Category: Lectures

Foreground: Deb Covell, “Nowt to Summat”, 2014; background: Simon Callery, “Wiltshire Modulator”, 2010 Natasha Kidd – Overfill (2015) Alaena Turner – Secret Action Painting 7 (2015) Krauss: Sculpture began with meaningful commemoration, plinth separation in the site/space from the representation situated on the plinth Modernism is when this meaningful commemoration representation broke down with the… Continue reading Painting in the Not So Expanded Field – Some Thoughts about the Limitations of the Bounded Surface Lecture – 09.05.16

Cary Young, Cautionary Statement (2007) – picture description Very early statement describing practise Write a statement that creates a discussion around your work, how it should be read, a general framework surrounding the work and determine the type of reader you want Moodle Template (see image) Google: How to Write an Artist Statement (don’t use… Continue reading Artist Statement Workshop

Ghost in the Shell (1995) Ghost in the Shell is a Japanese media franchise originally published as a seine (‘youth’) manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. There have been several different anime adaptations of Ghost in the Shell, starting with the 1995 film of the same name, telling the story of Section 9’s investigation of the Puppet Master. Up-loadable consciousness Autonomy… Continue reading Posthumanism – 25.04.16

example artists statement Show Spaces: spaces being used for the End of Year Exhibition Again we can work in groups on a single piece or multiple pieces curated by the group as a whole We will also need proposals for the space we wish to work in as well as research relating to any work in the show (in whatever format… Continue reading Lecture| Year Group Meeting – 18.04.16

Susan Hiller – Resounding (Infa-red)   Francis Alys When Faith Moves Mountains Description: Linear Geological Displacement & real-life Miracle – moving of mountain 4-inches Fabiola Faith as a investment in concrete utopian possibility Heightened awareness of religion shaping politics in present day society Conflicting sources of religious belief – e.g. Christianity vs. Islam Renee Stout… Continue reading Religion & Religiosity| New Maps of Heaven – 29.02.16

Photography and the Lifeworld ***Lifeworld – Our intuitive way of being in the world and our experience of the world A world beyond perception Photography’s link to ‘experience’ What is Post-Photography? Photography as non-representational, non-indexical and non-realistic. Photography as ‘metaphysical’ Anti-humanist experience of Photography Flusser’s Ladder of Abstraction – Into the Universe of Technical Images… Continue reading Picture & Code: Photography and the Lifeworld – 21.02.15

The Return of the Abject – Julia Kristeva’s ‘Powers of the Horror‘/”Pouvoirs de l’horreur (1982) The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, and draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the “I/Not I” dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and other concepts appropriate to feminist criticism and queer theory. According to Kristeva, the abject marks a… Continue reading Abjection – 08.02.16

 Gauguin, Les Alyscamps, (1888), Musée d’Orsay, Paris How art education intersects with ideas, concepts and problems for artistic production Pedagogy – “to lead a child” – So now it generally means the study of being a teacher or teaching Paul Gaugin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death.… Continue reading Art School: Pedagogy ‘Of’ and ‘For’ Art- 01.02.16

  Is globalisation homogeneous? McDonaldization vs Hetrogenenization McDonaldization is a term used by sociologist George Ritzer in his book The McDonaldization of Society (1993). He explains that it becomes manifested when a culture adopts the characteristics of the dominant culture In contemporary society, the concept of McDonaldization is gaining attention in different aspects such as culture. McDonaldization thesis in cultural version is a… Continue reading Local/Global- 25.01.16

Christopher Wool; Untitled (2001) Silkscreen ink on linen (measuring approx 228.6 x 152.4 cm) What happens when text and image overlap? The event of the process Grasping a reality – the things seen and be recognisable, he moment of an experience and this ‘detachable’, but yet, relatable to the experience Naming/categorising language The dimension of death… Continue reading Neither Text Nor Image – 18.01.16

Notations, 2012 in-studio set up Incidence 2009 PHYSICS the intersection of a line, or something moving in a straight line, such as a beam of light, with a surface. Anne Hardy’s photographs depict fictional spaces which have both a magical and naturalistic quality.Constructed within the studio using a range of materials, from disintegrating found objects to… Continue reading Artist Lecture: Anne Hardy – 08.12.15

Usually, not always site specific Activating spaces Working alongside institutions (intertwined into questioning within the art piece) Miwon Kwon – One Place After Another (2004) Framework: Site as an actual and physical location (Phenomenological) Site as a cultural framework define by institutional of art Site as a mobile , discursive narrative Beatrice Con Bismarck Game:… Continue reading Institutional Critique – 23.11.15

 Die Baba [The Baby], 1985; Oil on canvas Bathed in sickly blue-yellow light, Marlene Dumas’s baby is almost repellent. Instead of an instant love affair, Dumas paints an alien encounter, the unnerving presence of an ‘other’, the realisation of an individual with a will and determination of his own. Marlene Dumas confronts the reality of motherhood, with… Continue reading Correspondances – 16.11.15

Benjamin, W – A Small History of the Photograph – “the mere reflection of reality tells us nothing about reality” Bertol Brecht – illusion in theatre, show its artificiality in order to reflect on reality [Science Fiction] – “Defamiliarises the past in order to reaffirm the present”                    … Continue reading Science Fiction – 09.11.15

Emily Speed The relationship between the human body and architecture Gordon Marta Clarke – Splitting (1974) Architecture as monolithic Active destruction of buildings Architectures as both boundary and a structure What is a boundary? No boundaries in nature that isn’t porous on some nature How this this related to human nature? Permeated from every direction –… Continue reading Body/Building – 02.11.15

The Death of Doctor David Kelly, 2008 Keyword – what does ‘critical’ mean? Work as revelatory – revealing as a critical value Everyone (artist, audiences, society etc.) is ‘colluding’ on where art lies, its critical value Dexter Dalwood Heavily politicised work, engaging with the socio-political work asking questions about what the status of painting is/and… Continue reading Art’s Critical Function – 26.10.15

The relationship between ‘things’ and ‘meaning’ Prehensile (capable of grasping) vision Contemplation and tactile (of or relating to sense or touch) contemplation The difference between (active) ‘involvement’ and (passive) ‘observation’ Does physical shape have precedence over contextual meaning – which comes first? Does ‘shape of behaviour’ affect meaning? THE MEANING OF A WORD IS ITS USE!… Continue reading The Shape of Behaviour – 19.10.15

Essay across 2 units 2pm Monday Lecture weekly Unit 7: 2000 word essay (25th Jan 2016) Essay 2: 3000 words (slightly longer than initial essay) More specificity in essays Dissertation beginning in the summer term Unit 7: ***Due Jan 25th 2016 Ability to articulate theoretical context with confidence and vigour More general line of enquiry… Continue reading Unit Briefing – 12.10.15