Starting off this Project I visited Snoopers Paradise, It is a second hand store which sells almost everything you could need! from clothes, nick nacks, jewellery and photos. In here after from thorough searching I came across an area which stocked old 1980 Vogue magazines and Vogue Patterns magazines. I want to make a scrap book/collages which shows the comparison between models in Vogue magazines and the dance movement which exploded in the LGBT community around the time these magazines were published.
Looking into articles focusing on Vogue and it's background I found one listed 'A short history of voguing – an art, a sport, a way of life American drag balls were the original safe spaces; now voguing can teach queer Russians how to survive' By Kasia Maciejowska and' Strike A Pose: A Brief History Of The Art Of Voguing' by Nina LaPres, These articles allowed me to further my knowledge on Voguing and the history behind it.
Looking further into my artist relation I found Five Sfmoma which is a group who gathered footage for a related documentary film that he plans to debut in 2019. “Voguing is part of the queer black and Latina diaspora, and as a participant, I feel it’s important to make work for and about that community.”
In the wake of the upcoming performances, Newsome plans to produce a set of aluminium sculptures that echo the dancer’s motions. “If you can imagine the line of the dancer’s hand and turning its movement into physical form, that’s the sculpture,” he said. “It’s in the lineage of action painting; it’s post-action painting. I want to challenge the ephemeral nature of performance.” Newsome also goes against vogue’s established routines by excising house music from the mix. “We have a synthesizer to reference the post-punk and goth industrial sounds that were dominant in Germany in the 1980s,” he explained. This video is really expressive and has shown me ways I can communicate the meaning of vogue within my own documentary. FIVE SFMOMA excerpt from RASHAAD NEWSOME on Vimeo.
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