research journal (MA and beyond)
permission to move. by law. reluctance to move. by unlawful acts. what keeps us in? same place, same place. day and night. (images: same place same place. 2017. e.crowe) fear, safety, threat. real or imagined. degrees of mobility determined by gender. (Massey, a global sense of place, 1994. p. 2. https://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/geog/021/001/massey.pdf).
http://www.dayandgluckman.co.uk. looking at the project 'a woman's place' curated by Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman. 20 female artists reflecting and evaluating the status of women in the 40 years since UK's enactment of the Sex Discrimination (1974). selected works explore the omission and gaps in the historical narrative, the passive voice of the domestic female,... Continue Reading →
Arts Tonight (2015) Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising. RTÉ Radio 1, 2nd November: 20.00 [radio online] At: http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=b9_10484617_1538_02-11-2015_ (Accessed on: 30.03.18). Baudrillard, J. (2018) Baudrillard, Hyperreality and Simulacra. [online] At: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/courses/phi4804/baudrillard1.htm. (Accessed on: 15.03.18). Beaumont, C. (1997) 'Women, Citizenship and Catholicism in the Irish free state, 1922-1948' In: Women's History Review, 6:4, pp. 563-585.... Continue Reading →
questioning the use of the personal object. personal object relating to a subjective meaning or personal object relating to a universal symbol? personal object relating to a personal past or personal object relating to a shared past? (image: how to leave a natural sphere. 2017. video installation. e.crowe).
just back from a production of 'the sin eaters' by anú theatre. the sin eater: a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to take on the sins of others. personal stories of trauma - within the home, within the body, within the state... food for thought.
jug. object of service. essential or redundant? (image: jug. 2017. screen print. e. crowe).
work or play? asking questions about movement and the domestic sphere
filled with questions tonight on possible starting points for research and making. perhaps start close to home. domestic things benign and threatening. (image: scissors. 2017. screen print. e. crowe).
listing all the things I do in my studio. sometimes its the 'first frame' for my work (Buren, 1979). sometimes it's the last frame. mostly I'm moving somewhere in the middle. sometimes I'm not there at all - starting and ending beyond the studio.
primal home (2015) reflecting on participatory involvement - as artist and as audience. sometimes an accidental participant. often a reluctant participant. possibly always an enriched participant. recalling walking as a participatory art practice and its possibilities (images: primal home, 2015, accidental participation and collaboration in the making of work with my mother).
lots of reflection and research today. how I make. why I make. what I make..... make time for making.
reading artists' interviews tonight. thinking about thinking. thinking about making. thinking about the ironing.
elaine crowe 