Looking forward to the session with John and Jackie today.
Today I'll be opening up the discussion about my own blogs and looking at :
- http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
- http://www.woostercollective.com/
- http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/
JY
Monday, 23 February 2009
Blog focus
Hi all,
Looking forward to the session with John and Jackie today.
Today I'll be opening up the discussion about my own blogs and looking at :
JY
Looking forward to the session with John and Jackie today.
Today I'll be opening up the discussion about my own blogs and looking at :
JY
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Socks and Fear
Hi all, looking forward to your blogs on Monday!
You might have seen an email inviting you to take part in Sock Exchange- would really love for you to get involved, be great to hear your thoughts and see your images/links or any ideas at:
http://www.myspace.com/artsockexchange
Also if you're up in Sheffield, invite to show above at Bloc Gallery and Work Station,
http://www.fearandoptimism.com/
Jay
Blog Clinic: Monday 23 February
The Monday 23 February discursive section will be conducted as a Blog Clinic to assess the development of Year One blogs. Join John, Jacqueline, and Jay to address any blog-related technical or critical issues.
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
YEAR ONES: START BLOGGING!
Or face the wrath... Aw, just kidding. Jokes aside, here are a few Year One blogs which I've found inspiring, thoughtprovoking, or generally entertaining this week:
Monday, 16 February 2009
Live Blogging Lecture: A Smackhead Stole My Rainbow Pants
Here is a recap of Jacqueline Passmore's February 2 lecture Live Blogging/A Smackhead Stole My Rainbow Pants:
After leaving our first Critical Context session on 26th January, I boarded the 16:48 Virgin Rail train from Lime Street to London Euston. At some point before our 19:00 arrival, my bag was stolen off the luggage rack directly above me. The bag contained personal items including my clothes and toiletries for the week in London, but as well, the holy grail of my personal possessions: my battered but beloved 2004 G4 laptop.
The grand irony of the situation is that I was travelling back to London in order to spend a week at Apple Europe HQ to receive an advanced level of certification in the video editing software I use daily in much of my work. So there I was bright and early the next morning, underslept after a long night of frantic phone calls to the British Transport Police, my boyfriend, and my bank manager, disheveled in yesterday's travel sweater dress and fringed moccasins-- laptopless in Apple HQ, surrounded by a sea of bright, gleaming new MacBook Pros. The class I was in consisted of 12 other professional editors- all very nice guys- but all male, and most substantially older than me. I was introduced to the class, "This is Jacqueline. She is the first girl we've ever had on this course." It was meant well, but you know... no pressure....
In keeping with our promise to blog along with the course, my lecture 'Live Blogging/A Smackhead Stole My Rainbow Pants' was meant to candidly introduce students to the ways in which I use blogging to reflect on real life influences on my artistic practice and thought processes. In this case, I detailed the imprint that the theft left on my week: my inability to adequately perform without my technical tools, the feelings of professional amnesia/memory loss that I experienced after the theft, and the feelings of exposure and privacy violation I felt at having my work, thoughts, and personal belongings stolen and potentially accessed by strangers.
What arose from my week of technical disenfranchisement was a flood of thoughts, writing, and sketches for work about the physicality of identity and memory, modes of communication, degrees of vulnerability, and my personal and professional reliance on technology. I also drew parallels to existing works which I felt connection to through the course of the week, such as Sophie Calles's The Address Book (1983) and Jem Cohen's stunning Lost Book Found (1996). Other points of interest include the work of Vito Acconci and Kristin Lucas's Refresh.
As such, I rounded out the session by presenting the class an approximate list of the actual and digital contents of my bag/computer from memory (e.g., Yves Saint Laurent foundation with brush in no. 5, the aforementioned embarrassing rainbow knickers, two VGA to BNC adaptors, photos of my work at the Glucksman opening, an open sticky on my laptop containing my shopping list: kale, almond butter, apricots...)- excised my anger by announcing to the class that I was going to rob them (I didn't)- and finally, by passing round a copy of my fingerprints, offering the entire class the opportunity to view/access my identity. Highly cathartic- and an effective live exercise of the blogging process.
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Jay at Bluecoat
Jay Young took part in a discussion at Bluecoat last night about her work and issues of Globalisation and localisation. Also speaking with her was Sean Hawkridge. Since leaving Liverpool School of Art and Design a few years ago Sean has had a scholarship/residency with Static, helped to set up the Liverpool based artists group/studios ‘The Royal Standard’, has exhibited and made art internationally and currently works at Liverpool Biennial.
For Sean, being an artist today meant being global. Sean stressed the necessity to make links and to make work flexibly enough to enable movement and critical response to a changing environment. For Sean, sitting alone in his own studio would drive him ‘mad’. His own work has two main themes. One is ‘random acts of kindness’. The other is a response to the way we situate ourselves, and communicate with, our changing environments. Sean also stressed the importance of making online work and keeping up a good website – http://www.seanhawkridge.com/
For Jay, working as an artist over the last few years has been a constant dialogue with different places and different people. Jay has worked in numerous environments. Her last work was part of the ‘Happy Stacking’ project, run by Grizedale Arts – http://www.grizedale.org/ , which saw several artists working in a remote Chinese ‘eco tourist’ town. For Jay, working with others means finding out about them. Jay thought that going somewhere new and doing the same work that she usually did would be a waste of time. Interestingly enough, Jay also works without a permanent studio environment, preferring to make plans/ideas/critical interventions until the point arises when she ‘needs to make work for a specific purpose’.
For Sean, being an artist today meant being global. Sean stressed the necessity to make links and to make work flexibly enough to enable movement and critical response to a changing environment. For Sean, sitting alone in his own studio would drive him ‘mad’. His own work has two main themes. One is ‘random acts of kindness’. The other is a response to the way we situate ourselves, and communicate with, our changing environments. Sean also stressed the importance of making online work and keeping up a good website – http://www.seanhawkridge.com/
For Jay, working as an artist over the last few years has been a constant dialogue with different places and different people. Jay has worked in numerous environments. Her last work was part of the ‘Happy Stacking’ project, run by Grizedale Arts – http://www.grizedale.org/ , which saw several artists working in a remote Chinese ‘eco tourist’ town. For Jay, working with others means finding out about them. Jay thought that going somewhere new and doing the same work that she usually did would be a waste of time. Interestingly enough, Jay also works without a permanent studio environment, preferring to make plans/ideas/critical interventions until the point arises when she ‘needs to make work for a specific purpose’.
The discussion which followed both presentations addressed issues of the local and the global. Suggestions were made about the new relationships that now exist between globalised economies and smaller ‘local’ hubs of activity. One suggestion was that the most cutting edge work now gets made on a constantly shifting ‘periphery’ which acts as a counterpoint to a bland globalising culture. Another was that we are now all ‘glocal’ – a mixture of the local and the global.
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Monday, 26 January 2009
Smile....
Thanks for joining in today's session, looking forward to all to come,
oh, here's an action shot from today!
JY
Sunday, 25 January 2009
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Jay's Blogs
Process Specific
Commissioned by A-N on run up up to 2006 Degree Show at Dundee University to create a blog about my work as a student
http://www.a-nunedited.co.uk/dsu/index.php?page=blogdetail&uid=171&year=2006
Project Specific
Open Here- Artlab, Munich Residency , EU funded, 2007
Follows several artist voices from Liverpool
http://liverpoolartlab1.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html
Paradise Stories, 2008 Part of Capital of Culture programme, my own curatorial project and solo show funded by Liverpool Culture Company, blog/website
www.myspace.com/paradisestories
Happy Stacking, 2008
Invited to Nanling China by Vitamin Creative Space, Guangdong, China and Grizedale Arts. Blogs follow 7 UK based artists
http://www.happystacking.tv/blog/k=jay%20produce
Welcome one and all
Welcome to Blog Central Level 1 Bloggers!
Jackie, John and I thought it would be useful to have a central location for all blogs to be collated so we have set up this hub for all your individual blog links to be added.
Blogger.com is a free, easy to use blogging site, and regularly used by bloggers. You might wish to have a look around to see what features it hosts, or if you prefer you may choose to use another site entirely to host your own blog.
We can use this space also as a forum for leaving each other messages, or share comments on blogs which we may be able to discuss here/extend in our sessions together, or you may prefer to engage directly with your fellow student's blog. This is an open space and up to you how you decide to manage and the way in which you input. Given the Critical Context of this strand of the course and its impetus on your work in practice, this space alongside your own blog can hopefully become alive with your ideas and critical thought analysis pertaining to your work process. We can also access each others blogs and develop a supportive framework in which to progress our practice.
So..... happy blogging!!!!
JY
Blogger.com is a free, easy to use blogging site, and regularly used by bloggers. You might wish to have a look around to see what features it hosts, or if you prefer you may choose to use another site entirely to host your own blog.
We can use this space also as a forum for leaving each other messages, or share comments on blogs which we may be able to discuss here/extend in our sessions together, or you may prefer to engage directly with your fellow student's blog. This is an open space and up to you how you decide to manage and the way in which you input. Given the Critical Context of this strand of the course and its impetus on your work in practice, this space alongside your own blog can hopefully become alive with your ideas and critical thought analysis pertaining to your work process. We can also access each others blogs and develop a supportive framework in which to progress our practice.
So..... happy blogging!!!!
JY
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