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 […]
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 […]
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 When working on Part 5 different text alignment, font types and/or typography and ways of displaying a written document came to mind. I was thinking to make a visualization of my PP, which can become a work in progress to develop further after this course ends. I felt a need to move away from […]
Lines Squiggles and Webs PART ONE OF A TWO-PART WORKSHOP ( Saturday 30 April, next Saturday 28 May) The main ideas of the cross-disciplinary workshop are to investigate visual responses to music/sound, look at improvisation and explore the fine line between chaos and coherence. Soon into the workshop, we joined Carla by making along with […]
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 […]
PART OF KEEPING UP MOMENTUM SESSIONS ORGANISED BY PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENT HELEN ROSEMIER Tutor-led facilitation: Dr. Bryan Eccleshall Date/time Two 2.5 hour sessions on 9 and 30 October 2021 9 October session I could not attend. Bryan shared a document around a ‘translation game’ of which he was part and that gave me a clearer understanding […]