I had a zoom session with my tutor for her feedback. Overall feedback gives me confidence that I am grasping the work. Strong points are that I am good at analysing and synthesising key theoretical terms and “very good” at unpacking complex texts in turn. Material research and engagement with materials and processes are acknowledged […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
TOPIC 3 : SITE SPECIFICITY EXERCISE 4.5 PHENOMENOLOGY AND MINIMALISM Look up the writings of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and summarise three of their main points in relation to Minimalism in your learning log. I first educated myself with regards to how phenomenology and minimalism are defined. According to the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: […]
TOPIC 2: INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE EXERCISE 4.2 TRANSPARENCY Research the types of galleries and cultural institutions where you live. What are you able to find out about them? Record your findings in your sketchbook in a form you find appropriate. Are they privately or publicly funded; who runs them; who sits on the board; who works […]
RESEARCH POINT 1 Research some of the artists that subsequently emerge as a result of these shifts. Look up: Kurt Schwitters, Merzbau, 1937; Marcel Duchamp, 1200 Bags of Coal, 1938; Roy Lichtenstein, Stretcher Frame, 1968. Look at installation images of exhibitions by Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland and Helen Frankenthaler. Kurt Schwitters Below is a picture […]
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 […]