Saturday, January 29, 2011

An exercise in describing practice


After some very practical and fun exercises in Pat's AAW class, we have put together outlines for our theses. Though I am not so focused on my thesis at this moment, it has been an interesting exercise to list/organize a variety of keywords that also incorporate Patrick Rock's idea of presenting the who/what/when/where/why & how. Here goes:

Artist Roles
            Facilitator
            Provocateur
            Participant
            Multiple Authorship
            Collaborator
            Pseudo Scientist:
                        Ethnographer
                        Cartographer
                        Archivist
                        Librarian
                        Anthropologist
                        Historian
                        Explorer
                        Collector
                        Chef
                        Hostess
                        Entertainer
                        Tour Guide
                        Disseminator
                        Curator
Form
            Music
                        Harmony
                        Accessibility
                        Immediacy
                        Stage presence
                        Audience/Artist
                        Music Styles
                                    Jingles
                                    Anthems
                                    Janthems
                                    Work Songs
                                    Songs about Work
            Conversation
            Singing and Dancing
            Cheerleading
            Cooking & Meal Sharing
            Recipe Sharing
            Everyday Pastimes
            Library/Archive
           
Method        
            Economy of Form           
            Improvisation
            Energy
            Ritual
            Essential
            Generosity
            Inclusion
            Reciprocity
            Engagement
            Performance

Results
            Experience Making
            Community Building
            Relationship Building
            Resource Sharing
            Education/Pedagogy
            Space Making
            Place Making
            Feel-Goodness
            Fun

Art Objects/Documentation/Residue
         Recordings
         Videos
         Printed Matter
         Photographs        
         Sculpture
         Text

Location
            International
                        Cultural Ambassador
                        Interpret
                        Misinterpret
            Local
            Site Specific
            Public Space
           
Alternative Economy
            WPA
            Business Cards
            Gifting
            Jingles

Conflicts
            Renaissance Woman vs. Dilettante
            Expert vs. Amateur
            Positivity as Radical?
            Lack of criticality?
            Generosity vs. Reciprocity
Influence/Related Research
            Family
            Catholicism (inadvertently)
            Artists & Movements
                        Harrell & Jen
                        Dan Walsh
                        Sophie Calle
                        Janet Cardiff
                        Annette Messager (early work)
                        Eva Hesse (early work)
                        Finnish Complaint Choir
                        Nina Katchadourian
                        Suzanne Lacy
                        Nathaniel Parsons
                        1960s-1970s
                        Conceptual Art
                        Performance Art
                        Dada
                        Fluxus
                        Duchamp
            CESTA
                        Curatorial practice as art & activism
                        Anarcho-Communal Living
                        Life-Art interchange
            Song Poem movie
            Malcom X
            Pirate Radio
            Punk Rock
            Food/Cookbooks
                        Kitchen Sisters
                        Jaime Oliver
                        Alice Waters
                        Deborah Madison
                        The Splendid Table
                        Michael Pollan
            Martha Stewart
            Stephanie Syjuco
  
Readings/Criticism
            Bourriaud
            Clare Bishop
            Miwon Kwon
            Hal Foster
            Claude Levi-Strauss
            Boris Groys
            Buddhism
            Nihilism
            Ted Purves
            Suzanne Lacy
            Loosy Lippard
            Dick Reuss
            Julia Bryan Wilson


Needs work:
Motivations
         Travel, Make Art & Get Paid for it... (this was at one time a motivation)
Context/Framing
Process

I would be happy if anyone wanted to add/subtract/comment- Thanks

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