research journal (MA and beyond)
(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 →
https://youtu.be/V7GvIKShG-4 (experiment 1) following or breaking rules of movement: adverse weather conditions and a lot of snow had me walking down the middle of the road yesterday which is usually out of bounds. this seemed to connect with some ideas i have been thinking about relating to landscape, movement and gender. landscape has a prescribed... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
elaine crowe 