PART FIVE: WORKING WITH TEXT

PROJECT 1 WORKING WITH TEXT Exercise 1. Cut-up technique Use Link 38, notes on points of interest in a talk by Ken Holdings: a cut-up can disturb a cut-up can be comic a cut-up and be strangely beautiful a cut-up reveals words and machines operating in strange ways a cut-up is started as an experiment […]

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PART 4. PROJECT ONE

REIMAGINING THE CANVAS De la Cruz refers to the grandiosity of painting. On the Lisson Gallery website I read: “The moment I cut through the canvas I get rid of the grandiosity of painting”, she says. ( https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/angela-de-la-cruz) On the Tate website, I found the following description for plane/picture plane: A picture plane refers to the […]

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PARALLEL PROJECT: PART ONE

INTRODUCTION This project was done alongside the course material and became a journey into the Fungal Kingdom. From the onset of this project, I was guided by my tutor to consider collaborative agency and read Vibrant Matter by Janet Bennet to assist in my contextual thinking and making process. Making was seen as a reflection […]

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PART FIVE Transformation

TOPIC 1 POLITICAL DIMENSIONS In the course material I read the following: In this topic, you will examine the practices of artists who use their work explicitly or implicitly to address social and political concerns using visual means. They may seek to uncover past or present injustices or shift personal or societal attitudes. Rather than […]

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REFLECTING ON TUTOR FEEDBACK FOR PART 3

11 November 2020 My tutor shares concerns that she found too a big seperation between making and theory. (I am at a point where it seems my material making is not enough to make it through the course). I urgently need to find the balance between praxis and theoria. I will comment on the assignment […]

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PART FOUR: SITE (TOPIC 1)

TOPIC ONE THE WHITE CUBE Exercise 4 Display To the contemporary artist, this is quite an unfamiliar approach. Look at your work in the studio, choose a work – it could be finished or in progress, if it is on a table, place it on the floor, or if on a wall, or in a […]

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ASSIGNMENT THREE

From the study material: “Look back over your sketchbook and learning log so far and reflect on what has shifted in your thinking. For this assignment, you will create a studio work in the media of your choice that draws from what is located outside of your direct experience. So, like Derrida, you could try […]

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PART THREE: RESEARCH POINTS

General comments on the work below. In this part of my studies, when I started the reading for Research Point 2, I decided to first continue with the exercises of the Topic Experience and Authenticity and then come back and fill in the details and start writing them. I did the same with Research Point […]

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PART THREE: VOICE

Topic 1: Experience and authenticity Identity In the study material on Identity I read the following: “The debates at the time around authenticity, appropriation and authority that Love raises in her essay ‘The Experience of Art as a Living through of language’ are equally relevant today.” I looked at the artwork shown in the study […]

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Harvard referencing system

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. […]

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Assignment One

DAILY PRACTICE During my reading and research for this first part of UVC 2, I became aware of ideas around a practice of doing things repetitively, whether it is deliberate or unintended, action that flows from it. I love walking in nature……where I collect ‘physical objects’. Do I do it out of habit? What pushes […]

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Reading list during the course

Researching texts required to read as well as extra reading during this course will be journaled here. I will also use my sketchpad for notes…hope the thinking will become more integrated into my work PART ONE Lisa le Feuvre Failure Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art 1. I downloaded this on SCRIBD on June 29, 2020. […]

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Level 3 Group session

WIP Growing mycelium into a face form I started this process weeks ago with 2 faces. One had a great mushroom flush within 2 weeks, but the body/construct was crumbling so I discarded it for recycling (composting another work which is outside in the garden). It seems the growing medium should have much more paper […]

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Decomposing our collaborative work

This part of the body of work which I present as a separate blog started in September 2022 and will be ongoing by the time of the final Assessment date I need to comply with. (15 October 2022) I present it as a form of documentation about how my understanding of my making developed in […]

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PARALLEL PROJECT PART THREE ARTIST RESEARCH

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, […]

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PARALLEL PROJECT PART TWO MATERIAL THINKING

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 […]

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