research

Who is Afraid of Artistic Research? (3)

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

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Burning Water with Radio

Lindsay — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:22:10 +0000

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Old news perhaps, but new to me and one for the notebook.

Rewriting of History - Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

Armin Medosch — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:16:25 +0000

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Thanks to Doll Yoko for making us aware of Caliban and the Witch - Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici. In Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici looks at the transition from feudalism to capitalism from the point of view of 'women, the body and primitive accumulation'. Her key thesis is that the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th century were instrumental to establishing a new capitalist order through 'the development of a 'new sexual division of labour subjugating women's labour and women's reproductive function to the reproduction of the workforce.' Yet by telling the story also from Caliban's point of view, symbol of the 'trans-Atlantic' proleterian, Federici achieves what she claims: to transcend the dichotomy between "gender" and "class". This book is also a brilliant description of the process of primitive accumulation, in particular the enclosures of the common land starting at the end of the middle age and the various forms of resistance to that by renegade women and the 'motley crowd' of the working classes.

Creative City Discourse: Amsterdam as New Babylon

Armin Medosch — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:18:16 +0000

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Interesting piece about creative city policy in Amsterdam in Variant by Merijn Oudenampsen
http://www.variant.randomstate.org/31texts/issue31.html#L6

The following quotes are from "Back to the Future of the Creative City
An Archaeological Approach to Amsterdam’s Creative Redevelopment" by Merijn Oudenampsen in Variant, issue 31, Spring 2008

Danger: Lest Taxi to Praxi be Forgotten

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

Intellectual Craftsmanship - John Barker about C.W.Mills and methodology

John Barker — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:29:22 +0000

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John Barker is both a novelist and an author of non-fiction essays about political, social and cultural issues. Barker's essays, published in magazines such as Variant or Mute Magazine, bristle with historic depth and accuracy of information, woven into critical narrations written in a dense prose. This evident richness of background research is maybe a result of Barker being inspired by the research methodology of a great of the 20th century, C.W.Mills. In this guest contribution, written specifically for thenextlayer.org and the taxi-to-praxi workshop, John Barker introduces us to Mills' concept of intellectual craftsmanship.

Knowledge Transfer Conference Scotland

Lindsay — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:57:45 +0000

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Knowledge Transfer Conference Scotland
St Andrews University
Friday the 4th April 2008

Part One

Knowledge Transfer (KT) involves the two-way flow of ideas, skills and people between the research and higher education community and wider users in Society in the public and private sectors.

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.

Saucy Tales

Lindsay — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:31:45 +0000

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The Art and Science of Saucy Tales: Thinking Through Myth, Metaphor, Measuring and Back Again.

A synopsis of my research project for practice-led PhD can be found at the link below.

History of Copper Wire

Lindsay — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:36:52 +0000

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As my research encompasses the making of antennae out of copper wire, I have listed some of the interesting search links that were uncovered in a google search on history of copper wire (up to pg 35).

Musicology: Early British Bands and Music Hall artists

Armin Medosch — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:41:42 +0000

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This is an image of a youthful Billy Reid, well known in the 1930ies as bandleader of Billy Reid and his piano accordion orchestra. Billy started out as a boiler maker apprentice in the Southampton docks.

Anyone who can bung me some tunes from Billy is very welcome.

Arthur Lloyd website
http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/index.html

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.

Working Backwards Through a Methodology

Lindsay — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:40:29 +0000

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It is almost one year since I started my practice-led PhD, and in that time my eight-page proposal has reduced to five hundred words and grew again like an unwieldy hedge that needs constantly maintained by clipping. This first year has also been spent avoiding the issue of how, as a practicing artist, I can fit my non-verbal language and ways of researching into a recognised framework, where my hypothesis or questions are still not clear.

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.