research journal (MA and beyond)
landscape & gender: 3d materials and processes: starting to consider exploring landscape & gender in some 3d form. stocked up on object making materials - about as 3d as i can get; herculite plaster, terracotta clay and magma white clay which i could fire later. something about walking in the landscape during the snow has me... Continue Reading →
(image: anna livia plurabelle. dublin) doing some reading research for my contextual study and exploratory project. i'm reading through some of the chapters related to landscape and gender in 'Gender, Identity and Place' by Linda McDowell (1999). in her chapter 'Gendering the Nation-State' (p.170 - 202), McDowell raises many points related to some of the... 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 →
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 →
just checked out some art in the museumof contemporary art while here in sydney. the main exhibition running is pipilotti rist's sip my ocean - a collection of her work from over the last decade or so by the swiss video installation artist. Sip full of multi-video sound and vision installation to immerse body and... 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 →
decided to keep making and keep printing today. finished the lino cuts, rubbings and then printed a few together. yes better as a series than separate. better a softer colour also. next step overlapping? might also revert to drawing - overlap drawings, continuous line drawings? just printed a small edition of 5 until i figure... Continue Reading →
early start to a making day. for some reason worked in silence. spent time working on a series of lino prints of furniture stored in the shed from my grandparents home. unhomed chairs. as i worked, i began to consider the direction and position of the furniture. maybe position and direct along lines of gender?... Continue Reading →
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).
elaine crowe 