Strategies for Creative Photography
Story of the oracles
A course by Julia Sbriller , Architect, Photographer, and Performer
About the video: Story of the oracles
Overview
“An oracle is born from the need to answer a question. It is organized as a system to give shape to something that is complex to say, in the same way that our artistic productions and processes operate. There are many oracular systems in the history of humanity and they are all super creative in their way of acting. In this lesson, I'm going to introduce you to a few.”
In this video lesson Julia Sbriller addresses the topic: Story of the oracles, which is part of the Domestika online course: Strategies for Creative Photography. Learn strategies and techniques to drive your creative process in photography and develop compelling visual projects.
Partial transcription of the video
“story of the oracles In this unit we will work with oracles. I'm interested in us thinking about what an oracle is and how different civilizations they needed this tool to understand their present moment. An oracle is the need to answer a question organized as a system to give voice to something that is difficult to say. In the same way that, as I told you before, I think they operate our creative processes and works. There are many oracular systems in the history of mankind. Each civilization sought its way of interpreting and understanding the present like a mystery full of possibilities ...”
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Course summary for: Strategies for Creative Photography
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Fine-Art Photography, Outdoor Photography
Julia Sbriller
A course by Julia Sbriller
Julia Sbriller is an architect, photographer, and performer who lives between Buenos Aires and Patagonia. She currently works as a photographer, curator, teacher, and cultural manager. She collaborates as a duo with Joaquín Wall, with whom she is part of Quimera Galería, dealing with themes related to the individual and collective body, the properties of light, matter, gravity, and their chances of encounter and the relationship between them.
Julia has participated in multiple projects, exhibitions, residencies, fairs, and festivals in Latin America and Europe. She is the general coordinator of Creadores de imágenes, a Latin American educational network, production and research workshop, publishing house, and artistic collective in movement; she is also co-director of INFO (Independent Art Fair of Photography) together with Luis Juarez and Estrella Herrera.
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