[artinfo] #whataboutyourselfie

[Ana Peraica]

Contribute to our debate on differences between classic
    self-portraiture and ’selfie’ starting February 1, 2016 on various
    network platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google*+* and Youtube,
    by adding the hashtag #whataboutyourselfie or by sending an e-mail
    contribution to *whataboutyourselfie at gmail.com

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    Self-portraits, since ancient times, have broadcasted a variety of
    private issues of artists' lives. They reported on, for example,
    processes of aging in the classic, drawn and painted self-portrait
    serials of Vermeer or Rembrandt, illness in the photo-works of Jo
    Spence, and identity crisis and mediated identities in photographs by
    Cindy Sherman. In each of them the relationship of subject/artist to
    audience is dynamic, based on psychological mirroring, empathy and
    identification.
    Two types of self-portraits may be distinguished, with regard to audience;

(1) tautological, addressing no public at all, and

(2) relational, asking for a relationship with 
the public. Contemporary social media
    ’selfie’ phenomena prefers a monologue, diarist type of self-portrait that
    performs an exposure rather than truly uncovering.
    This project invites relational self-portraits and links to
    self-portraits or their collections that:

¬  force us to research our own selfhood

¬ are made as homages and references to other’s identities

¬ are ’self-portraits as someone else’ in terms of travesty and cross-dressing

¬ mirror the viewer by specific implementation of technology or medium.

For more information see *whataboutyourselfie.info

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dr. sc. Ana Peraica
independent scholar and freelance curator ¬
PERISTIL bb
21 000 Split¬
Croatia¬
tel: +385 21 344646
fax: +385 21 320284
anaperaica at gmail.com
www.atelierperajica.com