27.10.20 with Andrea
For this module, I need to isolate a position for my practice. I said I had been looking at Joseph Beuys and social sculpture and also Fluxus. Are these relevant to my practice? Wher does my work fit?
Consider and concentrate on 2-4 artists.
Maybe concentrate on sculpture and my socially interactive practice?
I talked about Boltanski who said that many artists have only one idea. Should I focus on just one idea? I also talked about my practice having parts
-making
-facilitating
and maybe progressively
-performance?
Andrea said look in more depth at Kristeva and Butler, and also embodiment. I also mentioned Mary Douglas and 'matter out of place' and links between the abject and the uncanny.
Also, whose body am I investigating? The body of the artist? Is it gendered? (patriarchal, market based, political?) Is it cultural- artist vs scientist vs IT? And the materials and processes I've used - are they still/truly gendered? (Think of the history of knitting and fisherMEN knotting nets, Andrea's grandfather knitted (East/West) Also industrial revolution and male textile factory workers. Is knitting a feminine gesture?
Make work that is transgressive and what it is to be disembodied.
Look at Bruce Nauman.
Is art capable of producing permanent change? Are these Avant Garde ideas? Think about such things as globalisation, Islamic fundamentalism, politics. I mentioned that art movements often seem to parallel social and political change. What am I trying to do? What kind of change to I want to make? (Do I even want my work to have a political/social/economic impact?)
We then talked about shoes, their importance in terms of identity, comfort, fetish .... and Andrea's 'research boots'.
For this module, I need to isolate a position for my practice. I said I had been looking at Joseph Beuys and social sculpture and also Fluxus. Are these relevant to my practice? Wher does my work fit?
Consider and concentrate on 2-4 artists.
Maybe concentrate on sculpture and my socially interactive practice?
I talked about Boltanski who said that many artists have only one idea. Should I focus on just one idea? I also talked about my practice having parts
-making
-facilitating
and maybe progressively
-performance?
Andrea said look in more depth at Kristeva and Butler, and also embodiment. I also mentioned Mary Douglas and 'matter out of place' and links between the abject and the uncanny.
Also, whose body am I investigating? The body of the artist? Is it gendered? (patriarchal, market based, political?) Is it cultural- artist vs scientist vs IT? And the materials and processes I've used - are they still/truly gendered? (Think of the history of knitting and fisherMEN knotting nets, Andrea's grandfather knitted (East/West) Also industrial revolution and male textile factory workers. Is knitting a feminine gesture?
Make work that is transgressive and what it is to be disembodied.
Look at Bruce Nauman.
Is art capable of producing permanent change? Are these Avant Garde ideas? Think about such things as globalisation, Islamic fundamentalism, politics. I mentioned that art movements often seem to parallel social and political change. What am I trying to do? What kind of change to I want to make? (Do I even want my work to have a political/social/economic impact?)
We then talked about shoes, their importance in terms of identity, comfort, fetish .... and Andrea's 'research boots'.