Topic 3: Community participation ‘In actual practice, how does a group of people become identified as a community in an exhibition program, as a potential partner in a collaborative art project? Who identifies them as such? And who decides what social issue(s) will be addressed or represented by/through them: the artist? the community group? the […]
TOPIC 2 Art and activism ‘Art activists do want to be useful, to change the world, to make the world a better place – but at the same time, they do not want to cease being artists. And this is the point where theoretical, political, and even purely practical problems arise.’(Groys, 2014) “Our lives are […]
RESEARCH POINT 1 Look up interviews with and texts about the British artist Lubaina Himid and Kerry James Marchall. ( Study material offers suggestions of youtube video to listen to, as well as other online sites, such as MOCA) I am asked to reflect in my learning log in writing or in the form of […]
11 JANUARY 2020 A local newspaper in South Africa wrote the following of above work in 1990: The artist stands outside society and scrutinises the historical and bourgeois norms, taboos and ideas of what art en-tails and disconcerts with its honesty. (https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/15043/Oppermann_Contrasting%282003%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) William Kentridge managed to stay away from politics, capturing a moral message or […]
These works are done on a daily basis – I do not expect any outcomes other than a continued process of drawing after a walk. I do not judge the works, but can see that it will influence further works. I am focussed on my actions and not necessarily what the experience represent. Walking is […]
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 […]
RESPONDING TO A SITE For Assignment four you will be asked to create a site-specific studio work in response to the topics covered in this part. Create a site-specific work in the medium of your choice. It can be phenomenological, social or discursive in nature. Decide how the work will be disseminated, recorded and documented […]
1 December 2020 6 December 2020 I think it is important to reflect for a moment – I do think material work and learning in my practice is developing. By working on the Momentum Workshop ( Sat 28 Nov, Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights) I have been looking more closely into the things I see. […]
Exercise 3.4: Thinking through the structure for the Parallel Project In Part Two you began to think about the Parallel Project and areas of your practice that you would like to develop further. Take a similar approach to that in Part One: Visual Mapping and spend some time mapping out initial ideas using your experience […]
16 November 2020 By now I started to read of the books my tutor recommended. I stood still at the paragraph where (p11) Monet’s waterlilies in the Orangerie is discussed. On page 10 with a conclusive remark that “extreme forms of realism in narrative began to set streams of consciousness free from people who were […]