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2nd March 2020 by Maija Leave a Comment

Lines of thought

Maija Liepins, for CAS Research Group; Drawing languages for Dissent Ready for our first meeting, the CAS Research and Drawing Group have been reading Tim Ingold’s Introduction to ‘Lines; A Brief History’. We have been drawn into a contemplation of lines, dots, traces and surfaces. Ingold says ‘non-linear’ in non-western or other-than-colonial thinking assumes that […]

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11th December 2018 by Maija Leave a Comment

‘Should I work for free?’ on building relationships that feel good

Maija Liepins on building relationships and responding to opportunities that feel good. I’ve been thinking about the value of the Bureau of Exchange. It was a popup shop Lydia Heath and I created for CAS which offered 4 artists a week each to host a space of non-monetary exchange. It became a place where people […]

Filed Under: Blog, Maija's Notebook, The Bureau of Exchange Tagged With: generosity, relationshipbuilding, thebureauofexchange, value

27th October 2017 by Maija Leave a Comment

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 […]

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13th July 2017 by Maija Leave a Comment

2.a.m Process & Experience (VIDEO)

CAS Associate Artists (Group 1) talk about their process and experience of participating in 2.a.m a collaborative creative day.

Filed Under: CAS Studio Lab, Maija's Notebook Tagged With: AM methodology, CAS discussions, play methodology

5th May 2017 by Maija Leave a Comment

Layers of Time and Peripheral Colours

On Thursday 4th CAS artists revisited images of The Laboratory of Dissent exhibition (2015) which ran for 5 weeks at the Winchester Gallery. Each artist selected an image, and passed it on to another artist for response. Artist Dawn Evans invited us to explore “porous thinking” and move away from the central image, to create […]

Filed Under: CAS Studio Lab, Maija's Notebook, The Laboratory Of Dissent Tagged With: diffractive methodology

25th April 2017 by Maija Leave a Comment

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. […]

Filed Under: CAS Research Group, Maija's Notebook Tagged With: CAS development, collaboration, Lab Notes, methodology, play methodology, R&D 2017, reflecting on practice

10th April 2017 by Press Officer Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: CAS Research Group, Dawn's Notebook, Maija's Notebook Tagged With: archive, Associate Activity, Chapers

18th February 2017 by Maija Leave a Comment

Stitching Poetry

Work in progress. ‘Wildness Call Forth The Night’ 18th February Today I stitched page two. It felt different. The needle pierced the paper as if it were my skin. Paper thin skin. For paper, it’s actually quite thick and the eruption of paper on the underside quite violent as the needle breaks the surface. As […]

Filed Under: Blog, Maija's Notebook Tagged With: poetry, Thread, WorkInProgress

30th January 2017 by Maija Leave a Comment

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 […]

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15th August 2016 by Maija Leave a Comment

86 (everyday) Faces

I’ve been told I’m photogenic but I always plaster on a smile just in case. If you look at me, I will smile. If I don’t feel like smiling, often I won’t go out. It’s not so much that the smile is a lie but that it is what I draw up from myself to […]

Filed Under: Maija's Notebook Tagged With: Identity, the body as medium

8th July 2016 by Maija Leave a Comment

The language of the body

On Friday 7 July at our monthly CAS gathering, Kimvi relayed her experiences and explorations of ‘Performance As Medium: You Are Enough’. Artists present were invited to respond blind (from their own starting point). With me, I brought clay rich mud and memories of earthy landscapes. I am learning the language of the body. The body of me and […]

Filed Under: CAS Studio Lab, Maija's Notebook Tagged With: New Materialism, performance art, phenomena, play methodology, the body as medium

10th June 2016 by Maija Leave a Comment

The Broken Poetz make me re-think hip hop with every new release

The Broken Poetz are refreshingly unapologetic when it comes to sharing the thoughts in their heads, drawing inspiration from their own lives, and telling it how they see it. Their music is honest, frank, thoughtful and heartfelt, but ballsy too. This is more true than ever with the release of their fourth album ‘Soul Searching’. […]

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8th June 2016 by Maija Leave a Comment

“Illustrate Your Wierdness”

Expansion (after contraction) Responding to an invitation by artist Dawn Evans Two great danes in a large house miniaturise us. In altogether more familiar proportions we gather in the garden and are invited to select a prompt from a box. ‘Design a throne‘ says mine. A throne is for sitting on. I find an apple tree […]

Filed Under: CAS Studio Lab, Maija's Notebook Tagged With: play methodology, The Material Imagination

7th May 2016 by Maija 1 Comment

Resonance and Entanglement

The space defined by the rattle of a spinning rock vibrating. Clattering noise: a pleasing sound, but the resonance belongs to the inside of the bowl, the surface of the olive wood reverberating with impact and concentrating the alchemy between parts.   There’s not quite words to describe accurately the sounds: A stone sliding momentously along the floor. […]

Filed Under: CAS Studio Lab, Maija's Notebook Tagged With: co-creativity, diffractive methodology, intra-action, phenomena, play methodology, resonance

6th May 2016 by Maija Leave a Comment

Material and Imagined Phenomena

Instead of there being a separation of subject and object, there is an entanglement of subject and object, which is called the “phenomenon.” – Karen Barad This investigation began when Yonat (CAS artist) was inspired by an interview with Karen Barad about ‘The Material Imagination’. It re-orders the traditional view of time, space, and matter. When she shared it with […]

Filed Under: CAS Studio Lab, Maija's Notebook Tagged With: diffractive methodology, intra-action, New Materialism, phenomena, The Material Imagination

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