practice-led

Art and Research

Lindsay — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:24:14 +0000

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Art and Research is an online journal for ideas, contexts and methods. It provides a resource of downloadable finished papers, interviews and conference notes that are considered important and current to the discourse that surrounds artistic research. The journal is international and peer-reviewed with an editorial board, one of the main editors being Ross Birrell an artist researcher and staff member at Glasgow School of Art. As well as being an interesting artist, Ross is also an interesting writer and his editorial paper Jacques Ranciere and The (Re) Distribution of the Sensible provides ‘Five Lessons in Artistic Research’ that condenses and links ideas such Rancier’s notion of the ‘distribution of territories’, a commentary on the value of certain disciplines over others, to Mika Hannula (and others) notion of the ‘democracy of experience’ which is ‘the precondition of a non-hierarchical research environment’.

Who is Afraid of Artistic Research? (3)

Lindsay — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:38:00 +0000

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video documentation of first tnl conference

hadzi — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:34:34 +0000

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please follow this link for the video documentation of the first next layer conference, april 08

http://www.archive.org/details/the-next-layer-april-08

Taxi-to-Praxi: Notes by Maria X

mariax — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:17:53 +0000

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Notes from the last hour of the afternoon session.

Praxi-to-taxi: An Improvisation

Armin Medosch — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:33:28 +0000

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The experimental workshop day taxi-to-praxi at Goldsmiths started off with a positive vibe as about 35 people met in the seminar room underneath the 'squiggle' whereby this group consisted of about one third of people from Goldmiths, one third from other universities and one third of unaligned individuals working as artists or curators. After Prof Janis Jeffries, convenor of the PhD in Arts and Computation opened the session, a lively and stimulating day unfolded. In this account I try to piece together from notes and memories what were some of the main issues which emerged.

Danger: Lest Taxi to Praxi be Forgotten

Lindsay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:15:43 +0000

From Grounded Theory to Saucy Tales

Lindsay — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:54:27 +0000

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Solid Knowledge

jaromil — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:43:22 +0000

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Solid Knowledge
As privatisation of educational structures progresses, the Academy assumes corporate and business mind-set, while we assist to a shift of the educational mission in society from inclusive to exclusive. The inﬂuential play of industries has permeated most academical disciplines, in particular regarding the adoption of technologies. The choice of educators has become biased by logics of short term proﬁt, rather than Solid Knowledge.

Almost Documentary: Celcrabeels' introduction to taxi-to-praxi

celcrabeels — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:49:06 +0000

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Dear all, I have thought about the questions put to us by Taxi to Praxi. I will elaborate a bit.

How do you define practice-led artistic research?

One has to look at the context, the Bologna Process aims to create a European Higher Education Area by 2010. Due to this process the Belgian Academy’s and University’s recently are merging into one structure. This evolution has created a need for 'PhD candidate researchers in Fine Art ' in the Belgian. academic world.

Apropos Open Source Methodologies

Armin Medosch — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:30:51 +0000

When we first started to circulate the call for taxi-to-praxi some of the reactions which I got in private email were of the kind "open source methodology, what's that supposed to be?" - "there is no such things", " etc. Since that moment I thought aha, we are on to something and I should write something about it. This is now not the all conclusive article, but a forum posting, improvised and unfinished.

The Next Layer as a Medium for Practice-led Research

Armin Medosch — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:23:18 +0000

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Taxi to Praxi
This text expands on some of the topics mentioned in the original call for participation for the taxi-to-praxi workshop. It explains some of the motivations and the general ideas behind the research day but is by now way a complete summary of all the topics we would like to address. Currently to this text have contributed Lindsay Brown, Adnan Hadzi and Armin Medosch. If you feel that you would like to add something, please feel free to rewrite this text or create a new one. To create a new revision, do the following: Once you are in the edit section with this article open, apply your changes and then go to the bottom and click "create new revision". You can also use the text field "Log Message" to explain your revisions.

Crit

Lindsay — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:06:50 +0000

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An excerp from a valuable conversation on practice-led research and what that means in relation to process and the notion of an artwork.

Practice-led Outcome

Lindsay — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:32:25 +0000

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Even though I was accepted onto the PhD programme with a Scholarship, in the Scottish practice-led PhD system it is usual for researchers in their first year to be classed as MPhil students with a transfer to PhD after one year. For this transfer to take place students have to make a presentation of their work, give a brief talk and write a paper of around 10,000 words. Next week I will present some of my practical work in a public setting, the details of which I’ve listed below. After this I will be concentrating on my transfer paper for which I have been given a six-month extension.

Subjects and Questions

Lindsay — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:36:00 +0000

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For my Master of Fine Arts degree I started looking at the cross-over of interior and exterior landscapes. My initial investigations were done in quite a basic way, where I concerned myself with the sanitised representations of ‘man-made’ nature contained in domestic interior and exterior decoration, taking the separation of space provided by architecture for granted. The time-span that predominately interested me was from the 1750’s through to the Victorian age.

Object Scores

Lindsay — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:39:13 +0000

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Art in Hospital was established in 1991 as a charitable and autonomous visual arts in healthcare organization, that worked within Greater Glasgow NHS to ‘bring the visual arts into the mainstream of the health service where it can be part of the service that a hospital can offer; that it is seen not as diversional therapy but as an artistic discipline in its own right.’ Graduate artists do not work as art therapists, but as artists.