ANXIETYsenior thesis 2012caitlin clingman

I am interested in surveilling, cataloguing and creating images of anxiety.

!rough this exploration I will use mechanical and natural ways of distorting, repeating, and concealing images to communicate stress and anxiety.

INTERESTS

hysteriapanic attacksimage distortion surveillence crowds montage concealing suspense

(L) Paul Sharil, Seizure Comparison, video at The New Museum

(R) Louise-Bourgeois, Arch of Hysteria, 1993

(L) Etching, by myself, of a partial crowd

(R) Photo by Michael Ruetz, Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1973

(L) Paul Citroes, Metropolis, 1923 collage

(R) MRI of brain, “researches found that regions of the brain that

regulate emotion and anxiety are overactive in city-dwellers.”

OBSERVATIONS

!rough research, I found that I am interested in images of crowds. I experience episodes of anxiety in crowds of people and in the past have made a series of etchings to cope with this.

I am interested in images of hysteria and panic attacks and the symptoms that follow; including seizures, vertigo and hysteria.

Oil paintings by Adrian Ghenie, manipulating materials and

defacing subjects

Collages by Office Supplies Incorporated, collage of found

images and photocopies

Screen shots from Norman Leto’s film Sailor, visualizing the ear

drum and the effects of stress inducing sounds

(L) Screen shots from Jørgen Leth’s The Five Obstructions, this

version filmed in Cuba, had no shot over twelve frames.

(R) Screen shots from William S. Burroughs Cut-Up films.

PLANNING

!rough the beginning of this exploration I have been making personal pieces. Starting with observing my apartment building, and anxieties in city living.

Part of my exploration led to "lm and stop motion animations. I have been making short gif animations that make the viewer feel anxious. I will display the gif animations all together on a website and compile still images in a printed book.

http://caitlinclingman.tumblr.com/

READING LIST

Masochism and the Perverse Pleasures of the Cinema, Gaylyn StudlarFrancis Bacon and the Loss of Self, Ernst Van AlphenFantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art, Mignon NixonMadness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, Michel FoucaultIn!nite Jest, David Foster Wallace "e Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky!e private journals of Edvard Munch

MOVIE LIST

Taxi Driver, Martin ScorseseFunny Games, Michael HanekeVertigo, Alfred HitchcockSpellbound, Alfred HitchcockPsycho, Alfred HitchcockFilm Cut-Ups, William S. Burroughs"e Five Obstructions, Jørgen LethUn Chien Andalou, Salvador Dalí and Luis BuñuelBlack Swan, Darren AronofskyNight on Earth, Jim Jarmusch

Punch Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson