Contextual Essay - Wk 4 - 11/03/2018-17/03/2018

  • Week 4 Mar 11th Continue with reading, reflect immediately to stay on top and compare with each other and practice - make links, why is it relevant? - Mon 12 Mar: Tutorial AR  

  CONTEXTUAL ESSAY TUTORIAL FEEDBACK:draft title: ‘The Material Culture of Everyday Life, using materials to sway emotion and confine chaos’.Define terms – Sway – to have an affect.Looking at list of artists narrow down to four that are more pertinent: currently considering Kiyonori Shimada & Machiko Agano as aspiring practice regarding installation and immersion, Ealish Wilson & Liz Nilsson relating to current position of practice and made artifacts, shared concerns, 3D spaces in drawings/2D works etc.Address the question ‘why is it important to me?’ rather than being confessional as this is uncomfortable for me make it into an issue of contemporary life. What does the work do, or creating the work do? Calming impact, emotions and confining chaos through making.Structure: Draft titleIntro: why you want to look at it ‘it’s a contemporary issue’, data points (calming emotions and confining chaos)2: ‘I’m going to look at these two pairs of artists….’3: discuss how their work does what I/they say it does4: how it relates to my work OR bring my work in to the previous two sections5: impact on my work6: Conclusion – go back to title & intro – reiterate why its an important issue and summarize why they do what was asked.QUOTES: two good ones – from philosophy, news, research.