The Research module consists of several elements. This post is a first attempt to orientate these towards resolution and assessment.
a. Research outline from A1
b. The dissertation, consisting of:
- main body of text
- different voices articulating alongside the main body of text, notably: research practice and notes sitting aside
- Appendices to the main body: key points to the research practice and clarifications over key works and positions
c. Research padlets
d. Other padlets transecting across BoW and Research
e. Art works originating within the research process
f. Research folder on blog
It is this latter, the research folder on the blog that I need to organise and orientate. I have the blog so far mainly used to provide a number of things
- assignments, reflections and tutorial notes
- critical reflections across BoW and Research
- practice pieces and enquiries, many of these are part of BoW, some are part of Research; these often have a performative nature, are often not contextualised nor annotated but instead use the blog as performance/presentation platform
- some reflections on works and processes that do not directly relate to the intersection between BoW and Research, some of these are for Research
I have not so far used the blog to provide contextual studies or reviews or reflections (like artists, works, exhibitions, etc.), I did this in the past but for these modules much less so, and little that is writing for such purpose for Research.
Research tutorial 4 made clear that the current organisation of excess, appendix or satellite objects does not provide enough space to explore key debates, artists, works nor indeed conceptual considerations for my own practice within the 5k word limit of the dissertation.
Here, the Research folder on the blog will take this role, and it will hold a series of reflective and contextual pieces along with more theoretical and conceptual discussions.
Currently there are four key posts to write:
- Theoretical significance of nomadism and transversalism (and possibly some new materialism also) which underpins the dissertation but is not covered in depth. (The dissertation will discuss in turn Marks and Springgay/Truman in more detail)
- Key writers and artists: Spahr, Kapil and Krauss are alluded too, so are Calle, Goudal and Matta Clark; these need more discussion (and possibly just a list of relevant context as appendix in the dissertation); there are also: Bethan Huw’s Lake Piece, Gillian Wearing’s Dancing in Peckham and Georgina Starr’s Eddy & Whistle whose works keep returning to my mind. (Jonas and Palmer will in turn feature in more detail in the dissertation).
- Different voices in the dissertation
- Managing excess in Research
I will then also reorganise the categories and tags to account for this new section.