http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/research-process-and-practice-final-year-10-2-14-30842878
Reflective practice
Build reference point
Inform / support practice
Not work in vacuum
Ask a lot of questions
Exchange / people / values - choose carefully
Context
Why make work
Work / entertainment / understanding / money?
What is the work for - world
Questions - of work and of self
A practice is a hierarchy of ideas
Eg book, sequence - concentric circle of ideas
Where is work to go - galleries - where in public
Sense of intervention / politics?
Who are the audience?
Like-minded people?
Or changing / political / social tool?
Gallery?
Kind of work - conversations
Build connections
Art history / science / music / writing, etc
Doesn't have to be informed by other art
Impose other practices into art practice
Space informing making
Writers / novels, etc
Mapping ideas / diagram
Overlapping, Venn diagram
Some does / does not inform practice
Map out influences
Actually different shapes - particular influences, different sizes
Contextual framework - own practice
Different factors intervene
People that relate to my work - what do they bring - context
Political. Advocacy / activist or subject matter
Actively using work?
personal - about you?
Drives - own audience - motives / skills
Critical / theoretical - explore particular idea - body of knowledge
Writer, philosopher, artist
Context or else vacuum
historical - related to history
what is our time?
Technical
Geographical
Where is work?
USP - what makes it you
Live local, work international
Place informs making - institutional
MA / family / backgrounds
Cultural, other categories
Mapping practice - other contexts
Wobbly map
Sometimes more or less current
Can identify what doing and perhaps gaps to do
If you don't know where you're going, how can you know when you get there.
Surround a problem in order to solve it
Reflect inwards into practice
Any road will get you there
Not answers but exploring the question
Martin Creed - Half the Space
Audience make space - slight participation
Look at from all those contexts
About the body?
Analyse and deconstruct each from various criteria / context
Highly aware
Artist Breath- Manzoni
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/manzoni-artists-breath-t07589
Louise Bourgeois - Insomnia Drawings
http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/louise-bourgeois
What links - by simple shape? Graphic? Sense of activity?
Or circuitous rout between A and B
View work - Social, Political, Geographical, Critical, Theoretical, Cultural, Economic, Personal, Historical
Conversation Eleanor, Jennifer, Sarah
Geographical
E -major city.access to exhibitions, libraries. making work in own space.
J - micro / macro, studio / space issues, shifting / storage, send work or self
S - important to practice, always rural - beginning to feature, setting up new structures,
Connections, relationships, mobile, opportunities to share work
Political
E - oblique, apolitical, related, indirect
J - not overtly political, interaction and consumption
S - Partly political / funding, opportunities, subliminal
If a different view, political agenda
Engaging with audience - show
Loss of quality - viral image online
Fit structure work in
Invite certain people - salon experience, particular audience
Interested in engaging with audience?
Gallery - exhibition audience
How exchange ideas - conduit
E - work is only completed when it is exhibited. It is finished when I have thought through the installation
Positive / negative responses - inhibit / reward
Not about judging work, but about response
Political - work more open ended, not told what to think
Medium for activism
Role
Other gaps?
Submission fees - economics, policies
Fees - small business, loss leaders, overheads
Position in market
Business concepts - art
Brand / money
Building project rather that open submissions - using skills
Having a plan - knowing why
Money and not money projects
Place where work makes most sense to most people
Geography - emotional / psycho geography
Physical space
Work compromised by space
Strengths and weaknesses in practice
Creative solutions
Not ideal work space - make it positive
Traditional studio? New ways - laptop, etc
A Room of One's Own, Virginia wolf - still relevant
Geography / physical space / economic
Generate £ for space?
Work for £ for space
Economics of space
Understand own need for space
Theoretical / critical thinking
How actually informed making work
Reading -
How important that audience knows those ideas?
Giving my ideas a language
titles - duality
Multi-layered meanings Damien Hirst
Cornelia Parker - role of title / duality
One illuminating the other
From writing / research / critical thinking
Role of audience in understanding
Many layers of interpretations, readings
Provide entry points
Opens up responses to work
This MA - meta thinking - Institution - how informed?
Metacognition is defined as "cognition about cognition", or "knowing about knowing". It comes from the root word "meta", meaning beyond.It can take many forms; it includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving. There are generally two components of metacognition: knowledge about cognition, and regulation of cognition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition
Blog, exposure, challenge of openness
Durational relationship - 4 years
Relationship with institutions
Reflection
Yet again a thorough and generous talk form Les Bicknell, and a great resource of notes.
Seems like a fruitful and essential exercise to do this, and repeat occasionally:
- Comment on and deconstruct my practice through those various criteria
- Describe my practice, my ideas, through these viewpoints
Political
Geographical
Critical
Theoretical
Cultural
Economic
Personal
Historical
- Systems to find audiences, think through and put in place
- Define, map practice - blind spots
- Interconnectivity of all those elements
16th April 2014
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