after having over all of my burlesque loves last monday to discuss what a live press conference might look like, i realized just how much script writing, choreographing, and coordinating i was going to have to do, and for a result over which i might not have the quality control i need. my thought process during the wiggy.tv party: fuck. the discussion turned increasingly towards debauchery and i kicked everyone out. so while that idea is not necessarily entirely scrapped, i realize that something else has gotta give.
after spending all day sunday at the cremaster cycle marathon, i found a new appreciation for matthew barney. i’m not a big fan of cremaster 3, but predictably cremaster 4 and 5 and especially cremaster 1 won me over to the weird visceral freaky deaky dark side. and it tied in well with an idea for a super short (think minute and a half) video i have been toying with for a few weeks.
i need to make some phone calls, but i am hoping to film a scene in the volunteer park conservatory with three or four characters (wiggy of course being the star). it will be short, abstractly narrative, and highly produced in terms of costuming and aesthetic. if more time allows, it can become part of a suite of stardust backstory (the garden of vice) but for now, i will commit only to making one really goregous video, perhaps juxtaposing it with some other footage i’ve taken over the past few quarters should they work as a collage together. and maybe something in there will intimate the need for a press conference, live or filmed, but til then, just this video. and i’m imagining it on a weird 70s tv or monitor on the wall. i don’t want it to be part of the reel because i think it will be better displayed as a loop.
i’ll update this again as soon as i’ve spoken to the people at the conservatory with a more specific shoot schedule, but as it stands:
4.16
i’ve been writing a little, but by this friday i need to have a script/storyline all squared away so i can list it out and figure out what exactly i need
4.17-4.24
props and costumes need to be figured out and made. will be making a birdcage out of hair, i need two or three hazmat suits, glass baubles, rhinestones to vomit, and ideally a ceramic clawfoot bathtub but we’ll see if they let me bring that anywhere near the conservatory. and i need to figure out what wiggy will be wearing, if anything. i’m hoping to get jamie von stratton on board to help with costuming.
4.26-4.30 (with a caveat to not kill myself til the 7th of may)
ideally i will shoot this week, but if not i’m giving myself until the 7th. if i haven’t shot by the 7th, i’m shooting myself in the foot and dropping out of school.
5.5
midterm critiques. i hope to have footage to show you all, but i don’t by today i will by friday, and at the very least you can see all the costumes and shit i’ve been working on. but i think i’ll have some footage.
5.10-5.17
editing and shtuff. depending on how it all goes, maybe i can shoot another, less produced scene the week of the 17th, to be edited together by the 24th.
5.26
final critiques. bowie help us.
5.27
install stuff in SoA basement.
6.1
exhibition opens. invite entire burlesque and club scene. bronwyn will not be there. but wiggy will. probably with glittery track marks.
6.2-6.6
i’m going to miss exotic world. screw you all. vodka shots and glitter coke for three days nonstop.
6.11
gradumacation.
