It's been a strange week. I've been very anxious for the other students a little too much this week, and this has had a bearing on my own concentration and output. Unfortunately, it's something I have to accept that sometime my empathy is a little too strong, I just automatically start worrying for others. It's a habit that locks me down so often, which caused me to ruminate and hence loose time and some creative enthusiasm. It's a schema that I would benefit from changing.
Anyway, to summarize where I am... The contemporary practice in context (i.e. the theory part) seems to be raising a lot of concern and fears in the group this week, as to what needs to be done, and what is right, and what is wrong. It has meant that there has developed a conversation and notion of rightness and wrongness, which when thought about deeply, doesn't actually exist. What has been set for us to do, is really quite open and whilst there is guidance, there are no hard boundaries that might hold us in. We are free to explore where-ever and whatever we want to. The only output (or products) at this stage is for each of us to create a mind-map of a philosopher / theorist, or a favoured artist's or even an art movement's Manifesto. Once this mind map has been created, we then should be able to create an image (in what-ever format we want, so it can be a drawing, painting, piece of sculpture, electronic representation or whatever), that captures some key identifying component(or components) of the chosen theorist or manifesto...
To repeat the phrase that I keep coming back to, which Shakespeare wrote in Hamlett act 2...
"Nothing is either right nor wrong, but thinking makes it so"...
(I shall keep coming back to this wonderful phrase again and again, I am sure of it...:-) )...
This notion of "nothing is right or wrong but thinking makes it so" is really part of the essence of post-modernism I suppose. Almost anything goes... This is reflected very much not just in our contemporary culture but also in our art too.
So, onto a more focused reflection my thinking...
Having decided to consider the artist Jean Tinguely, for my choice of theorist for study in Contemporary Art Practice in Context project, I've been gathering references to his material.
The choice of using Jean Tinguely as both a theorist, practitioner and artist (someone whom I had never come across before), has given me a greater challenge to gather research, simply because records of him and his work seem a little harder to obtain, if compared with a more generally known artist or celebrated movement... I see this as a positive thing. It has meant that I have to research in a much more focused way, but in so doing, has caused me to touch and review very many unconnected sources of inspiration and resources of study.
Tunguely, perhaps a lesser known artist within the UK but much more celebrated in Europe (especially in Switzerland, his birthplace), created the Manifesto "of Static" and from it grew the movement itself and corresponding manifesto; he has probably become most famous for the creation of the theme and idea of "Meta-matics".
This blog is based on the theoretical study and studio practice of a three year, UK based, Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in Contemporary Fine Art and Illustration.
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