research journal (MA and beyond)
linking contextual study to exploratory project: having just made a structure for my contextual study based on landscape and gender. my research for my exploratory project overlaps with my contextual study. landscape, identity, gender and irish poetry: last night i watched a programme on rté player discussing the irish poetry and its links with national identity, called... Continue Reading →
what: after an instructive writing workshop with Rosa Ainley last monday, i feel that for the contextual study to be useful and relevant for both my exploratory project and the direction i'm curious about exploring in my practice, i really need to tackle the area of landscape and gender. this is a huge area and... Continue Reading →
week 2, research and collecting: reading: spent the week sourcing texts and books related to gender and landscape; 'gendered landscape'. titles include Feminist Geographies by a women and geography study group, Gillian Rose's Feminism and Geography and Gender, Identity and Place by Linda Mcdowell. hopefully they will arrive next week. in the meantime i got hold of Rebecca Solnit's... Continue Reading →
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 →
elaine crowe 