Studio set up and Workshop re topic & research; starting point

 

Really happy with this years studio space - Prepping some canvas because I still want to mask edges and paint on canvas. Trying to work in this and my home studio to maximise output between work. 

My initial research question was going to be:

How can I apply contemporary art methods, to explore rhizomic and deeply intertwined lines of enquiry into the eco feminist discourse, the female experience and themes of identity; and how do I destabilise ways of disseminating and consuming art?

Moved away from this as I tightened the scope of my research.

Workshop:

What is my broad topic?

Intersectional Feninism & the female in relation to nature, anchored by an exploration into the concept of the witch.(Witchness) 

*You don't own the notion of family. Ethnography is a mix of autobiographical - reflecting on personal engagement and using that visual to explore for others. (Speaking for and speaking for themselves)

How can I make it more specific?

• Female social behaviours: Deviant v defiant. Non conformist v complicit 
• Social devience and its manifestation. Alienation of deviants. (You're not defiant if you are an understood and accepted, privilaged demographic - so are deviants misunderstood, unaccepted underprivaledged.. (Speaking for and speaking for themselves)
• Research into the Veiled Venus by Kuhne Beveridge. 
• Potential transcription of the sculpture into 2d visual works.

What preliminary research do you think you will need to undertake to learn about the currency of issues (contextual and theoretical)?

• Build on research into the witch- and links to contemporary society
• Have conversations with people who relate
• Have conversations with artists making work in this territory

What practice based research do you think you need to do and how will it help you to move forward?

FINER

Feasible

This feels accessible, I have territories to explore that link to the Veiled Venus to the research I've been doing over the last few years, and I have ideas for making.

Interesting

Curious to find out more about the artist Kuhne Beveridge and her work, and the work of academics who have written papers. I'm also keen to explore the concept of the veiled venus in relation to my broad topic/ specifics

Novel

Ethical

Relevant