staking out the ground, a research framework. who or how is artist realized
Defining a ground, a research framework—who is artist based on conventions of doing, vocational practices? Artist’s doings (art making?) realize into social space the invocation of assessment of...
View ArticleArt as an Accounting of Oneself. Reflecting artist into a Judith Butler essay.
Butler’s text, “An Account of Oneself” in Judith Butler in Converstation: Analyzing Texts and Talk of Everyday Life (2008), for me calls to mind the fact that I can never keep my fingernails clean. As...
View Articleam I artist as a way to …
Am I artist as a way to account for the ways i am unable to negotiate particular conventions in a fashion I can live with? I don’t recall a time in which I was not paying attention to the way I or...
View Articleaccounting again and again for myself – i am scholar, only sort of, it is an...
MORNING MUSING. i find myself accounting again and again for myself as i navigate rendering myself legible, viable, particularly in the realm as scholar, even neophyte scholar. i find myself brushing...
View ArticleWHAT? Am I artist as a way to account for the ways i am unable to negotiate...
MORNING MUSING. Am I artist because I cannot fully navigate the path of scholar, cube worker, day laborer, housewife, mother? Perhaps the lack a capacity to fulfill those roles has influence, but i did...
View Articleart making as contextual other–as resolving alternate avenues of being
MORNING MUSINGS. “Moments of unknowingness about oneself tend to emerge in the context of relations to others, suggesting that these relations call upon primary forms of relationally that are not...
View ArticleDaniel Ariel’s hot state and creative acts
MORNING MUSING From the frame of behavioral economics in Predictable Irrational, Daniel Ariel discusses hot (affect) ethics. Hmmm, entertainingly he designed his experiment not around anger, which is...
View Articleregulating anxiety / relevance to doing artist
the creative act is defined as the introduction of alternatives to what already exists within cultural practice or knowledge. artists toy with ways of being and knowing pressing the edges of regimes of...
View ArticleAnnie Albers
To restore to the designer the experience of direct experience of a medium, is, I think, the task today. Here is, as I see it, a justification for crafts today. For it means taking, for instance, the...
View Articledissolution at the threshold of other
who unfolds you onto your own pathways–remembering you not archivalily but in presence–without a dissolution at the threshold of other into other? yet the materialization of self is neither accessed...
View ArticleGrosz notions worth intertwining with Butlerian logic
Thoughts to hold and muddle over for their ring of relevance: What distinguish the arts from other forms of cultural production are the ways in which artistic production merges with, intensify and...
View Articlephilosophical sensory slutting and carnal knowledge
I remember sitting through my historical aesthetics philosophy last fall. Balk I did at the mind sets (ha) in which the mind was/is privileged over situated bodily experiences, as though the body was...
View ArticleLast chance to de-stink the four legged tail wagging she beast
With a visit to Buddy Holly park.
View Articleperforating mortise learning curve, life lessons + human (stupidity) factor
I won’t lie, this lesson hurt! Sure I know to never align any part of my body in the path of cutting direction. As a matter of fact I spent the entire day after christmas cutting 3/4″ panels for...
View ArticleThe healing power of the body is pretty amazing
The missing hamburger is filling in nicely with a human jelly like substance, though I doubt I will get any swirls of my finger print back. Perhaps I should commit a crime now while the print remains...
View ArticleLouise Bourgeois: the fabric of her language
Introduction excerpt by Marie-Laure Bernadac (Louise Bourgeois…Writings and Interviews 1923-1997) “Louise Bourgeois began writing her diary at the age of twelve and has never stopped. Her cupboards are...
View ArticleYou must do it to get hold of yourself–Louise Bourgeois
You can stand anything if you write it down. You must do it to get hold of yourself…you must redirect your concentration…words put in connection can open up new relations, a new view of things. Louise...
View ArticleThe delicacy of filling in and healing up
The unfortunate encounter with my own human factor (stupidity) and a plunge router (sort of–designed for making mortise joints) surprisingly still hurts almost two weeks after the fact, yet it is...
View Articleyou might be a nerd when
you know you are in grad school and should be because you get totally stoked about a course’s reading list and at least half of them were on your reading bucket list. BAM
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