AGENCY = According to Karen Barad “agency is not held, it is not a property of persons or things; rather, agency is an enactment, a matter of possibilities for reconfiguring entanglements. So agency is not about choice in any liberal humanist sense; rather, it is about the possibilities and accountability entailed in reconfiguring material-discursive apparatuses […]
I am busy with my draft and will also use the blog to reflect on my progress in order to refine the research question (s) and developing longer pieces of text that articulate and support my position – the idea to get to a critical investigation. I am building up my bibliography and keeping in […]
“The Arc de Triomphe is taken away from our gaze and at the same time overexposed to our gaze. This subtraction and this overexposure lie at the core of the work. Thank you, Christo, for offering us the gift of looking in another way, in a new way, at masterpieces built by other artists.” […]
I looked at an article written by Graeme Sullivan, Research Acts in Art Practice (2006) What intrigued me is that he refers to a question arts-based researchers have: Can artistic forms be used as the basis for educational inquiry.? and What kind of research acts are characteristic of, and familiar to, art inquiry and art […]
These notes were important when I looked at Project 1 in terms of developing an argument or position. I read a pdf by Tim Ingold, Lines, a brief history (2007). In Chapter Two, I found a drawing by his father, C.T. Ingold, which shows Fungal mycelium. Ingold reminds us that much of the lines of […]
PLAN KEY ARGUMENTS I HAVE SETTLED ON (750 word text) Researching ideas around practice-led research showed me that it is a form of generative enquiry that draws on subjective, interdisciplinary and emergent methodologies. My perspective is based on the idea that human life is entangled in many relationships and that these theories can be explored […]
I am referred back to the book, Critical Thinking Skills around how arguments are stated by considering questions to test their position. Looking for intentionality to persuade due to vested interest is essential. I would say that most views would have some form of biased in terms of political, cultural or ideological perspectives. I think […]
My Research Material which relates to Project 1 of PartThree in the course (last updated on 28 July 2023) This is a form of sorting and archiving the materials I work (collect, encounter, see, photograph, take sporeprint,make mushroom ink, paint, draw, write about). This is learning about the diversity of the species to me. I […]
My tutor suggested I look at her work to research ideas into Alchemy. In my research of this artist, I learned that her work exists at the interstices of time, alchemy, and natural materials. It can also be seen as an event when these works are made, almost as Pollock’s drip painting technique. She applies […]
My tutor suggested I look at this Cuban-born artist after reflecting on the ongoing nature of my making. She told me to look at Earthbound by Ana Mendieta as connection to explore further thinking about care and healing in my practice. Earthbound was an exhibition of 14 works shown in 2019. The collection at Galerie […]