For a period of seven days, document your existence. You may document your existence through sound recording, photography, video, or the collection of daily remnants. You must establish a formal structure to present your documentation to the class.
Objectives:
Use of daily life as content
Focus on collection and archive structure
Development of a consistent system for documentation
Carissa collected tickets from all the tables she served during her part-time job as a waitress and put the focus on an isolated part of her daily life.
Danny engaged with the project as both performance and documentation. He spent the night in the classroom for the seven-day span. Each morning he made a drawing of his sleeping quarters as evidence of his recent slumber.
Jacqueline used digital photography to capture an image of her discarded clothing at the end of each day. The works are reminiscent of Sophie Calle’s photographs of hotel rooms, where clothing and objects offer a voyeuristic glimpse of their absent owners.
