Location:         Goldsmiths and various London locations
Dates:              2019 dates tba
Times:              10am to 5pm (6 hours per day, 30 hours total)
Features:         Performativity, interventions, architecture
Creative director:  Diego Ferrari
Tutors:              ​Diego Ferrari and Andy Day
Focus:               Practical technique, collaborative practise, theory
Places:              Minimum four, maximum nine

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This course is designed for those interested in representation in relation to the visual culture of urban space. In association with the Urban Photographers Association, Landmann Studios has established a programme that seeks to create a platform for photographers and visual artists who wish to evolve an practice that draws on critical research, photography, urban theory and fine art.

We welcome participants from broad educational backgrounds with the intention of developing students' understanding of image-making and contemporary urban research. 
Overview

This programme looks at the shifting role of photography as creative expression in the 21st Century, focusing on practice-based research into the relationship between performativity, the human body, architecture and urban space. 
Themes
  • photography as hybrid media
  • the human body
  • architecture and urban landscape

  • ​performing and choreography
  • ephemeral interventions
  • ​visual arts
Course Description

This masterclass offers an interdisciplinary approach to the practice of photography as performance. Working with street and fine art photography approaches and aesthetics, we will probe the relationship between subject and object, public and private, body and space.
 
Through research and creative practice, we will explore the conceptual and practical interplay between the body, space, buildings and the materiality of the city. We will learn classic ephemeral techniques from performance art and create incidental scenes which explore our identities in relation to the place and its social dynamics in public space. Participants will use photography not only as a tool to document, but also as a performative work in itself. This approach sits at the crossroads of photography practice, urban studies, the anthropology of space and performance theory of embodiment.
 
Objectives/Learning Outcomes

By the end of the masterclass, participants will have an understanding of contemporary photographic practice on art and architecture, a conceptual approach to the representation of space and its social values, and how to construct visual narratives within the context of public urban space and architecture. They will have learned techniques of professional architectural photography by using digital cameras. They will be able to enact within the urban arena or a public building a personal, intellectual or emotional response to the space. Each participant will produce a portfolio of work and will be encouraged to develop a clear research and conceptual definition of their practical subject of study as it unfolds. They will use their creativity as a tool to build social skills and relations, increasing their awareness of how artistic approaches to photography and social values are intertwined.
Schedule

Day One — Goldsmiths
  • Course and student introduction
  • Lecture by Diego Ferrari: An Introduction to Photography and Performativity
  • Practical workshop: A visual study on suspension and spatial representation
  • Lecture by Andy Day: Parkour and the politics of urban space
  • Feedback and review session

Day Two
  • Royal Institute of British Architects — Exhibition visit, Disappear Here: On Perspective and Other Kinds of Space
  • Barbican Centre — Practical photographic workshop on space and the nature of perspective
  • Body and Space workshop conducted by performer Will Dickie exploring the relationship between the body, movement and space

Day Three
  • Wyndham Road Estate — Workshop and lecture: An introduction to parkour photography by Andy Day
  • Barbican Centre — Workshop: ephemerality and small performative acts, by Diego Ferrari

Day Four — Barbican Centre
  •   Supported by the tutors, each student will put into practice a personal photographic project based on the different learning techniques evolving from the previous days' work

Day Five — Goldsmiths
  • Participants produce a digital photographic portfolio (Powerpoint or similar) evolving from the four practical workshops
  • Group feedback seminar during which participants will present and critically discuss each portfolio
Requirements

Essential:  
  • A camera. Ideally a DSLR or mirrorless equivalent, but compacts and bridge cameras are acceptable
  • Willingness to travel (independently if necessary) to each location prior to the morning start time or during the lunch break
  • The ability to edit images in your own time in order to prepare for the peer review session

Desirable:  ​
  • Laptop for editing
  • USB memory stick
Recommended preparation

Video:    Berlin OKK – Gallery. Urban Habitat — King of Kiez
​Video:   We are Water — Urban Habitat II
Video:   Urban Encounters International Conference, Tate Britain — When Water Meets Air
Reading:   Nicolas Bourriaud — Relational Aesthetics
Questions

We believe that our courses offer excellent value. Be sure to check out our FAQ and if you have any further questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Book online

For us to run this course, we require a minimum of four students. We will confirm no later than 16th August that sufficient numbers have signed up. Please note that according to our Terms and Conditions, we reserve the right to cancel this course (with a full refund) as late as Monday 13th August 2018 (10 working days' notice).
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Images by former students