I found this tutorial very helpful. I shared my initial ideas for making a zine, as discussed in my last post, as well as being inspired by the idea that we're entering the new roaring 20's and what world post-COVID could look like, especially through a queer lens considering that a lot of people have been quite grateful for lockdown as it's given the an opportunity to live outside of gender norms and societal expectations and we discussed the impact this might have on the way we express ourselves, if any at all, when we leave lockdown.
One of the things I was suggested to look at was Dadaism as it really began to emerge in the 1920's and also a lot of it's ethos was to rip up conceptions of what art was at the time with the Dada movement consisting of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works, which are very similar themes to what I'm looking at for this project. I think it could be quite interesting to take Dada inspired photographs and or think about what the cultural changing art movement in the new roaring 20's could look like and consist of.
Looking at some of the work by Dada artists also made me start comparing the issues of the 1920's mainly characterised by anti-fascism, the great depression, sexism, classism, racism, homophobia and recovery from WW1 vs the issues of now mainly being COVID-19 and despite a lot of change and progression there still are issues of sexism, classism, racism and homophobia, which although not as severe in some places as they were in the 1920's, they're definitely still present.
This tutorial made me think about a possible different outcome from this project other than a zine, as it's something I've done before and after discussing the idea of taking photos of people in their space, in their bedrooms, I suddenly had the idea of making an installation in my own room of what a queer utopia/world post gender would look like to me as well as being influenced by asking others what it would look like to them and either taking photos of fellow LGBTQ+ people within the installation or just have the installation as a stand alone final piece.
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