5.3.20 Tutorial with Dexter
1. Facilitating situations/ participatory- wearable sculptures, For Art's Sake, 'How do I capture the moment?'
Static/active - response, behaviour... identity. Wearing them enables people to think differently. Selfies? Not just young people! What's the difference between quirky wardrobe and my interactive situations? When I'm present, facilitating something? How about buying Superhero outfits?
2. Wider context: recognisable historically as 'big knit' installation. What is different about what I'm doing?
3. Participatory installations: Space, invite people to interact...touch, add, impact others....
4. How to move the form of what I've done forward? What on earth am I going to do next? My faciltatory art is not very on trend? Too feel good. Involving identity politics.... not so much about making objects, not sellable. Like Tate Exchange?
5. How about live art: PhD students. Viola and listening to paper. Scores, instructions?
6. Forcing change in your work... you can make that decision, but its hard when your practice is established. Why am I doing an MA?
7. Brain proposal vs MA? Nicola Turner, just did it. (Talk to her) Can it be assessed? Talk to Robert.
8. Clear out the studio: Draw a line. Make the best thing I can possibly do at this time. Make a one off thing, your 'major masterpiece'; the most beautiful or the most abject? Step outside your comfort zone, remove the buffer. Try it without knitting. Try studio work doing other things, a sculpture that isn't quite this. Go off on a tangent. How can i get to be happy enough with the work I make with other materials? Just do it! Let the work lead you.
9. Concrete: scale, mid tone, links to what I'm already doing. Use ideas of colour to bring physical feeling... Found materials. 'The idea of colour', 'as if its knitted.' 'Trust the process.' Let materials lead me.
10. Textiles and flesh/ concrete and ubiquity: Equivalents in the world. Set up a different combination of things. Free standing versus hanging (the flop factor!) Thing of something freestanding or floor based.
Malanani Mucachuk(?) Heavy knit in 80s and 90s. Show in NY recently. Not quite human. How to present them? Heavy hemp.
11. Not knitting? Impose that on myself? How can I do that?
Static/active - response, behaviour... identity. Wearing them enables people to think differently. Selfies? Not just young people! What's the difference between quirky wardrobe and my interactive situations? When I'm present, facilitating something? How about buying Superhero outfits?
2. Wider context: recognisable historically as 'big knit' installation. What is different about what I'm doing?
3. Participatory installations: Space, invite people to interact...touch, add, impact others....
4. How to move the form of what I've done forward? What on earth am I going to do next? My faciltatory art is not very on trend? Too feel good. Involving identity politics.... not so much about making objects, not sellable. Like Tate Exchange?
5. How about live art: PhD students. Viola and listening to paper. Scores, instructions?
6. Forcing change in your work... you can make that decision, but its hard when your practice is established. Why am I doing an MA?
7. Brain proposal vs MA? Nicola Turner, just did it. (Talk to her) Can it be assessed? Talk to Robert.
8. Clear out the studio: Draw a line. Make the best thing I can possibly do at this time. Make a one off thing, your 'major masterpiece'; the most beautiful or the most abject? Step outside your comfort zone, remove the buffer. Try it without knitting. Try studio work doing other things, a sculpture that isn't quite this. Go off on a tangent. How can i get to be happy enough with the work I make with other materials? Just do it! Let the work lead you.
9. Concrete: scale, mid tone, links to what I'm already doing. Use ideas of colour to bring physical feeling... Found materials. 'The idea of colour', 'as if its knitted.' 'Trust the process.' Let materials lead me.
10. Textiles and flesh/ concrete and ubiquity: Equivalents in the world. Set up a different combination of things. Free standing versus hanging (the flop factor!) Thing of something freestanding or floor based.
Malanani Mucachuk(?) Heavy knit in 80s and 90s. Show in NY recently. Not quite human. How to present them? Heavy hemp.
11. Not knitting? Impose that on myself? How can I do that?