Dana Munro
Like previous visitors, Munro keeps a sketchbook of all her ideas that she accumulates through conversations and general research. This is the method that I use and that gives me something to always focus on if I am having a creative block. She actually included these work journals, some from 2010, in a montage to begin the lecture. Her main practise is videography.
she considers her videos as living pictures which really came across in her piece above which was a still of the camera with a few birds flying around the room, using zooming and different angles she gave the feeling as if you were in the space, but using your eyes to look around the room to focus on new things. For me videography is an art form that I've never associated with my practise, but her work gave it a different feel and insight to how it doesn't always have to give off an atmosphere or meaning. she is inspired by John Knight's work which is mainly site based. In one of exhibitions called Portikus.
She featured in the original team photo that inspired him, so she toke his exhibition and used it for her own work. Taking his pieces and making them into words. She believes copying transforms things into stranger things. giving it your spin and twist for another to change it and take it in their own style again.
She has also experimented with text on top of existing images which is a technique I also used in A levels. For example, she used the Playboy magazine images and placed contrasting text above them to give them a whole new meaning. This is something I have tried before with changing or transforming the mundane into something completely different, by not giving it it's intended purpose.
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