Another day, Another blog
- Tami
- Mar 16, 2021
- 3 min read
Tuesday 16th March 2021
Assessment criteria meeting - it was interesting to listen to and gave me a better idea of what I need to do and how specific I need to be. Everything was very specific and detailed so I don't have notes to share but I will try to keep what I was told in my head with everything I am doing towards this project. Looking at the criteria is something I think is important to do often so you know how you should be working and it will help you keep on track. I definitely got a terrible grade last year, so it is important for me to know where I went wrong and what I can do better. Though I never asked about it, I think it is something I need to get around to doing.
I have a box in my house, well I have many boxes, but this one box contains various things from the past that I wanted to keep. I think I will use these for a video. Like Schaefer's work, each little item has a memory connected to it. But unlike Schaefer what I want to create is first of all on a smaller scale and second of all I am creating a video, lastly the video will be slightly abstract. This is because I think that this approach is more like me, especially as with my memory a lot of things may not have happened the way I remember them. Looking at Parr's Autoportrait, it felt a little like mimery which made me look into miming, specifically the history of it and what it's about. Although it is not something that I want to take my project in the direction of, I think it is quite interesting to explore and perhaps I could create something else as part of my project. The Martin Parr portraits are taken in black and white with the filter on my camera and I attempted to colour them in Adobe Photoshop. I was unable to film the video today because it was raining and the picture isn't ready yet so I can't attach it yet but you can expect to see both of these thing before the next week....probably.
"Mime has similar origins to both drama and the dance. When the storyteller was at a loss for words, gesture took over. Because of its character as an instinctive part of the makeup of a human being, mime must, of course, have existed in some form as long as recognizable men have walked the earth. Dance and mime were then, as now greatly intermingled. The famous Phyrrhic dances of the Greek warriors, for instance, were partly a mimetic representation of different kinds of fighting. The importance of pantomime in Greek drama was underlined by the fact that the number of plays was severely limited, and therefore, much of the action had to be wordless."
"Mime – or the acting out of a story using gesture but no speech – definitely hit the big time in France but where did this peculiar performance style come from? This distinctive brand of acrobatics, masked performance, and exaggerated comedy centred on a collection of fixed character types, playing out sketches and scenarios from daily life. Donning white face paint and a droopy buttoned suit, Duburau took to the stage as Pierrot, a lovable and lovesick character made famous in Italian theatre. Since its roots in 15th century Italy, mime has been tied to street performance and busking. Today you can find mime artists performing to crowds of onlookers in various cities around the world. But the genre continues to be a favourite with audiences at the theatre as well."
Livesey A. (2019) 'A History Of Mime, The Most Oh So French Of Art Forms', Theatre In Paris, Available at:(the above link) Accessed on: 16/03/2021
"Mime is a form of theatre which is based on a performer’s command of movement and the use of space. Mimers are often not only performers, but also originators and designers of their own work. There are various starting points for a mime performance. But a given is that a person is, or persons are, present in a certain space. All elements are there, before anything happens, the body of the mimer, in neutral or expressive form; the space with its own elements to which the performer can react to, and the elapsing time that adds to the tension of the creation. With these elements in mind – the body, the space and time – a mimer sets to work."
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