Louise Baker
230482
MF7004-30
Aspects of Contemporary Art Practice
230482
MF7004-30
Aspects of Contemporary Art Practice
3. Proposal
I will continue to research ways to synthesise the three strands of my practice – sculpture, performance and social engagement - through the embodiment of ideas, in the context of my ongoing research. I will continue my investigations into Self and Other (Jung, Freud, Shelley), Individuation (Jung), the uncanny (Freud), abjection (Kristeva), contamination anxiety (Kristeva and Douglas) and flow (Csikszentmihalyi) while also researching further the boundaries between various binaries – public/private, form/formlessness (Bataille), absence/presence, order/disorder (Douglas), life/death. I will also carry on exploring aspects of apparition, provocation and the sensorial in my work.
Using practice-led research methodology, underpinned with critical theory, I plan to continue working with metal and mould-making, together with knitting and stitch, to find ways to communicate complex meaning through careful synthesis of process, material, colour, form, surface, scale, assemblage, installation and setting. Since the start of the MA I have realised that performance is becoming a more significant part of my practice. My making is increasingly performative, as I now use my whole body to work with a range of different materials and my recent videoed performances have informed some of my steel sculptures. I plan to develop these performances, investigating further the use of video, photography and the options available to manipulate moving and still images. I also hope to cultivate the participatory elements of my practice and find ways to combine them with my sculptures and performances. I will research in more depth the work of artists such as Marcus Coates, Nick Cave, Bruce Nauman, Rebecca Horn and Steven Cohen who are also interested in identity, object and ritual and whose work has a similar multidisciplinary approach.
I’m imagining a glorious, visceral, immersive, participatory spectacle which syncretises the complexities of my practice into a coherent, interdisciplinary whole.
Using practice-led research methodology, underpinned with critical theory, I plan to continue working with metal and mould-making, together with knitting and stitch, to find ways to communicate complex meaning through careful synthesis of process, material, colour, form, surface, scale, assemblage, installation and setting. Since the start of the MA I have realised that performance is becoming a more significant part of my practice. My making is increasingly performative, as I now use my whole body to work with a range of different materials and my recent videoed performances have informed some of my steel sculptures. I plan to develop these performances, investigating further the use of video, photography and the options available to manipulate moving and still images. I also hope to cultivate the participatory elements of my practice and find ways to combine them with my sculptures and performances. I will research in more depth the work of artists such as Marcus Coates, Nick Cave, Bruce Nauman, Rebecca Horn and Steven Cohen who are also interested in identity, object and ritual and whose work has a similar multidisciplinary approach.
I’m imagining a glorious, visceral, immersive, participatory spectacle which syncretises the complexities of my practice into a coherent, interdisciplinary whole.
