Exploring Curation Strategies and Creating Content In a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, the co-director of the Serpentine Galleries in 2016, he shared a favourite definition of curating from the English writer J. G. Ballard. He said Ballard told him this in their last conversation, just a few months before he died: “A curator is […]
Anna Hepler (b 1969- ) Hepler was a professor of art at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, but she has lived and worked on an island off the coast of Maine for the last four years. The work below drew me to research this artist more. I hoped to understand why and how she explored with […]
Introductory thoughts During our tutorial session on Part Two of the work, my tutor suggested I delve into Foucault’s ideas on Space and Heterotopias. This was a transformative moment to understand how spaces function and how this will deepen the theoretical underpinnings of my practice and assist in creating a more impactful exhibition. Regarding curation […]
Main points to take from the general discussion.Research suggestion around contextualising my making with wire.My tutor’s suggestion to delve into Foucault’s ideas on Space and Heterotopias was a transformative moment. She will share a pdf with me. In the meantime, I read an eight-page pdf (Foucault and Space, (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320184686_Foucault_and_space/fulltext/59d384a90f7e9b4fd7ffb2c5/Foucault-and-space.pdf) and share the following notes as […]
Making, testing and prototyping Thinking about a body in a nest – layer the work with meaning. It also takes me to the work of Ana Mendieta, whom I studied earlier in the course. I consider her Silueta series, which she did from 1973 to 1980. She would lay somewhere in nature in this work, […]
The curators @ RASA are looking at hanging sculptures for Solo Studios based on the lessons from Prouvost’s installations. We will use interactive workshops for making. I would like to add soundscapes to my work during this exhibition. Prouvost works with installation, sculpture, painting, textiles, sound, and moving images. Our work is based on pictures […]
I expect this course module to focus on researching and critiquing models and methodologies related to curation, encounters, and exhibits. I plan to have my exhibition as part of my studies by the end of October 2024. I am looking at the last weekend in October as a good time. (last quarter of the moon […]
Here are a few views of the nest on my studio wall. I can manipulate the form and make the nest fold over itself when I hang it against the wall. Compared to the idea that wire is rigid, I know the material’s ‘floppiness’. A bird nest in nature comes to mind—this form is solid […]
I want to describe a making day – making and listening to podcasts. (I am alone today, and my only other obligation is to keep the Aga stove going—I have no issue with this, as it also keeps me comfortable.) From around 8:15, I start working. I sit on a couch in front of the […]
Exercise 7: Cultural Ecology REFLECTIVE NOTES I prefer to consider how my peer support networks, artist engagement with the community, and opportunities in my own town/village could be useful. Harker writes “In its dictionary definition, ‘ecology’ refers to a branch of biology that deals with ‘the relations of organisms to one another and to their […]