research journal (MA and beyond)
ease and unease in the studio: in the studio again to work on a landscape image that i have been planning to do for someone for a while. the landscape means a lot to this person rather than to me, although i do know this landscape and have walked it. having explored colour related to... Continue Reading →
a bit of making: thought i'd do some screen printing for christmas - nothing about landscape's gendered framing! but art making all the same. happy to be physically engaged in a process where the outcome is not tied up with 'what it is doing or saying' beyond creating a physical card. sometimes success criteria is... Continue Reading →
how to access work: the best part of doing this review task was getting to see some of the many exhibitions i have been wanting to see but hadn't got around to. i wasn't sure what way to wanted to tackle this task but as i visited these exhibitions i became more interested in how... Continue Reading →
making rules: with RT leading today's making day, we started off by looking at some rules and manifestos by other artists - sister corita kent, marina abromovic, john age, dogma 95 etc. then made a list of some rules for today's making - experiment, have a spoken component, undo what is done, use a new... Continue Reading →
initial thoughts: i am about to begin a new task which focuses on audience and site. in thinking about audience and site, the idea of immersive experience comes to mind and also some conflicting thoughts on this type of work and exhibition. i recently saw Olafur Eliasson's 'in real life' exhibition in Tate Modern. i... Continue Reading →
MA3 bibliography(magenta) MA2 bibliography(green) MA1 bibliography(blue) Aitken, D. (2006) Broken Screen, Expanding the Image, Breaking the Narrative, 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken. New York: Distributed Art Publishers. Alaimo, S., Hekman, S. [eds.] (2008) Material Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press [online] At: https://monoskop.org/images/5/56/Alaimo_Stacy_Heikman_Susan_eds_Material_Feminisms.pdf (Accessed 28.12.19). Alexander, J.A.P. (2015) Perspectives on Place, Theory and... Continue Reading →
journey through blur landscape the hand and the margins: i spent the weekend experimenting with screen print bitmaps. i had a particular process in mind that i wanted to try using the 'wrong' side of the transparent film. over the years i have accidentally printed my bitmaps on the wrong (glossy) side of the transparent... Continue Reading →
questions about relationships: in preparation with a tutorial with MW, i have been trying to distill some of the key questions that i have been recently working on. i guess i can boil it down to a series of questions around relationships related to myself and the landscape - relationships between landscape as image and bodily... Continue Reading →
continued making - experimental rough cuts: i set the last few days aside for experimenting with stop/go animation to see what it might suggest in terms of landscape as still and moving image and all the things that i have been working through re landscape, body, image etc. no real outcome in mind except to see... Continue Reading →
who is speaking for who: i had an interesting discussion with fellow MAers about ethics in relation to making and showing work. one of the works discussed included Sam Durant's 'Scaffold' (2017) which highlighted the need for a considered (and ethical) approach to making and showing work. the discussion led to questions about who makes... Continue Reading →
homunculus: i came across an interesting thesis on embodied photography , which mentioned the counter argument of homunculus - an idea that came about during the enlightenment where different parts of the body are processed in different and separate parts of the brain, as seen in this diagram. the term homunculus means 'little man' and... Continue Reading →
provocation: i finally finished my provocation task. i decided to do a video presentation as i wanted to include some pauses for thought, some flashing images and some sound clips. like how its started to take shape although would have liked to have further refined the visuals and also added some more to the points. i... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 