INDEPENDENT STUDY
1. TASKS
- Bring the latest version of your Unit 5 submission to review in class.
2. READ + WATCH + LISTEN
- It will be updated shortly.
LIVE SESSION
30 November 2024
Let’s reflect on some of the questions we’ve posed ourselves early in Unit 5 and how these are reflected with and through our practices.
- What has marked my personal experience of MAIP and how does this compare and contrast with my cohorts’ experiences? What do I want to remember and why? What would I like to forget and why?
What i want to remember= Embracing our culture individually and sharing it with each other
What would i want to forget= I dont want to forget even the experiences that werent pleasant to me. Everything is a lesson, if u forget it then its time wasted;
- What specific lessons have I learned from particular classmates? How can I reference/value these in my chronology? In what ways are they interconnected and how can I evidence this?
I have learned about their culture and I have learned from observing how differently we counter and react to the same challenges.
- How do I want to evolve my practice? What tasks, challenges, experiments, etc. will I set myself to promote and organise this process? What role does action research play in this? (We’ll discuss action research in Week 37.
I want to continue to improve on creating paintings and understand my self better and deeper. In order to do so I will invest more time in painting and self reflection (given that i will have more free time at some point after graduation).
What is action research?
- What does failure mean to me? What conditions are required for me to ‘fail fast’ and ‘fail forward’? How can I guide uncertainty and use it tactically to advance or disrupt processes?
Failure to me is only when i dont try to improve/ progress my self and my art.
- What methods, techniques, approaches, etc. have I chosen to consolidate my work for and experience of MAIP, and why are these most appropriate? In what ways are they interactive? Why are certain forms more effective for communicating certain stories? What precedents or exemplars will I draw on and why?
Communication and patience? i am not sure i understand the question.
- How do the ways I reflect on and evaluate my practice evidence the value system that organises my life?
I am not sure.
Decision-making and tough love activity: Each of you will take 10 mins to comment on how your chronologies are addressing the questions below. Share your screen and share a snapshot of your chronologies to communicate this.
1: What binds together my community of interest (i.e., the community beyond MAIP I am exploring)? What are its distinguishing qualities, values, ways of life – in a word, ‘culture’?
What binds us together is not only the course, but also our love for our own complex culture and our interest for interculturality in artist spaces.
2: What does belonging to this community entail? What is the price of this association? How does my submission embody or reflect the community’s collective memory?
Belonging to this community entails communication, understanding and open mindedness as to where someone is coming from and their specific context.
My submission reflects the community’s collective memory because i am showing the individual context of each MAIPer and our common memories and intereactions.
3: As you engage in primary and secondary research, ask yourself: How did this community form? What are the qualities of its social organisation and governance? What cultural expressions and artefacts does it favour? What of its past, present and future? Its history, dreams, ethos, environment, conundrums, traumas and so on?
This community formed from us collaborating on projects and phasing the same challenges, answering the same questions in our own particular way through our interculturality.
The cultural expressions favoured were usually expressed through conversation and sharing our ideas experiences and methodology! and i think they were all individual to the person and their context.
4: What methods, techniques, approaches, etc. have I chosen to chronicle my community of interest and why are these appropriate? In what ways are they interactive? Why are certain forms more effective for communicating certain stories? What precedents or exemplars will I draw upon and why?
I have chosen to utilise my skills with drawing as its my most expressive and genuine form of communicating my emotions and context with complexity and emotion. I believe the idea of an illustrated tapestry is apropriate as it is a reflection of how we are bound through the net, as a tapestry is bound through thread!!
The project will feel intereactive as all tapestries are, its up to the viewer to focus on a story and unpack all elements. , zooming in and out and clicking on information as they please. i BELIEVE A TAPESTRY IS EFFECTIVE WITH COMMUNICATING NOT ONLY INFORMATION BUT THE FEELING OF THE EXPERIENCE. just like we said in unit 1-
there is a balance between information and emotion. experience and observation.
The precedent and example I am drawing from is a group project we created at the athens summer school were we created an actual physical tapestry and attached peoples thoughts on it, in this way we represented all people involved in the exhibition and slowly built the project with them, collaborative and interactive.
5: How will I critically contextualise my chronicles? What is their relevance – to me and my intercultural practice, to those involved, to the world more generally?
!!!!NOTES!!!!
Meli – my previous comments still stand.
It all sounds amazing.
But we don’t have a draft.
Fatma’s question was really hard. I thought that, too.
But v good to ask!
Collaborating and sharing the experience.
Maybe something to say, Meli, is to keep the intercultural front and centre.
These are general observations – good.
But where are the details?
The examples?
But you need to make it explicit. Please be specific.
It goes back to what Fatma was saying about presenting it to people who aren’t in the group.
Truth? It should run all the way through – interculturality.
When is this course not intercultural?
It’s instead about making it explicit.
So making tacit knowledge – what you take for granted – explicit.
WHAT MAKES OUR EXCHANGES AND OUR INTEREACTIONS INTERCULTURAL!
