Final images

These are my final images. I chose to merge the multiple shots together that were taken when I was completing these tasks. I merged them because I'd previously looked into video quite a bit and was interested in capturing the motion like the videos did, afterall I was moving at the time of the photos. I like these images and think they portray inappropriate behaviour well and show how much influence I gained from Erwim Wurm.

The day I made a fool of myself in Manchester

Yesterday I went around Manchester city centre and acted like an inappropriate fool whilst my friend Janine recorded the events. I started off by buying a cheap bottle of orange juice from tesco (which was horrible) so I could spit it out whilst janine took multiple shots. I stood in piccadilly gardens whilst many members of the public walked by and I spat the juice out, I wasn't embarrassed, just felt like people would be looking in disgust! I caught a few people pulling their faces at what I was doing but the thought 'I'll never see these people again' spurred me on. It took a few attempts for me to be happy with the outcome. After this I then had my photo taken whilst 'littering', then I put my feet up on the table in the food court and finally I had my photo taken whilst chugging strongbow on the train! I didn't like doing the littering photo because I thought people would have actually thought I was littering and as I hate it when people do this, I didn't want people thinking I was doing it. Putting my feet up on the table in the food court wasn't too bad, was comfy and I wanted to keep them there! The strongbow on the train wasn't much of a problem either, what made it worse was that a friend who I haven't seen for about 3 years was sat opposite me... I didn't tell her it was for a project so she probably thinks I'm an alcoholic who couldn't wait to get off the train before stuffing my belly full of cider. I am going back to Manchester to do more inappropriate things, worse ones this time such as 'acting like a crazy person', 'shouting' and 'scaring people'.

Trigger Happy TV

Ive looked at all of the things people want me to do in public and have realised that I would be completing tasks similar to them done by Dom Joly on Trigger Happy TV. For those of you who haven't seen this program, it's him roaming around doing inappropriate things in public. It's a very funny program, here are some links to some of the stuff he's done and what ill be doing myself in a while! Unfortunately...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gyWVodZm5c&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjxwXaE5EpE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_vULnoDRfo&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mO_QNeyfk&feature=endscreen&NR=1

I'm not looking forwards to doing stuff like this at all, I'm going to get asked to move, asked to leave, told off, shouted at, stared at and I'm pretty sure lots of old people will give me the 'I hate youths' look.

Someone elses opinion

I asked my friend Janine how she would feel taking the photos of me acting stupid and doing inappropriate things in public, I wanted to know if she'd feel uncomfortable, embarrassed or just find it funny and her first reply was:

''I knew Toni would ask me to be the photographer because I am amazing :D Without me Toni would surely have died, or something. I am the reason she is where she is today and any future success is all down to me but do I take credit for this, nope. Do you know why? Because I’m an amazing friend and all round person. I’m sure you will all be wetting yourself in excitement to see my work in a few days and I hope you consider yourself privileged to get the chance to view such work of arts (that’s if your eyes don’t burst from astonishment.)
The one and only ‘Janine the amazing’''

It did make me laugh but on a more serious note she then said:

''The main reason I agreed to do this was because I get the chance to laugh at Toni while she humiliates herself. Although I’m pretty sure there will be allot of laughter (mainly from me) we will take it seriously to get the tasks done. I’m glad that I’m the one behind the camera and not having to actually do these things; I’m sure though with some courage Toni will successfully manage to do these tasks. I’m not sure how I will feel taking photos, it depends on what the tasks entail and how many people stare. I can say that I am looking forward to thee ‘Toni looks like an idiot doing things in public’ day and hope that I don’t let her down and manage to capture these acts well.''

After finding out how funny Janine will find this, it hasn't filt me with any confidence but I'm sure no matter how ridiculas I will look and feel, we will look back on this rather embarrassing event and laugh!

Need some inspiration

I have my plan sorted to go into Manchester and do the inapproriate things in public but I'm hoping something will inspire me for me to be able to develop this idea further, as of now I know I want to merge the use of objects and inappropriate behaviour. The objects come from the series of work called 'One Minute Sculptures' by Erwin Wurm, It's his most well known series and intrests me very much so these are my reasons for wanting to use the idea. I can't think of any ways I can merge inappropriate behaviour and objects together without simply just doing inappropriate things with objects... and I think this is too much of an obvious approach to take so I shan't be following this route for too long. I will have a play about with consiquences of inappropriate behaviour by using objects as the subject matter, some how. I like the idea of the object being the subject, and it itself is completing the inappropriate task for example 'a stereo in a library' or 'a mobile phone in school'.

Inappropriate behaviour in public - date chosen

I am dreading going into manchester city centre and posing for photos while completing inappropriate tasks. I'm not only worred about it being INCREDIBLY embarrassing but also since these tasks have to show inappropriateness, I don't want anyone to think I'm rude and inappropriate! Some of the responces from people on my little questionnaires asking them what they think would be inappropriate are more silly and funny rather than inappropriate, I think this is because ive given them an opportunity to tell me what to do in public, I myself would also try to come up with something for the person to do which would make me laugh! I will try and complete not only the inappropriate acts but also the silly and funnier ones. I keep putting this trip off because I know how horrible it will be doing all of these things so ive set a date and will stick to it! The 4th of january will be the dreaded 'Toni looks like an idiot doing these things in public' day. Ive asked my friend janine if she will take the photos for me, she is really good at photography and knows her way around a camera. I wonder how janine will feel when taking the photos, even though she isn't taking part as a subject, she still has to stand with me while I act like a buffoon.

Yolanda Dominguez

Yolanda Dominguez is a Spanish artist who works with sensitive topics and sometimes ones that we find disturbing. One of her series of works entitles 'Poses' inspired me. 'Poses' is a performance/sculpture/photography like series where Dominguez gets women to stand in a certain way in public for a certain amount of time. The positions she gets them to stand in reflect the positions that models stand in. This series is a criticism of the artificial world of glamour that magazines present. It's mocking the highly edited image that the models are presented like. Dominguez uses real woman of different sizes to show that the way woman are shown in magazines is a far from realistic way. her aim was to make it clear how ''ridiculas, and at times harmful, it can be to follow models that the world of glamour impose on us.'' The photos shown down the left side are the photos of models from magazines and the photos down the right side are photos of Dominguez's models re-creating the magazine images.