Photography Art Research Carl-Mikael Björk

I’ve just finished the second module of my master’s program in photography. The module was assessed through an in-progress-portfolio and a video documentary around my own photographic methods. Both assignments are handed in but not yet graded as I record this.

Despite the discrepancy between the podcast format and the visual nature of photography, I’ll use this episode to make those two assignments public.

https://carlmikaelbjork.se/photography-art-research-podcast/005-photography-statement-of-intent

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Heading for an assessment dealing with sustainability in photographic or visual practice. I’ve been reading two articles on sustainability from the post-humanities field. Maybe these can push me further ahead than the “minimise carbon footprint” discourse.

https://carlmikaelbjork.se/photography-art-research-podcast/004-in-search-of-a-sustainable-photographic-practice

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A call to not strive for originality. Are photos narrating the essence of being human? Objects, machines and environment as my fave collaborators.

Post with photo reference here: https://carlmikaelbjork.se//photography-art-research-podcast/003-creativity-plagiarism-and-authorship

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AZOULAY, Ariella. (2016). Photography Consists of Collaboration: Susan Meiselas, Wendy Ewald, and Ariella Azoulay. Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. 31. 187-201.

BETTELHEIM, Bruno. 1991. The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales. London: Penguin

JOHNSTONE, Keith. (2007[1979]). Impro: improvisation and the theatre. London: Methuen Drama

This episode is dedicated to an analysis of contemporary photography using Donna Haraway’s classic text The Cyborg Manifesto and a few other related theoretical ideas. Karen Barad’s idea of socio-materiality and intra-action and Michel Callon’s actor-network theory.

See a collection of the referenced photos: https://carlmikaelbjork.se/photography-art-research-podcast/002-flora-borsi-is-a-cyborg

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BARAD, Karen. 2003. ‘Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter’. Signs, 28(3), 801-831

CALLON, Michel. 2012. ‘Några element av en översättnings-sociologi: domesticeringen av pilgrimsmusslor och fiskare vid St. Brieucbukten’. In Cecilia ÅSBERG, Martin HULTMAN & Francis LEE (ed.). Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter. 1st edn. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 153-174

HARAWAY, Donna Jeanne (2016). Manifestly Haraway. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Location scouting. Night photography. Dealing with curious strangers. Feeling photo resistance. How the sum is greater than individual parts. The strength of a collection. About not really ever being finished.

For photos check out this post: https://carlmikaelbjork.se/photography-art-research-podcast/001-naked-on-a-loading-dock

Billgren, Ernst (2010). What is art and 100 other very important questions. Stockholm: Langenskiöld

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From gray space Lego, home computer controlled slide shows and a garden shed dark room, to exploratory photographic research projects and master’s studies.

You can find my Illustrated Research Proposal in full here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/29373669-7ecd-4e6f-8404-670ad7294cc3

BARAD, Karen. 2003. ‘Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter’. Signs, 28(3), 801-831

ÅSBERG, Cecilia, Martin HULTMAN and Francis LEE (ed.) 2012. Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter. 1st edn. Lund: Studentlitteratur

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