research journal (MA and beyond)
week 1, beginning: beginning a new project; an ‘exploratory project’ to challenge, take risks, experiment, reflect on successes and failures... making a plan. a project outline: answering some questions to give some kind of shape to my research and making; a place to start and a pace to work. what are my starting points: broadly speaking; movement, place... Continue Reading →
control of movement and institutions: after reading Gillian Rose's chapter 'Institutions and Ways of Seeing' (2001, in Visual Methodologies, An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials, p. 172 - 194), which outlines the ways institutions control what, where and how we see in order to exert and maintain control of power and knowledge, i... Continue Reading →
as a postscript to the 'mapping my terrain' task, i will try and respond to the feedback and questions that i was asked after my presentation of the task last monday, which i didn't get to answer. the questions are paraphrased. here goes....... was the task overwhelming? not at all, i just took it one... Continue Reading →
below is the final video map that i made for the task mapping my terrain (use full screen mode and full brightness mode if possible) https://youtu.be/4xFuel52K38 week 4 / final map: mapping my terrain elaine crowe below is the working processes and my step by step process for the task mapping my terrain. week 1: maps beginning the... Continue Reading →
a few thoughts that i take away after Claire Scanlon and Paul Grivell's engaging lecture last monday night. failure: the relationship of failure and risk taking with the process of exploration and discovery. scanlon and grivell expose 'failure' in their towner 'failure' project where unsuccessful proposals and works are laid bare - collected and published in a zine and exhibition.... Continue Reading →
am left with some questions to think about after stewart geddes generous lecture last monday. looking through his back catalogue of paintings I'm wondering if returning to past ways of working might be just as important as trying new ways. stewart asked us many times to recall our first impetus to make art and early... Continue Reading →
re-watching the video lecture 'archive to interview' and making some notes and observations... yes -the difficulty with online research especially imagery means that scale, dates, materials and context of work can be omitted and hard to decipher. i think rushed and superficial research is an inevitability of a digital age and somethng i'm guilty of.... Continue Reading →
my xmas was spent with family in australia. although the sum total of my art making involved making glitter slime with my nieces, i did manage to see a great exhibition of pipilotti rist's video installation work in sydney's museum of contemporary art. i also saw some work by other contemporary australian and aboriginal artists... Continue Reading →
https://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/geog/021/001/massey.pdf a text that i return to again and again is Doreen Massey's 'a global sense of place' in 'space, place and gender' (1994). This text was written in 1994 by the geographer Doreen Massey. it sets out Massey's arguments for how to define place and develop a sense of place in a postmodern time... Continue Reading →
carborundum printing: had a great weekend at graphic print studio in dublin learning a new printing technique using carborundum. one of the many print techniques i want to develop. great scope to experiment with mark making, texture and colour. lends itself to landscape... ordered a new bench printing press so i can work away myself.... Continue Reading →
'experiment 4': still from a short video piece i made as part of form, fracture frame. i came across an article on landscape, space and gender in an irish context and its post-colonial identity by Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch. seems somehow relevant as a frame for my form, fracture, frame task (experiment 4). referring to the past i... Continue Reading →
'P45': following up on monday's class discussions about the climate for art making here, i had a great chuckle at laura fitzgerald's video piece 'P45' about the state of a viable art practice: the cycle of studio, applications, rejections etc, all to the neglect of home, family and 'a decent fucking job'. enough to make... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 