'revolution'

du juan & co. by quentin shih for vogue china april '10

desperately trying to write this in to my dissertation.

mel.  imogen.  trentmoller.

movin' and shakin' on yet another dissertation break


status:  full steam ahead.

raf simons + gattaca = YES

another welcome break from my dissertation.

no  //

"...is an important part of Orientalism."

yes  //

"...forms a significant component of the Orientalist strategy."

seriously where would i be without a thesaurus?

dissertation fuel.

"...fantastic exoticism."

(Steele 1999: 71)

my new favourite phrase

haven't been posting many updates recently

the last month has been very hectic but after wednesday all the commotion will move to paris and i will have time to myself

uni //

dissertation is finally on the right track and being centered around representation rather than commerce, historical colonialism or politics.  those are important but should only feature as determinants of representation.  finding interesting gendered discrepancies between internally & externally generated representations of 'China'.

major project on track.  need to remember the audience for the work - gallery space and not editorial.

personal development //

getting more involved with Laurence on his various projects

handling production this year has raised the bar; there is more to what we do, there is still a way to go.

money has never been so low, but life is definitely on a high.  2010 is good


      

DISSERTATION :: TUTORIAL 2

all that was said really was that i've got to keep my focus on representation and fashion imagery rather than keeping it too abstract and venturing too far into economics. instead of discussing representation as a singular topic within a separate section it should be integrated into all the others in the literature review so when it comes to discussing my case studies the images and their analyses make much more sense. as for the dissertation as a whole the angle is steadily fixing itself as 'a western dissection of an outward-looking chinese identity formed within China, being sold to the west - the identity itself having been affected by western ideologies'

also i shouldn't discuss GQ China as that would be a separate dissertation topic covering the representation of chinese men within China. too introsepective and obviously i don't have enough knowledge of chinese history and culture to be able to properly explore that topic...

DISSERTATION :: TUTORIAL

so after my tutorial with Itai we decided rather than to focus on the cultural exchange between Europe and China, I should probably look more to that between China and the US, particularly during the Nixon administration in the 70's. much more material to work with in terms of representation (see above...thanks Andy!) and links between the two superpowers are so established I won't have to spend so much of my time trying to dig up evidence.

working title has to be re-worked. direction of research has to be tweaked.