2. 28th February 2011. Caroline Wright.
Professional Context. Synchronous Seminar.
The professional journal includes aims and aspirations – how you see yourself developing. Documents what you will do in art practice - keep up to date with MA course.
Which to extract for Visual Enquiry / Professional Context.
Complete piece of work - constituent parts –
Process, decisions, reading, - inward – VE
Positioning work, context, concepts, artists, presenting – outward – PC
Research what journal might be....
Record all applications, submissions, attempts, failures in PC – everything outwards.
Journal may be divided – crossovers. Curating written blog – any form.
Artist Carey Young interrogates corporate world, commerce, business. Requirement to fulfil certain levels – qualifications, behaviour. The Value? What constitutes professional – examines innate knowledge. Evidence of success embroidered in artworks.
Production – are we defined by what we make exist? Process to exhibition – quality control? Evidence...
Value – who makes judgement – art criticism – gives validity, profiling, etc.
Identity – role, responsibility – where does it lie – ourselves/viewers – meaningful.
Tacit knowledge – intuitive – Michael Polanyi (reading) – hunches, guesses, imaginings.
Schom – Reflective Practitioner – Reflection in Action.
Ongoing learning – evidence. Self criticise.
What a professional artist and practice is now in 2011 MA Fine Art.
Engaged and responsive to research.
Reflection
Further distinctions between Visual Enquiry and Professional Context. I am hoping I have set up systems which will make these accessible easily, and am backing up online, and printing out so that I can keep track and rearrange if needed. So far the MA has been very much about organisation, understanding what there is to organise, and anticipating how I may need to reorganise things later. I am anyway now convinced of the blogging process, but will keep it within the MA. I think if one blogs further afield, there must be some quality and quantity control. I have been looking at and browsing other artists blogs, and frankly, think the practice could do with tightening up in some respects. Blogs are often difficult to negotiate and read, and have much unedited stuff and limitless links. There is good practice - I think blogs need to be quite pithy and clear - not everyone wants to read screeds of streams of consciousness.
What a professional artist and practice is now in 2011, MA Fine Art?
In the seminar this exercise was a little messy, but is one of those questions, like what is art, which can be infinitely answered. Many answers are aspects of the whole - there is probably no one definitive answer, equally, each artist has their own definition of the profession, the career, success, value, and so on. Always worth asking, always worth examining and attempting to answer and define.
20th March 2011
In the seminar this exercise was a little messy, but is one of those questions, like what is art, which can be infinitely answered. Many answers are aspects of the whole - there is probably no one definitive answer, equally, each artist has their own definition of the profession, the career, success, value, and so on. Always worth asking, always worth examining and attempting to answer and define.
20th March 2011
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