This session focused on Fine-art Practice-led PhD research with reference to Donald Schon’s ‘Action research’ and examples from The Laboratory of Dissent, The Winchester Gallery, 2015. ‘Donald Alan Schon (1930-1997) trained as a philosopher, but it was his concern with the development of reflective practice and learning systems within organizations and communities for which he is […]
Notes for conversation: Visual Essay Nov. 2017
Notes written in preparation for ‘Creative meeting’ session (Nov. 2017). I chose John Bresland’s ‘On the Origin of the Video Essay’ (2010). https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v9n1/gallery/ve-bresland_j/ve-origin_print.shtml Blackbird an online journal of literature and the arts, Spring 2010 Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 1-3. All other quotes in this text are from this article unless otherwise specified. ‘A visual essay […]
Essay definitions
As CAS Associate Artists look forward to a Workshop session on “the Visual Essay” in November I turn my attention to the origins of the visual essay. Our research group mentor Dr Yonat Nitzan Green has shared with us a text by John Bresland on the subject. Below I have extracted a few definitions from […]
A.M: Notes on Collaborative Practice
Have you ever wondered why CAS is the way it is, who we are, or how we work? When David Dixon first invited artists to become CAS Associates in December 2013, he introduced them to the concept of Autopoietic Morphogenesis. Also known as A.M, it is an emerging methodology that has informed CAS artistic activity ever since. […]
Methodology
A text for Reading and Discussion by CAS Research Reading Group April 20th 2017 Extracts Compiled by Yonat Nitzan-Green 2.4.2017 (View as PDF) ‘Stage 8. First of all you need to consider which modes of transport – that is, methodology and methods – you will use. This depends on the terrain. It is important to consider […]
Material Order and Meaning: A Visit to the Ashmolean Museum
The archivist and custodian of a collection is the business of finding order, making sense making meaning, and knowing where things are. As part of a CAS R&D project, Associate Artists have been exploring questions about how art can be collected, organised an shared. How might CAS artists make their individual and collective works accessible to […]
Why I Write
I write for many reasons. So when I sit down to write after a CAS Research (and reading) Group meeting, it’s important to remember why I’m writing about theory and art. Some initial thoughts… I write for my pleasure. I write to make visible how my individual experiences of life inform my perspective and understanding […]
The Ongoing Archive
On 1st March, CAS Associate Artists met with Ronda Gowland, and Alex Misick from John Hansard Gallery to discuss “the archive”. The group wanted to discuss what comes up when exploring archival practices, and how archiving is relevant to their individual and collective practice. As a studio group CAS Associates are in the early stages […]
Knowledge and Material
What is the ‘fabric of knowledge’? I wondered. This thought arrived… Fabric is woven from truth but the fabric is not THE truth. It could have been woven in a different pattern and selection. To know the truth, we must know the choices we are making when responding to raw material. Take for example the material of […]
