Durational fixity

Good to read of Holly's experience, as a participant in A CUT ... and as a recent graduate who has first-hand experience of a very different type, form and approach to the presentation of art and the art of exhibition-making: the Venice Biennale. I asked how her immersion in these two projects has impacted on her thoughts on the role and place of the artist, and curation? And what about the manipulation of time as medium – the ‘durational’ within performance versus the ‘fixity’ of the exhibition?

MFA students who participated in A CUT … and An Action …, you have subsequently proposed staging a collaborative exhibition as part of the MFA PGCert assessment – what thoughts on the questions here?

http://coopergallerynotes.blogspot.com/

invitation to participate

Edwin and I would value your participation in the events planned for 'The Museum of Loss and Renewal: Object becomes Subject' at Centrespace (in DJCAD's Visual Research Centre) on 22nd and 25th November.

In conversation with us on Tues 22nd November will be Paul O'Neill and Arnd Schneider, talking about our project through their expertise in durational approaches to curation, and art & anthropology.
And on Friday 25th November we'll be in conversation with Dr David Reilly of Glasgow's Homeopathic Hospital, discussing the relationship between art and wellbeing.

We'll be based in Centrespace between 14-27th November, developing the artwork from the first stage of the project 'The Museum of Loss and Renewal: Loss become Object' (HICA, Loch Ruthven till 30 Oct), making new work, working with groups of students and staff and hosting the public events on 22nd and 25th November.

http://www.mackenna-and-janssen.net/mackenna-and-janssen/The_Museum_of_Loss_and_Renewal.html

'Practice Research'

Practice Research is the term used by today's guest speaker Stefanos Pavlakis to frame the work undertaken during his PhD study. The presentation covered many areas and included History Remix “… an audio walk, an audio play about migrant labor and its impact on the City of Munich; it is an audio play that brings together memories, photographic material, anecdotes and literature on the so called Guest Worker”.

Stefanos gave his definition of research as -
a word with shifting meanings / a secondary activity: working through something (already existing) / creating - researching - collecting - producing
and highlighted Foucault's "an attempt to trace and make visible discontinuities"

Follow this link to download History Remix audio walk
www.historyremix.de

thank you MFA!

Thanks for inviting me to be part of your initiative!

These first 6 weeks working with you have been an absolute pleasure. Watching you take up challenges and opportunities like the DJCAD/Wellcome Trust 'Shared Imagination' symposium, AHM's 'State of Play', Exhibitions' 'A CUT, A SCRATCH, A SCORE' and see you make them your own is energising and inspiring.

Looking forward to much more to come, and many new shared experiences.

My thoughts on a cut...

throughout the week i was challenged, it was a lot to take in, working with the writers in particular was quite rewarding. The performance although not wanting to achieve a certain outcome, i felt like it did even though i had missed pervious performances in the week. by showing the the footage of the pervious performances and how the view it, to the bow at the end, i dnt know what other people think?

My Turn

Just watched an X-Factor performance and realised I didn't completely hate it. There is also element relevent to my work as part of the show is transparent, though I imagine choreographed.

I wonder a much of the backstage stuff is true...

Which circles back to a question of documentation and accurate it can be considering the bias that can be placed in it.

So I pose the question, how would everyone like their own work documented?

Fear

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful