CONSIDERING COLLABORATION, NEW MATERIALISM and DEVELOPING the BODY of WORK It became important to consider mushrooms and lichen as a subject matter, and look at their potential as a medium. From Tsing, I learned that collaboration could be ‘multi-sited‘. Opportunities to forage opened up in the winter of 2022. I saw the potential for involved […]
CONSIDERING COLLABORATION, NEW MATERIALISM and DEVELOPING the BODY of WORK I want to show the materials and processes I used to develop this body of work over time, starting with the PP till September 2022. Considering a collaboration with mushrooms as my making for this project: By now I had the opportunity to do more […]
CONSIDERING COLLABORATION, NEW MATERIALISM and DEVELOPING the BODY of WORK In this part I am using my research into the mushroom as material to consider making and working with. 4.1. INK from FUNGI Sheldrake writes about how hard it is for things to make sense to you, without a ‘little part of that something rubbing […]
ARTISTS WHOM I CONSIDER AND RESEARCH Artists I researched and were inspired by are Cy Twombly, John Ruskin, William Kentridge, Eva Hesse, Xiaojing Yan, Ian Kiaer, John Cage, Rodney Graham, Lynda Benglis, OCA-EU collaborating student group working as WWW, in particular Annette Holtkamp. This list will grow or change as I work on my project, […]
MATERIAL THINKING AND MAKING I LIKE OBJECTS I have a little cabinet, I call my wunder-cabinet, in my studio. I like to fill it with found objects, it changes over time and is always a place of inspiration for my making and ideas, see photographic images below which was taken at different times over this […]
INTRODUCTION In the study guide: The Parallel Project is a self-directed, extended project. The focus of this project is entirely up to you, although you are advised to use the ideas and approaches explored within the course exercises as a springboard to inspire your thinking and making process. You may work in the studio as […]
Research point 1: Sue Tompkins How do ‘form’ and ‘content’ in Tompkin’s work affect each other? For example, if the way the artist uses nervous energy, rhythm, repetition and movement to deliver her words were changed, would it have the same meaning? Do you think the attempt to separate the two is helpful in understanding […]
learn.oca.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/1124/mod_resource/content/1/part 1.pdf I feel frustrated that it took me so long to spend some time with this very valuable and useful document. I need to thank my tutor and OCA for this document. Finally I got the message and I am awoken to its meaning and content! Wow it took time to get into this. […]
But what of understanding, of being understood? Understanding what? Does it matter? Why should art be “understood” (and what does “understanding” mean in this context)?’ The quote in our study material is part of a fax conversation which took place during 22.08.98 – 02.09.98 and was taken from Barlow’s Book, Objects For…and Other Things, (2008, […]
24 August 2020 I had a positive and inspirational virtual meeting with my tutor to discuss her assessment of my work done in my learning blog for the first part of this course. I also wanted to discuss my temporary situation due to lockdown which is concerned with my access to the online course material […]