Research Deep Dive:
Annotated Readings, Artist Research, notes from gallery visits:
Link to annotated readings google slides and artist research and gallery visit notes (there was not enough storage to keep it on this website) : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HRUcSshguylj0FW3FAWe3x0Ix-n5kS9cEE4V9fqoK24/edit?usp=sharing
Link to playlist of relevant YouTube videos I have collected this year: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Lm-7Yx2KElXdVDK8nJe3zso_l9GrTQI&si=A7yse06Kj_BxE1D9
Key turning points
1. understanding poststructuralism: Foucault and also the situationists
2. Jessica Stockholder
3. The Aesthetics of Awkwardness by John Walter
4. To Hell with Culture by Herbert Read
5. Deciding to use the CYMK colour palette used in newspapers as a nod to situationism and my use of newspapers in my work for the fun bright colours. This also brings my work back out of the digital age, grounding it further in physical reality which is something I am always looking for new and more effective ways to do.
5. Elias Sime and Friedensreich Hundertwasser's eco-friendly and respectively different approaches to art.
6. Bauhaus vs Memphis furniture and considering architecture as the highest goal of art
7. Arte Povera and rebelling against traditional fine art materials
8. Slavoj Zizek, the waste problem will not be solved until ecologists love waste, rejecting "high" art materials in place for waste materials. Lossy and Jaggy text in terms of class considerations and political implications of different art materials.
9. Understanding Pablo Helguera's work on Socially Engaged Art through reading about Radio Revolten (1980). This led me to think about interactive art, and further about activating sculptures. The really important lesson was about the audience as author (see Roland Barthes) and considering the difference between manipulating an audience into a response vs. empowering them. Offering a curated space to be experienced vs. trying to force an understanding. Asking open questions (see Jessica Stockholder) vs. making claims.
10. realising how important presentation is. Presentation of the artwork becomes part of the artwork. This came up in a tutorial with David.
Influence of poetry
William Carlos Williams: "no ideas but in things" - making grounded poetry (I.E. making art objects instead of writing poetry).
Encryption and metaphor to bridge blind spots in people's perseptive differences. Can we "un-tower of babel" ourselves through hinting, poetry and metaphor?
Broodthaer's meticulous presentation
William Blake's poetry is metaphorical, self-referential, yet grounded in reality. This has been a conceptual model for me that has been really inspiring.
Sketchbook experimentation and design.
hand shelf/hand house.
I was going to display this as the main focus of my degree show exhibition but I ended up taking it apart and recontextualising it in a way that fit the space more appropriately. This was a risk and an ambitious thing to attempt.
Dream Hotline
This was an experimentation when I was interested in radio (specifically researching Radio Revolten). I quickly abandoned this project as it involved too much guessing and my interest in architecture, installation and sculpture superceded this. I may well return to it.
Glass and why I rejected using it (material research)
I decided against using glass as it went against my principles of using accessible waste materials. Sure, glass can be a waste material, but transforming it requires use of specialist equipment which is not usually accessible to the general public. I lost focus a little with glass. Part of me wishes I had made some more refined glass objects - it may have eradicated the rebellious streak in my works though. Maybe that rebellion could have been translated somehow. Either way, I ran out of time for it and decided it wasn't a priority. I did research it extensively though!
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