In the approach the course took to have a discourse on perspectives and topics around Visual Culture, my thinking and material work developed questions around the interconnectedness of fragments as visual memories of place. Making workaround fragments comes naturally in my thinking and I could also see it as part of my daily walking practice. […]
The first draft for my tutor was shared on 23 and 26 April, after which changes to the writing style as well a discussion around key thinkers/theories I considered as well as how to introduce my question, was suggested. Final document was presented on 28 April 2021 and contains 2552 words, which exclude the references […]
My walking is about the exploration of place. Walking is an active process that can become a mind walk – I started considering landscape as that which can be created in the mind. The act of walking has to lead to repeated work in the studio – it started with looking into my collecting of […]
Look at what in the course I found particularly engaging and relevant to my work Look at what I would like to pursue in a more rigorous way About what am I curious? About what do I feel excited to explore it critically? What did I find problematic, would I like to unravel? PLAN: Have […]
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 […]
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. […]