Record & Recode - Collective work

What does Record and Recode actually means?

Recording means capturing a moment for example by taking photographs or sketching. These images can be personalized and developed for instance by adding an own point of view to them. This action is called recoding.

Before coming together in collective we learned about non-verbal communication, sequence and how to convey the alphabet in different ways using symbols or the human body.

Because of the presentation I got a quick insight of the different ways to express letters. Typography is not the only way to convey letters and communicate feelings. Those attitudes can also be communicated through dance and sound.

Afterwards we worked together in collectives and discussed our ideas about how to communicate 26 letters in the alphabets including our own bodies.

We all agreed on using references from "Paris is burning" by taking photographs of parts from our bodies while voguing as well as including shapes similar to the "Bauhaus movement" such as triangles. Our colour palette should be based on the classical ballet from Oskar Schlemmer, namely red, yellow and blue.

(Paris is burning)

(Bauhaus movement)

(Oskar Schlemmer)

Furthermore we all liked the idea of combining typography with parts of our bodies as Karel

Teige in "abeceda 1926" did.

I enjoyed working in my collective as all of us got included and showed respect towards each other. Everybody had ideas and also the chance to present them with the others. Evaluating our process I think that we experimented a lot with our body shapes, parts of ours and the angle of the camera as well as we included shapes.

After our photoshoot we started designing letters having a clear vision of what we wanted to create. Each of us could experiment with four different letters of the alphabet which we split up before.

I started to create a design for the letter "O". Having in mind that I wanted to focus on dynamic as well as the references that my group chose earlier in the day.

Then I looked at the letter "M" and "P". I furthermore looked at the Welcome Collection of Joceline Howe at the South London Gallery to get inspired by more shapes such as circles.

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