Sophie Hope

28 October 2008

Proposed questions – what are you current interests? What is/was your mothers job/profession?

Current PhD interests – define her curator practice – social science, research, and art practice. Investigating the areas that go wrong, finding an interest in the moments of crisis.

Where does curating fit in everyday life – course tutor

How to visualise curatorial practice, can the open source methodology be applied? – mine

Tutorial – Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan

Described the collaboration ideas – its development timeline

Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan

23 October 2008

Interested in objects presented as events – the object is the event Axis
Production; manufacture; sculpture; relations; character; experience; status of objects
Engaging in continuous conversations as curator to artist and artist to curator

Workshop – Tim Collins & Reiko Goto

Research is about discourse and building a community around you – creating a process, collective process. But what is a good team? Go beyond the single author and expand the sense of potential. Social elements – the right art group. Are Ganghut the right art group? Is it the networking that is the artwork/practice?

Emancipation & Art

What kind of artwork could articulate an emancipatory experience?

Emancipation art exhibit

is this it?

Quercus Emancipation

can we see here the room trying to free itself – it wants the outside. The work wants emancipation. ????

Presentation – Tim Collins & Reiko Goto

What are they about? [Go beyond assumption]

Sound work – heard an audio piece
Environmental History
Earth art – formal impressions on the land, out of the gallery
Ecological art – Haarke, Beuys,
Social & Ecological – people
Ikeda, Littoral, Platform
Complex urban systems – shift these places & values

Eden 3 – Tim Collins & Reiko Goto

Preparation

What kind of art is ecological and environmental art? Who are the artists? What have they done? What was the intention of the (reiko’s) work that you found interesting?
http://www.greenmuseum.org/
http://www.greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention
http://3r2n.cfa.cmu.edu

Aberdeen Train Station

Aberdeen Train Station – image

Considered:

The importance of the station to a visitor – when visiting another country arrival at the station; it becomes your grounding, central – a way home, a way in, a way out

The journey – exotic places, romantic, living in a carriage

The none place

Text describing a station, travel, a journey

The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton, Chapter II On Travelling Places 1

The Harry Potter Lexicon – Platform 9 3/4

Consider place 09/10/2008

Generic, local, personal
Research place – know about the place

Context of Place

AA SM1 Research Methods and Critical Studies Part 1

Aberdeen Beach Patterned Ground – with comments

This seminar /”location” discussion will focus on exploring how and why we as practitioners need to experience and understand the physical/observational context of specific places to inform, innovate and develop your work.