First half given by Tom Abba in leiu of the Dean, Paul Gough, but with Gough's notes.
About Assignment 5:
Ambitions, 10 year plan, funding proposal, almost anything. I think I want to investigate the measure the communities' secretary Hazel Blears is hoping to put through in June: making funding available to use 'slack space'- empty shops etc- as art galleries, community centres and the like. My area of town, St. George, or more specifically, Redfield, has no art and is quite rundown is places. My intention is to treat this assignment as a practise for applying for this funding. I will discuss this with my tutors this coming Thursday in a tutorial. See Guardian article. Other ideas suggested to my by colleagues is putting on shows at the bookable spaces The Cube and the Hen & Chicken. Walked past the exhibition 'Weapon of Choice' the other day- must try to see this.
- Idea/questions/where is the work going? New questions, new challenges
- Unpick question - why - what - where - whom - how? Doability? Plain language --> unambiguous
- How - methods & methodology. Ways to assess success and maybe change. How will you work? describe work in art language
- What else is going on? Setting th critical context. How well do you understand the rest of the field, ie, is someone else doing it? Situate within peers
- Who else is doing this?
- How well informed are you? Regional/national discussion. Links, networks. Bibliography of work written. How well can you command on the subject?
- What will be the result? Outcomes and outputs?
- Assessment- is it worth doing?
Arts & Humanities Research Council website
Bibliographies can include film content, web journals. Referenced throughout text.
Dr. Holly McLaren
Cultural geographer, site-specific artwork. Invited artists to respond to the locality of the town of Oswestry on the England/Wales border; exhibition entitled 'Bordering'.
Production process as action research - network of associations - Vivian van Saaze - Ethnography of Installation Art. Connective threads between geography and art. Rearticulate geography in an explicitly artistic manner. Role of geographer/curator allowed flexibility of roles. Kept a research diary, conducted interviews, methodology.
Points- physical border landscape, emotional cartographies, transitory places, liminal spaces, ambiguous places, landscapes of identity.
Two grants- smaller first to investigate if worth it and then larger delivery grant.
Ruth Jones - Ianuae - horses' significance in Oswestry - performance piece with black & white horse.
Simon Whitehead & Stefhan Caddick - Walking Wall - created a mobile border/barrier. Initially in gallery then walked around
TEA - TEA in Oswestry - two videos, installation & postcards and bags. How to engage in place when only there briefly, marketed tourism.
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Tom's talk was very helpful and I think will prove invaluable. McLaren's lecture, whilst interesting to begin with, became less interesting I think more because of her delivery than anything else. That is a lesson learnt: don't read off pre-written notes and try to vary your tone of voice. Also I thought the artworks in her exhibition seemed somewhat weak and obvious (Whitehead & Caddick and TEA) or pretentiously obscure (Ruth Jones). Although I liked the initial idea I found my mind wandered towards the end.
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