t lived in the city was pretty hard to had a sexual liberation with a repressive and hostile live in Oz was mean to be a nice, there over the rainbow.