From the study material: You will be introduced to a variety of short texts, some that you will be guided through in depth, others that will be offered more like a taster for ideas that whet your appetite. It is possible that an essay from a particular author or anthology resonates with your work and […]
11 November 2020 I will start a daily drawing practice as of today. Early morning I made a quick drawing whilst looking at the glowing morning sun. I want to make daily drawings. I can explore vulnerable and fragmented ideas. Words and reading excite me, it also put me in a place where I need […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Modern art by 1960 saw rising ideas by artists that form could be expressive even if it became divorced from appearances, example would be abstract art. Sontag writes when art was dominated by Formalism, but moving towards Postmodernism. I want to consider her discourse as a reaction to American art critic, Clement Greenberg, the Freudian […]
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. […]