According to Sharon Gill, Body Image is "a multidimensional construct of the self, consisting of how individuals think, feel and behave regarding their own physical attributes. It comprises the various cognitions an individual has about his/her body, as well as the behaviours he/she engages in as a means of maintaining and enhancing physical appearance"
Below is the Thesis I wrote for my Bachelors Degree accompanied by its Wordle(the bigger the word the more it's used.) This was a difficult endeavor. Due not only to a particularly heavy studio workload but also the challenge of writing a body of work such as this and how the breadth of research and its subsequent writing has challenged the prism through which I view myself, the world and my place in it. I wrote most of it while I should have been doing studio work or sleeping. It is one of the pieces I left my degree with that I'm most proud of.
An Exploration Into Body Image Issues In Gay Men
"Every time history repeats itself the price goes up."
TRAILER SURVIVING PROGRESS from AMBULANTE on Vimeo.
This is the trailer of a documentary I watched recently about progress, good progress and bad progress and how humans haven't really evolved in about 50,000 years. It deals with many themes and narratives that we intersect with daily, technology, debt, the possibility of economic, social, political and financial collapse, global warming, consumption and consumerist behavior and how that interacts with a biosphere of limited resources. We exist in an infinite growth paradigm, a paradigm which is based on the consumption of finite resources. There are 2 Billion consumers in this paradigm with 5 Billion more aspiring to take part. Progress? Martin Scorsese is Exec producer, it is well worth the watch. The full length version is available to watch in five parts on Youtube.
From the website
"Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century’s software — our know-how — on the ancient hardware of our primate brain which hasn’t been upgraded in 50,000 years. With rich imagery and immersive soundtrack, filmmakers Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks launch us on journey to contemplate our evolution from cave-dwellers to space explorers." more here
