Date: 23rd May 2011 Tutor: Angela Rogers
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Reflection on outcomes since last tutorial
This tutorial mainly focussed on VE project, Form Frame Fracture, upcoming Mapping the Territory and general progress and future plans.
Actually, I had forgotten how uplifting it can be to have a positive conversation in support of my work! So much of work is about solving problems, identifying details, creative endless lists of stuff to be done. Even though I knew it myself, a little reassurance that I am keeping up and doing enough in the MA goes a long way. It is a trajectory, and amazing that it has only been active in the last few months - 14 weeks. It is acting as a focussing lens for all my activities, linking everything together and creating new links.
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Current projected aims and outcomes
We clarified the current Mapping the Territory project. I have been a bit reluctant to give this time as yet, because I have been a little unclear about the questions posed, but now feel I understand the purpose of the assignment, the linking of theory and practice to explore the relationships in my work within contemporary practice – to clarify that for myself, and to communicate that within MA criteria. Also clarification was added by think of this as something to refer to later, and reassess in a year and so. Again using the territory I am already mapping from previous VE projects – the museum, the V&A, the idea I have about this to start with a mirror piece of work and work backwards – I feel I have got a way in to this project now.
Form Frame Fracture – discussed the piece of moving image produced, and where this exploration may lead. I feel I am getting somewhere with this, and intend to use these elements for VE projects almost as a parallel practice. As much as making work, talked about how showing work can change the work and the place in where it is shown. I think this is where I am heading with these elements – future plans of making work with a museum, perhaps V&A – next year is a suitable project within the MA. This would be a great area for me to prepare and develop. Using the MA projects to develop practice.
Truth
Angela asked me a couple of very apasite questions about what I had written about in FFF and generally, about how I am using the fissure or fracture to reveal the truth, and yet my work is usually ambiguous at point of purchase. A suggested a non-western philosophy way of clarifying, and while I agree totally in this way of explaining paradox, I am looking to contemporary physics as a translation of such moveable ideas. I have always looked to paradox as the highest hallmark of truth. I really mean always – I remember thinking deeply about this as a child. But this statement of the truth, that is for me to clarify – what I really mean is perhaps the quest for the insight that is to be gleaned. I will definitely explore this further and come up with a clearer version.
Material
The other throwaway remark I had made was about having so much material. Yes, it does invite the question about what is all this material, how is it that I have so much material in my life, and more deeply, what if the metaphor of material to be drawn here.
Yes, I will ponder these points further. It’s great to have a reminder to break things down further and get to what I really mean. The truth, the metaphor, the insight.
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Discussion and recommendations
Video artist working with touch / film / memory Tereza Stehlíková
23rd May 2011
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