Enquiry: Testing your Boundaries begins - LB
Les Bicknell - Testing your boundaries is intense
The work - where will it go, who would i want to see it
might start making new work that fits a different context - exhibiting work in a different context - out of the gallery - my thoughts - a publication or video or online
Reflective journal - document as it will probably fail but it will document the emails, site, installation etc to support thinking
group work - they are there for support - meeting to share, discuss, and respond, giving feedback - we are our own team - not exhibiting with them but supporting each other
The task is December to March - minimum of twice in contact with the group -
Group 1 - TB, RT, JO, RF, JV
Group 2 - PN, KVW, MC, MZ, EC
Support - tutorials, seminars
Submit - the work,
reflective writing - 750-1250 words focussed on the information and research around - the site is chosen, its situation, the audience, the decision-making process, the public engagement, a reflection on benefits and disadvantages for your practice - bibliography and Harvard referencing - evaluation of the task
10-12-2018 - intro
7-1-2019 - context
14-01-2019 self organised meeting
21-01-2019 - deadline to send images and text for tutorials to LB
4-02-2018 - tutorial with LB
11-02-2018 - self organised meeting
11-3-2018 - the journal - present the work
25 - 03- 2019 - student presentations
Testing boundaries -
connections - who do you know?
1 - you - who do you have access to? - friends, family, extended network, what networks are you connected to ? what do they do? Where do they work/play? - curators, project spaces - odd places - opticians, libraries, place you walk past -
2 - the work - what is your work about? what s it connected to? where do you see work like yours?
your making - your context -
social context - making and seeing work always takes place in some form of social context - the time and the place the work is made
audience for work - who is included/excluded/implicated on the way an 'image is produced, circulated, and consumed. - online, books, zines, publications
the role of the audience? do they need to do something? are they making their own work? do they move your work, do they become your team? do they reorganise?
political context - gender- race - ethnicity - sexual orientation - class - disability - religion
specific political issues - space where issues are engaged with
broad political issues
Personal context - biography- the narrative of the self - particular issues, what motivates you? your skills as an artist - who cares? - what strategies do you use when the work is not going well? How do you relate to the forces that in part condition, what you know and in which you make? - do you have the expression to give someone a voice? become a conduit?
Critical/theoretical context - does your work relate to particular critical debates about contemporary art and design practices?
particular critical debates
is your work informed by /engaged with/ contesting particular theoretical frameworks?
Historical context - understand how/whether your practice relates to a tradition, with a history - find a l=place that you are extending the lineage - become part of a tradition -
work that os specific to a particular time
how knowledge relates to periods in time.
Geographical context - local, regional, national, international, global.
is the place where you make the work important to the work?
do you make your work in relation to a particular place?
studio, home, church, city, rural, the space online, abstracted space.
Institutional context - OCA - MA Course - the course is informing the choices we make -
your educational background and how that informs
professional background/experience
your family background /experience
What is the role of the institution?
Cultural context - a whole way of life - this relates to all categories - who are we?
more specifically, why where when etc
what activities do you engage with?
Mapping your practice - ant other contexts worth mapping? Importance, Overlapping, Change - evolution of practice - which contexts are under the terms listed
Break out room - talk about the slide - who do you know? who do you have access to ? what networks do you have access to?
who do you have access to?
friends, family, extended network….
what networks are you connected to?
what do they do?
where do they work/play?
MZ - PN - KVW -
PN - english organisations, local art co-op,
Mz - elevator art - already done
KVW - events company - events organisers - chef - small business owner - cafe owners - engineers on site - airport - art world people: curators, admin, other artists, gallery owners - radio/voice workers -
Testing boundaries -
use of existing systems v new systems
presentation - shop windows - waiting rooms, religious spaces, educational spaces, foyers of public spaces - captive audience in an existing group - pieces that will transform lives for a couple of weeks
shop fronts - empty shops - or existing shops - what is sold in the shop?
library - if the work is about text or narrative -
sport - interaction - play - children - factories - industry - artist placement group - gardens - outdoors - public or private - open houses - open studios -
change format of your work
translation...... scale, materials, projection, publishing, magazine, newspaper artists book, website..... billboard? antipollution - cleaning dirty things with images, grass - projection - projection mapping - Dubai lynx - lecturers
start - research - reflect - what do you offer/want - who = make contact -name - consider - appropriateness - of opportunity - trust yourself
Break -
initial ideas - small groups - pre-mortum
initial ideas - publication - airport exhibition - cafe exhibition -
flyering of publication - takeaway artworks - in the cafes - colouring for children - placemats - beermats (Les) - restaurant colouring in - changing the audience to children or making artworks for adults to colour in - have a message and challenge the concept - PREMORTUM - the group work - the fracturing of the dynamic - solo work keeps me accountable without the reliance of others - finance - demand - design --feedback from Les - text not an issue - adult colouring book - self-publishing
EC - stickers - back projection in a space - anonymously - post-mortum - littering fine - is there feedback - is it clear in the message - not finding the right space, working in the proportions, visibility, work not ready to be shown. Guerilla projection? derelict space - anti-social spaces - forcing a conclusion
RF - capture the process of others and their journey of exhibiting the work - marginalisation of others - documenting the process of other artists - limited footfall, pushback from family -
when do you know you've been successful?
try to learn something - maintain perspective - avoiding 'changing your life' issues and concepts - in a month - start working out who you know and what opportunities you can open.