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Mon, 7 January 2019 - Enquiry: Testing your Boundaries - LB

Enquiry: Testing your Boundaries - LB

7th Jan - 9pm GST

Relation to you as a maker

  • maker->object<-audience - they find the object - perhaps its been left somewhere.

  • maker ->object->audience

  • maker-> object-> audience multiple and various - who are these different audiences - what do they consume? why do they consume it? placing 'objects' in 'boxes' - think about what all these things actually mean?

  • maker -> audience-> maker-> object-> audience - participation, interaction, workshop or creation, demonstration, commercial, commision, is it specific or random, is it audience generated or artist-generated, who takes ownership, does it become a collaboration, can input be claimed as collaboration, how much input makes it a collaboration, who is then credited, is it still the artists work, what happens with remuneration, what happens when its deemed successful or unsuccessful, where does it go during or after,

  • maker-><- object-> audience - manipulation of the object, is the maker the audience of the object, is the object being changed after its been released in to the world, has the work failed or was it inbuilt to the object to be changed/returned, does it change over time, series or not fixed over time, like a signature piece that is always related to you

  • maker->object-><-audience - maker releases the object, the audience then returns the object or participates in it, changes it, relational aesthetics,

  • maker->object audience
  • ->audience - a different audience than expected, failure or success, a different type of success, changing the audience may be a part if the process, taking control and changing your audience,

maker->object->audience->maker->object - - experiment, audience inspires the artist to make a new object - communication, a type of rebellion, the object you really wanted to make but you needed to make the first object to lead to the making of the second object, a prototype,

maker->object->audience->maker->object ->audience---- iterations, a feedback loop with the audience, can you be the audience and the maker, can you be the maker and the object, could be insular,

maker->object->audience->object->maker - audience can affect the object and return it to the maker after it has been consumed, participation project, the audience changes the object actively but it is still attributed to the maker, does it have positive or negative connotations, scale of the audience has an effect on the object, triggering more making, supermarket capitalism?!

maker->object<-Audience - the first one? repeated? maker acts as facilitator for the project so the audience makes the artwork, who is in charge, the audience finds the object, is it another maker audience, public artwork, equal share with audience and maker, the object already has a relationship with the audience, serendipity, a moment, who would initiate the meeting or the be in control, it doesn't become an object until it is decided by someone that it is.

(triangle) audience<=>object<=>maker<=>
the fourth plinth - it already is an object but then commisioned to be added to and reviewed by a panel,
commision process - a conversation between audience, maker to create the desired object

maker<=> multiple audiences confined in to one circle - -- the object is missing, the audiences look different but they are the same, a conversation, podcast, panel, Q&A, a website, consumption of the artist themselves, art fair, pre-object, teaching, post-making, presentation, gathering of information,

maker<=> participants (in a large circle)----- performance, do you need an audience to make a performance piece, are participants making or are they sitting there?

maker-> participants -> objects------ workshop, teaching creation, artist studio, assistants, live moment and the object is the documentation, 4th plinth with Antony Gormley,

create a diagram that explains your relationship to your audience.

<insert diagram>

links to netflix handmade diagrams- get link from les for the diagrams - Limitless

my diagram was fairly simple in respect of reading whereas other members were very complex with a lot of links to various audiences, objects, makers and participants - did I need to add the threads? perhaps not but it felt right for me as the materials were next to the desk, if it was a digital diagram I would have created an animation, so express my desires and my thoughts. Why do I second guess the way I express myself - is this why I placed these distances in?

in break - make diagrams of the world we aspire to as a creative person -

How context frames an audiences reading of the work - see presentation shared by les

Context changes meaning or reading - ownership and territory,
systems and structures that mediate, how do we negotiate the senses, scale and reading of the work, Susan Vogel - the context of the display and how it is sited
museum - the difference between placeing wotk in a muesum than a library, the actions of a library or the people in the library, the gallery is a different aspect as you may get asked to 'shhh' or get followed by a gurd (my family) - the conventions of displaying artwokr - placing things on the floor which may have cultral connotations, or hanging (appearing within the gallery, with mystery, the wall (expected) or manipulted, the plinth - 4th and Mclean, the spotlight - to focus, highlight, define, The vitrine - the glass box, no touching, special, delicte, preserved, cased, The table - to sit around, domestiv, academic, to converse, an unrefernced table, The shelf - solitary, intimate, includeds a wall, back to the room, The HOME- (the moment when you relaise that an open studio will fufil the task), Within other systems - a camping situation, give and take, public arreas, public notice boards, cemetry, the space may have its own sense that could change the reading - what emotions doe the space bring to the reading of the work if palced in that area. The Artists book - intimate, revelation, sequences order control, video, pen drive, television (live transmission), online, Instagram, digital - monitor, digital - projection, New media - apps, (thought - to create an app that take s the lines from a image or the camera and transforms it in to the lines form, as you brush the screen it removes and fractures the lines down, holding a brushing will move them around, the more you touch the more it erodes the lines.) photography, documentation, Erwin Wurm - the action is the work, then its documented and that becomes the work, then getting people to reenact the work which is then documented, Process - , Performance, installation, Intervention - a space to work with, site-specific - steven willats, relational art or relational aesthetics, - context frames an audiences reading/understanding of work - how and where the work is experienced.

desert island disks, jermy della -

Mon, 15 October - Enquiry: Intersections and Articulations - Helen Rousseau Lecture

Enquiry: Intersections and Articulations: Helen Rousseau lecture and seminar (procrastination, testing things in the studio) - KF

Mon, 15 October, 5pm – 7pm

Helen Rousseau - 

sculpture & installation - structure, precision and chance encounter

materiality and speed - slowness of materials - temporal

Gilbert Ryle - the concept of mind

procrastinations manifesto - 

drawing as process - moving towards something - amplifying itself when in its own process

Nicola Tyson

Tom McCathy - how Marinetti taught me to write

Jane Bennet - Vital Matter

O'doherty - Studio and Cube

performance based practice - sculpture pulls towards this

Jan Verwoert - control I am Here - Curating and the Educational Turn (pronounced Yan VerVert)

Misreadings - Fred Sandback

APT london - Mariam Holm-Hansen

reading group - August Collective- 1 week

Caroline Wright, Jamie Lee Patel

Role of curator is a present happening.

KF- notes from seminar - 

Key points: Themes and questions arising from the session;

Practices that don't quite settle

Practices in and out of the studio

Finding value

Different engines of practice

Considering the quality and speed of materials

You can slow down an experience

What is the temporal condition of sculpture?

What is brought into being through the work?

Can you see the process within the work- is it inherent?

What definitions to we put on practice?

Questions from HR

  1. Where is the edge of the work> How are the limits of a work established? take a particular example(s) of work (own or others) you are familiar with and discuss
  2. How do you make use of/i=understand/consider the 'in-between' in relations to your own practices? Take a particular example

Break out room 1 - Helen Rousseau, 15/10/2018

Jo, Mark, Mozhdeh, Katie

Where is the edge of the work? How are the limits of a work established? Take a particular example(s) of work (own or others) you are familiar with and discuss.

Mark: I was interested in the idea of edges between artists and audience.  I like the idea of the gallery/studio space is open and accessible

And takes away curator issue

Jo and Mozhdeh spoke about accessing galleries and types of galleries and how accessible these opportunities are globally and regionally. How are they accessed?

Katie: Not necessarily where but more ‘Who’ actually sets the edges of the work? Does the artist have a say in it, or does the work and/or the viewer decide? Once the work is out of the creator's hands its edges are its own. Does the work need an ‘edge’? Can it be open? Who requires the definition of ‘edge’?  

Kimberley: Emergent practices

Not really an edge but a punctuation, a comma or a stopping point, a moment to breathe

Other notes:

Hermeneutics?

Gorden Matta Clark

Joseph Kosuth

Preoccupy

On Kawara Date Paintings - the moment that you experience the 'I wish I thought of that' - the boxes, the lettering, the language THE RULES!!! of the Rules! I love this capturing moment in an intricate simplicity. 

THATS WHAT IT IS I"M STRIVING FOR AN INTRICATE SIMPLICITY.

yes, Martin Creed, On Kawara

Karla Black - formal - composition form materials

Monday, 1 Oct 2018 - Tutorial - KF

Regarding the collage:

Incongruous

Gordon Matta-Clark  - I link to /James Turrell

Sam Griffin

How important is it that they existed before? this is about thinking how much the origins are important in the collages or images - could it be anything or is it in the details of the work already created or in specifically made images to deconstruct and reorder.

How important is it that it's my work?

film it & photograph

materials and interaction

thread of thought and connection, gathering, pull - rupture, a way of thinking

space -

&where we place ourselves -

planes - punching through and mapping

what happens outside the frame image & territory that is known - mapping

the territory of practice - table or frame

a photo of table & work, then sideways - multiview, what is beyond the piece - untangled threads, pulling away

google - the relationship of something I can’t grasp

What do I want? seeing the ‘other’ in it  

Manifesto- who you are

the lense

informing the work & the dialogue

& the entanglements of matter around the clarity & the perception

the knot & embroidery what is clear and ordered about the stitch and what is knotted and complicated. we discussed the difference between the front of embroidery and the back.

the unpicking

repetition & what is found

What do we overlook -

contain, contrast & leave out

tendrils

What is lost and what is found in repetition

Agreed actions:

  • explore collage further - continue with own work collage as that has urgency and explore the possibilities of found image collage, how does that change the work?
  • consider the territory of the work - where does it start and finish? what happens outside of these parameters? How does that affect the work? Consider the frame.
  • delve into the possibility of the thread and its tendrils, what does the repetition of embroidery do for the work? How does this thread metaphorically and physically move through and within it?
  • Keep notes of reflections and discussions I’m having about my work.
  • question scale and the imagery that is on the outside of the frame?


Contextual Essay - Wk 2 - 25/02/2018-03/03/2018

  • Week 2 Feb 25th Begin research reading and gathering, use Textile reader (Hemmings, 2012) and Everyday Reader (Highmore, 2002); texts related to touch, histories, colonialism, colour, routine, textile usage. Explore artists already working around my exploration. Mon 26 Feb: Writing Workshop

This week I realised I am trying to cover too many topic in my workThankfully I realised that now before I had embarked on a huge amount of research for the essay. After summarising myself fro the writing workshop and for a couple of application I am keeping my work simple - routine, repetition, disruption in an urban environment; how chaos interacts with the repetition of everyday life. Well, when I say simple I mean that it's not as diverse as it initially was by including socio cultural factors, race relations, post0colonialism etc... if an audience wants to see that in the work thats okay, but I'm going to leave it out of my own critique, for now anyway!So, I've since read through a couple of the essays in The Textile Reader, (Hemmings, 2012) regarding touch, everyday life in public spaces and fabric and usage. I will comment on them in a separate post once I have gathered my thoughts.To be honest this week has been overwhelming, the writing workshop went quickly and I felt somewhat put on the spot, this made me instantly loose confidence in my self as I didn't feel as grounded in my process as my course mates appear to be. The essay feels like its running at twice the speed of life and I can't keep up. I can't quite get my head around having a vague structure ready for next week. I am wondering if its me or the pacing of the course, the fact that all three assessed projects are started at the same time and running parallel feels crazy. 

IN PROGRESS - Professional Practice Plan - timeline

Deadlines:Monday 19 Feb: Visual Methodologies SeminarMonday 5 March: Tutorial CWMonday 14 May: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION13 weeks.....Professional Practice Plan (PPP)A working document that starts in year one and continues until you finish study. It is intended to act as a career plan, it is continually revised and kept current over the length of the course.In year one, the PPP is between 500 – 1000 words. Submitted for assessment in June 2018.The plan should be written to include the following, which should be used as a guide and is not exhaustive.1.A summary and map of your practice in professional terms.2.A plan that sets out your aims for one year ahead, three years ahead and five years ahead. It is about dreams and aspirations, but needs to be realistic.3.Includes identification of networks, notes on the need for skills or facilities acquisition, appropriate ways of presenting your practice (e.g. website)Each year the plan is re-worked, amended and added to.Headers for document:Profile BIO: Katie Venner-Woodbridge (b.1982, London, U.K.) is a conceptual mixed media artist living and working in Dubai, U.A.E. Venner-Woodbridge’s work explores the ways in which pattern and routine facilitate human life, but also the ways in which breaking patterns and systems can provide both opportunity or discontent. Through disassembling and reassembling patterns, her work examines anxiety and disruption as both positive and negative forces. It challenges the boundaries between beauty and awkwardness, and between manageable quiet spaces and the uncomfortable containment of chaos. Venner-Woodbridge has exhibited in various group shows in both the U.K and U.A.E.Personal DevelopmentBusiness card - important for networking in Gulf region.CV – relevant to artWebsite – katievennerwoodbridge.comSocial media links – insta, behance, twitter, fb, pinterest, dribble, blogs - how to develop them, which to develop and whyonline sales and promotion: society6, drawback, redbubble, pattenbank etccritical practice programme at tashkeel: funded opportunity.apply for residences and open calls etcComplete MA - most importantlyCommunity Future plans – applications: sikka, , Artist In Residence, research, postsecret (how do I get in), Critical Dialogues, CAD6.0, Project space M Proposal, JJ proposal residency, arts related job for stimulation.Research Proposal for ProfDoc - explore research further and make it more specific to arts.consider making it more focused. a smaller question. Contact tutor on course as she has offered mentorship regarding future application. feedback has already been very promising and was considered for supervising team.Reflection Need to put in time frame and concrete goalsbe aware of personal needs and development deficiencies.utilise help availablehave more confidence in what your doing and don't stop due to lack of confidence.Practical Issues Finances, location, access, family. TIMEself-doubt.career and availability of time and resources while managing job and family.

19/09/2017 - Readings for VL1: Reflexive Practitioner

Reading 1: James, N. (2010) Interviews – Artists Volume 2 Recordings 2010. London, CV Publications.

Pp.16-19 – Christiane Baumgartner –

Woodcuts of video imagery subtracted in to linear form to be visible from distance. – work is about speed, how we consume our surroundings with in speed and how ‘fast-paced’ life is slowing down.

Christiane Baumgartner, Transall, 2002, woodcut on Kozo paper, http://www.christiane-baumgartner.com/transall.html

Christiane Baumgartner, Transall, 2002, woodcut on Kozo paper, http://www.christiane-baumgartner.com/transall.html

Influences:

Gerhard Richter - abstract and figurative,

Paul Virillo – revolutions and speed. Contradictions – speed/slow, beauty/menace.

Research is from observation, gathers own materials and uses found material (newspaper photo), has researched technique, aware of history. Understands he contrast between the two, intrinsic to work. 

Reading 2: James, N. (2010) Interviews – Artists Volume 2 Recordings 2010. London, CV Publications.

Pp.6-12 – James Aldridge –Painter, graphic, silhouettes, nature, skulls, landscapes, lots of colour, mixed composition.

James Aldridge, Eye, 2013, acrylic on canvas, https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/751993

James Aldridge, Eye, 2013, acrylic on canvas, https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/751993

References – Japanese Art,

Raymond Pettibon,

Raymond Pettibon, Repeater Pencil, 2004, video installation, https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/213104

Raymond Pettibon, Repeater Pencil, 2004, video installation, https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/213104

Bird books – Ornithological guides,

James Aldridge, Circle, 2001, watercolour on paper. https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/496448

James Aldridge, Circle, 2001, watercolour on paper. https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/496448

heavy metal album covers/music,

folklore – belief & how that is manifested in images,

psychological space/atmosphere/feeling,

John James Audubon,

Renaissance frescos,

Schongauer print – leaves,

Martin Schongauer, Apanel of leaf ornament with two parrots and four other birds, Engraving, 1470-1474 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1432821&amp;partId=1&amp;people=108158&amp;peoA=10…

Martin Schongauer, Apanel of leaf ornament with two parrots and four other birds, Engraving, 1470-1474 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1432821&partId=1&people=108158&peoA=108158-2-60&page=1

Munch painting – hay,

Mandala colouring books – symmetry, spiritual symbolism, link back to heavy metal logos.

Research is integral to personal interests, ‘creeps in’ from out side of art. Authentic. 

Reading 3: James, N. (2010) Interviews – Artists Volume 2 Recordings 2010. London, CV Publications.

Pp.44-53 – Langlands and Bell –

Web of relationships between people, architecture and mass communication & exchange to negotiate changing technological world. Film, Sculpture, architecture, neons. Flight path – data collection – ‘relevant to me’

Langlands and Bell, Air routes of Europe night and day, 2001, http://www.langlandsandbell.com/portfolio-item/air-routes-of-europe-night-day-2001/

Langlands and Bell, Air routes of Europe night and day, 2001, http://www.langlandsandbell.com/portfolio-item/air-routes-of-europe-night-day-2001/

Research – observation – first hand gathering/exploring.

References show knowledge and awareness of art world:

Giovanni Bellini,

William Burgess – byzantine – mirror floor piece,

Langlands and Bell, (William Burgess Chapel) Reawakening, 2004 http://www.langlandsandbell.com/portfolio-item/reawakening-2004/

Langlands and Bell, (William Burgess Chapel) Reawakening, 2004 http://www.langlandsandbell.com/portfolio-item/reawakening-2004/

Oscar Niemeyer – architect, reference façade.

Relationships – research infiltrates their practice, ethics, work.

Conceptual war - in attendance, visits, first hand material research gathering. Research trips – Afghanistan, Rwanda

People, places, & experiences are their research, use it to inform themselves and then pass that message/ information on. 

Bibliography:

James, N. (2010) Interviews – Artists Volume 2 Recordings 2010. London, CV Publications.

Links:

Christiane Baumgartner, Transall, 2002, woodcut on Kozo paper, http://www.christiane-baumgartner.com/transall.html

Gerhard Richter, Phantom Interceptors, 1964, oil on canvas https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/photo-paintings/aeroplanes-19/phantom-interceptors-5538/?&categoryid=19&p=1&sp=32

Paul Virilio, quote http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1557856

James Aldridge, Eye, 2013, acrylic on canvas, https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/751993

Raymond Pettibon, Repeater Pencil, 2004, video installation, https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/213104

James Aldridge, Circle, 2001, watercolour on paper. https://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/496448

John James Audubon, American Bitternhttp://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america/american-bittern

Martin Schongauer, A panel of leaf ornament with two parrots and four other birds, Engraving, 1470-1474http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1432821&partId=1&people=108158&peoA=108158-2-60&page=1

Langlands and Bell, Air routes of Europe night and day, 2001, http://www.langlandsandbell.com/portfolio-item/air-routes-of-europe-night-day-2001/

Langlands and Bell, (William Burgess Chapel) Reawakening, 2004http://www.langlandsandbell.com/portfolio-item/reawakening-2004/

Oscar Niemeyer, Ministry of Education and Health, Brazil https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+ministry+of+education+oscar+niemeyer&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj805nj6brWAhWjAJoKHY-NDGoQ_AUICigB&biw=1344&bih=912#imgdii=HsfZRxBO4rA0fM:&imgrc=0aLO-aRBByu9MM:

Langlands and Bell, The Ministry, 2002http://www.langlandsandbell.com/portfolio-item/the-ministry-2002/

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