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ULAY

Ulay - a conceptual artist who is fascinated by the phenomenology of the photographic medium - has been and keeps being a source of inspiration for me as I navigate my way of approaching photography and performance.

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One of his work that links to this project is "FOTOTOT 1 - action in 2 parts" (1976). Two experiments that question the photographic objectivity, and bring into light its impermanent characteristic. Eight black and white photographs, developed in dark room but without being fixed, were hung on the walls of teh De Appel Gallery (Amsterdam, NL). When the audience entered, the lights were turned on, and as consequence the images turned into black into 30seconds.

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For the second action, ULAY used the documentation from the first action: the eight blackened images and a portfolio with documentation images, all placed on a table with a reading light on the top.In order to look at the images, teh audience had to turn on the reading light. Consequently the images, once again, started fading out (in less than 3 minutes).

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This process of disappearance highlight the aspect of illusion related to a photograph. The illusion of permanence and fixedness. By eliminating the fixing phase of the emulsion, Ulay gives back to the photograph its own mortality.

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photo of pages (194-5) from the book:
"WHISPERS: ULAY ON ULAY" (2014) by Maria Rus Bojan and Alessandro Cassin

ADAM GOOD

Adam Good's work "One Hour Photo" (2011), a photographic grouo exhibition in which he and his collaboratores commit to neither reproduce nor sell the exhibited photographs beyond the exhibition.  The images are projected, one after another and each for one hour, before subsequently being destroyed.

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The first installation of One Hour Photo appeared at the Katzen Arts Center at the American University Museum, and featured 128 emerging and established photographers.

The second installation of One Hour Photo appeared at the Biel/Bienne Fesitval of Photography in Switzerland.

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website of artist:

http://www.therealadamgood.com/one-hour-photo/

 ‘Each work will exist only in the experience, then memory, of the observers’ (Onehourphotoproject.com, 2010).

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's book:

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (2011).

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A book tha looks at the phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and argues why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget.

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John Baldassari

"Cremation project" (1970) in which teh artist turns into ashes all his unsold paintings.

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THE GALLERY OF LOST ART

The Gallery of Lost Art was an immersive, online exhibition that told the stories of artworks that had disappeared. Destroyed, stolen, discarded, rejected, erased, ephemeral – some of the most significant artworks of the last 100 years have been lost and can no longer be seen.

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WEBSITE: http://galleryoflostart.com/

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Néle Azevedo

Azevedo's work "Minimum Monument" (2005). Solitary figures, later a multitude of small ice sculptures were placed in public spaces of several cities.

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WEBSITE: https://www.neleazevedo.com.br/trabalhos-works

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Belen Cerezo

"A Pool of Light" (2019): work developed during the artistic residency at  "The Collection" in Lincoln (UK), exploring the performative condition  of images.

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WEBSITE: https://belencerezo.com/

TEXTS

- Batchen, G. (2004). Forget me not. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum Batty.

- Barthes, R. (1993). Camera lucida. London: Vintage.

- Cocker, E. (2020). Touched by a Lighter Sensitivity; or, On How Not to Break the Egg.

[Online] Available from: https://belencerezo.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/touched-by-a-lighter-sensitivity-or-on-how-not-to-break-the-egg.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1AetWTKlC-aVdp9lQpspjCv3wKtWSZ7SR-lFpYdVPvorYM7edaypJ-fFo

- Lively, P. (2003). The Photograph. New York: Viking.

- Mayer-Shoeneberg, V. (2011). Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.

- Wigoder, M. (2001).Photography and Memory in the Writings of Siegfried Kracauer and RolandBarthes. I

n: History and Memory, 13(1), 19. doi:10.2979/his.2001.13.1.19 

- O' Neil, M (2007). EphemeralArt: Mourning and Loss. A Doctoral Thesis.

[Online]. Available from: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/Ephemeral_art_mourning_and_loss/9333173

- Phelan, P. (1993). Unmarked: The Politics of Performance.Ney York: Routledge.

- Sontag, S. (1977). On Photography. New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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