I need to explain some delays in the production of the final project. And present some developments of the idea. And identify and analyse some of the production problems and mistakes.
Due to sickness I did not manage to finish even the main chunk of the practical side of the project. I am away without Photoshop etc until 04 January 2009 and I miss my work so much:) I wish I could do some images but as I am staying over Christmas vacation I am bereft of all this nice software... I did some work on the theoretical side though- finish my adventure with Simone de Beauvoire and her book titled The Other Sex (that was really chunky). I managed to refine some texts for the section on FGM (circumcision) I decided to use shocking bits from Waris Dirie's book where she described how she was circumcised at the age of about 5 years old... My friend had a look on these excerpts and was absolutely outraged and smashed! I have some links to the organisations which fight against FGM and they provide some statistical data, I will provide these links in my website too, as hidden links maybe? But as my website is more about expression and feeling, I will try to play with emotion rather than with ratio.
Just one thing worth mentioning relating to extending my visual library. As I am spending Christmas in Wroclaw (Breslau, quite big city, quite "close" to Berlin, not in Germany though:) I met my friend Ewa, whose photographies I am using in creating images for my project. Ewa took me for an exhibition in the Wro Art Centre For New Media for a retrospective of NAM JUNE PAIK. I was so happy to finally see his works as I recently read a bit of Fredric Jameson's writings and he relates to Paik quite often... I don't think I will use links to Nam June Paik in this project, as I am already overloaded with the ideas and inspirations... However, I felt as if I were a child of luck as the exhibition was for free:))
One more note regarding AUDIO. I have some nice new music for the project. I got a completely new album by MASSKOTKI as an Xmas present and I found some interesting bits I will convert into mp3 and use in the Flash composition in my website. I got also a new album by MARIA PESZEK, a young Polish actress who is famous for her outstanding style and lyrics which deconstruct playfully the ideas of femininity, sexuality and gender identity. Although she sings mainly in Polish, I want to use bits of her songs for their ambience of sensuality and pleasure.
I finished reading David Gauntlett, Susan Faludi and Judith Butler (her Gender Trouble was a nightmarishly difficult book to read://) I will rovide full Harvard references to their books when back to London- so in less than a week from now:) And I am just about to read some linguistic papers on sexism, sexist language and what can be done to reform it. I am so much into these theories and ideas that I am really enjoying myself collecting all the materials and texts, but I can now see that my time management is very poor. I get easily distracted by some interestingly- looking stuff such as promising titled articles in the academic books. And I get inspired far too easily... Too many things have been catching my attention in relation to the research. I can now realise how difficult it is to narrow topic down and stick with the original idea in the situation of excessive amounts of materials to be used in the project. I find such time-information-research management really challenging! And it took me too much time to find proper idea for manipulating the images and too be honest I took too much time to produce a series of images I actually cannot use in my project. In the student crit session I presented images in the portrait orientation whereas I know now that I need images in the landscape one (it's better for websites as it doesn't require scrolling down as much as portrait orientation)
I try to cheer myself up and think that I can use them for my poster I only started designing before Christmas. (This still needs to be finished off:/)
Well, it sounds there is still much to be done. None the less, I hope I am able to catch up with everything and submit my website on time.
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