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Banner Assignment

Possible Phrases:

• “depend on the feminist” – put on a pro-life ad, pro-life clinic, politically relevant and asks the viewers to depend on the feminist for women’s rights
• “praise and a kiss of death”
• “meditation on vulnerability and dissimulation”
• “safe and exposed positions” – a commentary on sexuality and intimate parts we share about ourselves
• “I am not bound to them” – talking about personal traumas, the location reflects that and gives the viewer an insight into my trauma. I am not bound to the individuals who have caused me trauma
• “conspicuous individuality” – put in front of a mirror, a comment on how we are all unique and have individualities that are recognizable to others but not to us – hence the mirror asking the individual to look at it and ponder their individualities and things that make them unique

Conspicuous Individuality

The phrase I chose from the reading Dirty Words: Tammer-El-Sheikh, from Canadian Art, was “Conspicuous Individuality.” This phrase stuck out to me because I enjoyed the sound of it, it wasn’t until I brainstormed a deeper meaning behind it that I selected it as my piece for my banner. The word conspicuous means something obvious or that stands out, so I wanted to look at features about ourselves that make us unique and individual. Nowadays I find we are so wrapped up with social media and comparing ourselves to the cookie-cutter ideal person society wants us to be. We may not notice unique features we possess that make us who we are or point them out as bad. The phrase “Conspicuous Individuality” combined with the placement of the banner, intends to get the reader to step back and think about the obvious and beautiful individualities that make them who they are. So long we spend in front of mirrors perfecting our appearance, but what if we just stood there noting all of the things that make us unique that we may not notice but others do? That’s exactly what I aim for the banner to beg of the viewer.

In making the banner, I cut unique shapes out of foil paper, ensuring each shape is different. As our individualities are unique, so are the shapes of paper. The choice of material was made to resemble a mirror, echoing the calling for looking at oneself. The warped and wavy shapes and fonts that make up the banner are intended to represent a warped sense of self, as many of us experience for numerous reasons, especially social media as I mentioned.

Internet Commentary Video

• Analog horror videos – indie-made horror content in short-form videos, a huge trend on YouTube in and out of the horror community
• Drama videos – an exposé of sorts
• Video essays – more consumable forms of information

Analog horror video

• Inspirations: Mandela Catalogue, the Backrooms, FNAF VHS, The Walton Files, Local 58, Gemini Home Entertainment
• Main idea: Use horror media to showcase real-time and present horrors
• Documents the current horrors of the world in the present time – the USA is currently experiencing several historical moments
• Showing things we are experiencing in real-time, in real life (a lot of news content with what’s happening with Human rights right now, especially in the States)
• Often with the constant news that someone’s rights have been revoked, one becomes desensitized to it all, it’s the only way for some people to survive day-to-day.
• I want to make viewers uncomfortable, and scared, how I feel when I think about the uncertain future of LGBTQIA+ people
• Heavily will rely on visual and audio effects to make normal videos seem horrific
• The analog horror genre normally relies on self-made or distorted images/videos/models to get their niche ideas across, my artistic twist is sourcing everyday things we see on the news and online

Open to the “breaking news” and announcement of crash, static overtop, distortion and black screen. distortion, footage of inside plan, flashes of black and maybe red to make it scary, “we’re going down” or something similar playing overtop. explosion. flatline sound or ringing opening into Trump’s initial mention of the plane crash.