Initial Ideas

RELIGION RESEARCH

EXPERIMENT IDEAS


  • CREATING A INTERACTIVE PHYSICAL/DIGITAL PERFORMANCE SPACE THAT MANIPULATES OR SATIRISES? COULD BE SIMILAR TO CASINO, RODINA, PALLADIUM DREAM, HARIBO CULT - COULD LINK TO A RELIGION OF OUR DESIGN 


SUBVERT RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

  • TAKING ICONOGRAPHY AND REFRAMING IT IN A SATIRICAL CONTEXT

  • REINTERPRETING ICONS AS HYPER CAPITALIST 

  • EXPOSING THE MISOGYNY 


DESIGN OWN RELIGION

  • SATIRICAL APPROACH? 

  • COULD EXPLORE MANIPULATION TOOLS THROUGH VISUAL LANGUAGE


TAPESTRY/LARGE FORMAT PIECE INSPIRED BY BOSCH’S PAINTINGS THAT EXPLORES CONTEMPORARY RELIGION IN AN ABSTRACT OR SURREAL SENSE 


CENSORSHIP 

  • EXPOSING THE EVILS/SINS WITHIN RELIGION ITSELF I.E. PAEDOPHILIA OF CATHOLIC CHURCH, KU KLUX KLAN, MISOGYNY IN ISLAM 


RODINA, FAITH HEALING, SATIRE

  • PERFORMANCE PIECE EXPLORING AND HIGHLIGHTING THE CYNICISM AROUND FAITH HEALING 


HATE 

  • WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH, MONTERO, YOUTUBE CHRISTIANS

  • COULD THIS BE VIDEO CONTENT SIMILAR TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS OR THE WESTBORO VIDEOS? EDUCATIONAL OR COMICAL OR SERMONS, COULD BE A PROMOTIONAL 

  • PARODYING HOW HATEFUL RELIGIONS ARE TO MAKE AN ULTRA HATEFUL RELIGION, SHOWING HOW IT CAN BE USED TO INCITE HATE 


RESEARCH PROJECTS


  1. SUBVERTING RELIGION TO BE ANTI PATRIARCHAL AND FOCUS ON WOMEN 


  • MEL WILL CREATE EXPLORE SUBVERTING THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF TRADITIONAL PATRIARCHAL RELIGIONS BY CREATING A FICTIONAL RELIGION FOCUSED ON EMPOWERING WOMEN

  • THIS WILL BE EXPLORED BY THE FOLLOWING AVENUES; 


  1. HYPER CAPITALISE A MODERN RELIGION AS A BRAND TO REFLECT THEIR CHANGING ATTITUDES 

  • SUPER CHEAP, EXPOSING IT’S COMMODIFIED 



  1. EXPOSING THE HYPOCRISY AND EVIL WITHIN RELIGION VIA SUBVERTING ICONOGRAPHY AND IMAGERY 

  • COULD BE A TAPESTRY? OR ANOTHER PIECE OF RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY LIKE A SHRINE 




SUBVERTING ICONOGRAPHY TAPESTRY/SCENE 

What am I criticising about religion? 

- Censorship (Christian religions: naked Adam and eve but as it went on there was more censorship and modesty, Islam: more censorship) blur out all women's faces 
- Paedophilia
- Sexism 
- Drinking of wine but no weed? Lots of spliffs in people's mouths
- Homosexuality a sin but consistent history of homosexual rape in Catholicism 
- Love Thy Neighbour >< God Hates Fags 

subverting means making the negative points on religion more positive eg. GOD LOVE FAGS 

> overall tapestry should feel like freedom and hope 

however this would be confusing as it needs to be an overall message on religion and how its hypocritical, subverting Westborough Baptist church would mean doing the opposite of this (technically they are contributing to the hypocrisy to love thy neighbour) 

> overall tapestry should feel like a pointer on critiques of religion 



 > existing image of all the 'bad' people from religion 
> Works well in formation of people face front and inclusion of saints 


> doesn't work as tapestry yet as more needed 
> individual ideas good comment on hypocrisy and negatives of Christianity 


> idea of tapestry focussing on censoring women like the uni social media did doesn't work as well 
> tapestry design would need developing 



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