5 min presentations:
Art & Participation, Art & Disciplines, Art & issues, Studio: Studios can be limiting, set boundaries, regarding resources, materials etc. make decisions first before studio or after, studio times more of an affect on practice than we consider.
Art and Integrations: Can you make art regarding issues that are not related to you? Langland’s and Bell did. They became integrated in them.
Research - KVW
Regarding mapping territories, I am passionate about research but have a tendency to get lost and consumed by the gathering of knowledge. I’m currently researching the process of doing effective and efficient research to make sure I don’t waste time or get lost/distracted in information. The key, for me, is to find a balance between informing practice and producing an informed practice with outcomes.
Research as practice / practice as research – during – mutual - integral
Research of practice / practice of research – relationship – part of whole – dip in and out, different, gaining of knowledge or skills
Research is a skill that takes practice, time and training.
Research as practice - Way in which research is modeled by practical investigation
Examination of materials, tendencies, techniques, expressions, actions, ideas, opinions
In the view of Langland’s and bell – do they express opinion or present data? My opinion is that they tend to show data, the contrast to Emin, who is heavily personalized, bias and opinionated.
Art and research vs. academic research –Academic research looks to remove bias and emotion, I would argue that this is where art can differ in that some artists use bias, emotion and opinion to create work that tells a story from a certain viewpoint, or to provoke dialogue about a subject etc.
In general, a deep/thorough research practice builds confidence, generates ideas and progresses work. It allows the researcher/artist to understand their motivation, materials, ideas and context, and portray that in a concise way.
Links: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/practice-research-imprints-and-futures
Response in chat box:
AH19:30 Totally agree about the 'lost and consumed' and time dictates how far we go off on a tangent!
KO'L19:31 It is interesting that you link research as a skill and actually I never thought about it but it is. Depending on your subject matter you have to know where to look.
MC19:31 I agree about the research done by Langland’s and Bell, it is almost data and certainly not response
JV19:31 I know the feeling that research can be overwhelming
AH19:31 However, research is so exciting and opens so many doors...
JV19:32 there is so much to explore, so putting boundaries is the biggest challenge for me.
RT19:32 I often feel similar to you I think KVW, where I am excited to do research, but sometimes do not find the time for making after all that research. I was fortunate to see a performance on Friday, which drew upon exactly these issues. The artist had embarked on a few years research about a memorialist from Canada/the UK and gave a sort of performance on her research. https://www.darcywilson.org/the-memorialist/
EC19:32 I think its all a kind of research - the reading and the making
RF19:32 "Research as practice - Way in which research is modeled by practical investigation"...this is important in the art practice at any age. I feel hindered if I haven't researched enough.
KO'L19:32 It is interesting the place of research and practice and how much research is necessary before we start a piece of art.
KVW19:33 Yes, RT. I feel like I could spend years researching before producing NOTE TO SELF: DON'T DO THIS THOUGH
KO'L19:33 But practice I think should be regular.
MC19:33 I find the word research to be loaded and I don’t even know that I am doing it but wouldn’t admit to it because it feels to deliberate for me and not intuitive although that is the connotations I have rather than what I am actually doing
RT19:33 I also often feel that before I can make any work about a topic, I need to know its complete history to feel comfortable talking about it.
AH19:33 if we over research does our art become less unique?
JV19:33 at the same it can go together: doing research and creating at the same time
EC19:33 I think they have to happen together as much as possible
MLE19:34 I sometimes question whether the opposite of 'over-indulgent in personal art that’s responds to private things publicly can also be true in that can Art become too 'academic' where it is now lost to the viewer which is whom it was made for? Or was it?
MZ19:34 I just want to say something, over researching and be depend on others arts activity actually give a freeze mind which I think it's very important to keep it balance otherwise we never find our ways and language
RF19:34 @AH, I agree, but the lack of research can make art less authentic.
EC19:34 that raises the question of who is the audience MLE
KVW19:35 for some it definitely becomes intuitive research and for others its deliberate
MC19:35 Yes I think there is no formula to making art it depends on the artist
JV19:35 @RF: it could it also be the other way around?
KVW19:36 MLE, I completely agree, academic based art can create an elitism and exclude certain audiences
MC19:36 however it is important to be humble to new approaches and stepping into new zones and out of comfort
To Do:
Meet in groups of 3 – discuss questionnaire
Tutorial next week
Put work on journal or email by Thurs 12pm GMT
Task 1 – Pecha Kucha, don’t script, be live, will be timed.
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