public & private

MICRO ASSIGNMENTS:

map the bold

public intervention

GROUP WORK:

gijs

urte

luna

lisa

me (robin)

stereotypes

gender

culture

sexism

sexualisation

voice of the city

SEX IN THE CITY

shifting the gaze

With the practice public & private we got to do group work with about five people. We got 3 people from fine art, one person from graphic design and one person from advertisement, which is a nice combination. We all are very interested and active in this project, all give ideas and respond to each other which is a super nice and rare situation.

We are making a project about the gender of architecture, and are focusing mainly on how masculine big parts of the city are. We are doing a lot of research on gender, feminism (in architecture), and exploring how buildings feel feminine or masculine, or genderless.

With this project, we bring the private (sexual) out, and hereby reclaim power from the male gaze in the masculine city, and give power to the feminine and queer gaze. We are visualizing this by making silicone hands in sexual gestures (fist, two fingers out, hand holding position) to disrupt the hyper maleness of the area through this slight absurdism.

For the theory part of this practice, we had to make a lexicon. We all picked 20 words that fit this project and our art practice and had to define these. These 20 words also had to link to the texts we had to read every week about public & private matters, which were very interesting just in general for my art practice in terms of how contexts of something are created and how that impacts the work.





I think that putting playfulness in the work, and helping put words/the concept into visual translations are the biggest contributions I made for this project. Besides this, just by contributing to the conversation, I think everyone did their part in making the project stronger.

What I will take from this project is for sure that group work can be fun, if you’re in the right group. In this group everyone participated on an equal level, filling up each others ‘weaknesses’ by using our strengths and sharing the workload. So I would love to do more collaborations in the future.
In general, my works are more about how things look from my point of view (often visually), specific details I see, etc. In this project, we were more critically looking at sexism, gender, feminism, and how this relates to architecture. Also just reading articles and essays about this made me look more critically at my surroundings.

So, in conclusion, happy that I chose this practice! The teachers are great, we get great references and great feedback and got some nice collaboration experiences!

For public and private we had to do three micro assignments, one every week: map the bold, voice of the city, and public intervention.
Map the bold: we all had to go into the city and make a map of whatever we wanted, also the map could be in whatever shape or form.
At first, I wanted to make a map of the textures of the city, but when walking around my eye immediately fell to bright colors. So I made photos of colour combinations that struck my eye and when I collected everything I drew them with very vivid colours. These illustrations I cut out and put together on a big sheet of paper in a way that the colours were organized with each other.

Voice of the city: on my daily walking route some phrases/words have always caught my eye, So I made videos of this. I did a voiceover over these videos in the way they sounded in my head, which made it a very humorous video.

Intervention: in collaboration with Lisa we went to the city and said to people in a nice way that they looked amazing today. This we did because if this happens to us, it affects our day in a good way (when done with good intentions).

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this practice ends next week friday so we don't have an end result yet

masculinity

femininity

genderless

absurdism

what did I contribute to this project from my art practice & what did I learn?