I am inspired! I really enjoyed this week’s recording. The discussions were very insightful and definitely gave me a fresh perspective on new possibilities for approaching and presenting my work.
It is so true that in this MA journey, as much as it is sometimes a struggle and a challenge to push through the research or practical aspects: one thing leads to another… When I look back, I have certainly made progress and discovered so much about my medium and about myself. It is both a scary and exciting journey.
The following stood out after listening to the recording in particular:
I think is was Michele who mentioned the following quote during her introduction and I just loved it:
“The way we behave in the world is bound to what we imagine the world to be” by Talisman
She said that how we behave in the studio and beyond, how our theory and ways of making and methods and methodologies are contingents of our own value systems. Also that matters that concern us can become integrated in our making rather than a side issue. I totally agree and I think if we want to make work that is authentic, it must come from that vulnerable place within. We can care!
Michele also talked about how Joseph Bois (if I have the name correct?) insisted that knowledge is all about how we do our thinking about what we want to know. It makes me excited to think that my art making can serve as a way of ‘getting-to-know’ or gaining understanding about the things that matter to me.
THEN… the presentation that Lydia Halcrow gave had me glued to the screen and I loved everything that her work was about, what her methodologies were and how she presented her work with the beautiful narrative of the story of her grandmother woven in between. This was pure inspiration! Here are a few things about her talk that I took away:
- Working outside (vulnerability) and then inside.
- Chance – how it can become stories during her walks. Deep geographical stories.
- A book she mentioned – Jane Bennet 2010 called Vibrant matter (I will see if I can find this).
- Children and playfulness (I can relate!!)
- Timothy Morton talked about hyper objects (I still need to look at the a bit closer)
- A questioning approach asking – is this the most sensitive I can work within the natural environment?
- A Co-creator and unstatic (working with nature).
- She mentioned the work ‘Anarchive’ and it made me curious. I looked it up quickly and seems to be a way of storing and curating things/collections of things in such a way that people could view it, move it and experience it.
- How she summarized her practice: “What happens when we work with experimental embodied processes that a collaborative with place, around ideas of re-mapping a place.”
She truly was inspiring and made me think about my work in a different light. Thanks for sharing this with us. Many of the other talks were also great and extremely interesting and I watched the entire 5hrs 12mins!