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Tutorial reflection for Part Two

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Karen Stander

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 […]

SYP PART THREE PROJECT THREE

Posted on July 29, 2024 by Karen Stander

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, […]

SYP PART THREE Project One Drawing on Dialogues

Posted on July 29, 2024 by Karen Stander

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 […]

SYP Part Two: Project 5: CONTINUING SELF-MANAGED ART PRACTICE

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Karen Stander

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 […]

SYP Part Two: Project 4: A CULTURAL ECOLOGY

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Karen Stander

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 […]

PART TWO Project Three

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Karen Stander

SELF-MANAGED ART PRACTICE Exercise 6: Part One follow-up 1 week – 4 week Dedicate time to making and developing further from your Part One practice work. How can you extend and develop this? What strategies are working / not working so well? What do you need to keep making? Make notes and a simple proposal […]

PART TWO Project Two : ARTIST SUPPORT STRUCTURES – A RESEARCH TASK: LOCAL CONTEXT

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Karen Stander

Online research AVA—The Association for Visual Arts is a non-profit, membership-based arts organisation that aims to advance and promote South African contemporary art and artists. Their office is in Cape Town, my nearest city. I registered as a member while doing this research. Bell’s Vireo,” by Rosamond Purcell. The bird has woven bits of newspaper […]

PART TWO Project 1 Driven by Practice

Posted on June 11, 2024 by Karen Stander

Building resilience It is important to look back at Part One and use the learning as a platform to continue. Exercise 1: Time for making (tasks/activities which are part of my practice and support my continuing development of knowledge, understanding and skills to sustain my practice-research) I have a few projects running simultaneously. Some involve […]

Dancing imprints

Posted on January 25, 2024 by Karen Stander

I want to capture the dancers’ movements as imprints on a prepared surface. It is about embracing the unpredictability and spontaneity which will happen, allowing the dancers’ movements to guide the creation of a unique and expressive work, made on the floor as the surface. This surface is where the dancers move, becomes the canvas. […]

PART FIVE: Resolution

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Karen Stander

SELECTION OF WORK I want to consider the works below – they are all about nesting/nests and making 3D work for outside installation and drawing explorations of their form. I see the connection with nature as the nest of the sociable weaver and the connection to the wire work of artist Claire Falkenstein. Links to […]