Tutor meeting
9th October
Tutor meeting
Matthew Bennington
The first individual tutor meeting of the year. This is something I was eagerly awaiting as I had not yet written my statement of intent and wanted to verbally clarify the direction of my work. The short period of time provided is difficult to do this as I also had to explain my practice holistically to my tutor. To try to reduce this issue I had emailed links to my work, blog and writing before the meeting in hope this would save time. This was successful as he had already looked at my work and was ready to discuss where I am currently at.
We first discussed the current screen printing project and how my imagery is site specific to the brief. The imagery, of roots entangled, is in reference to the overlapping, intertwining information found in all the books in the library.
Here I was recommended a book to look into; The Library Of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/The%20Library%20of%20Babel.pdf
I will read and reflect on this in a separate blog post.
We discussed my tile concept at length and I feel more confident with this project as an ongoing work. He reminded me that the end of the project does not have to be pre decided at the beginning. The ongoing, fluid documentation of my research is held in the fabric of the tiles. This discussion extended to how and where the tiles could be displayed. This was useful as I was unsure of how to display the work in the time before I finish the project.
Further to these topics, we discussed the current film project I am undertaking along with my writing work. I feel the multidisciplinary aspects I am choosing to adopt will aid me this year in completing the 'experimentation' aspect of the objective. Within the meeting, the notion of presentation was discussed and I was reminded to think outside the box about how I can combine research with visual works.
Overall the meeting was positive and encouraging, allowing me to feel more confident in the direction my practice is moving.
Tutor meeting
Matthew Bennington
The first individual tutor meeting of the year. This is something I was eagerly awaiting as I had not yet written my statement of intent and wanted to verbally clarify the direction of my work. The short period of time provided is difficult to do this as I also had to explain my practice holistically to my tutor. To try to reduce this issue I had emailed links to my work, blog and writing before the meeting in hope this would save time. This was successful as he had already looked at my work and was ready to discuss where I am currently at.
We first discussed the current screen printing project and how my imagery is site specific to the brief. The imagery, of roots entangled, is in reference to the overlapping, intertwining information found in all the books in the library.
Here I was recommended a book to look into; The Library Of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/The%20Library%20of%20Babel.pdf
I will read and reflect on this in a separate blog post.
We discussed my tile concept at length and I feel more confident with this project as an ongoing work. He reminded me that the end of the project does not have to be pre decided at the beginning. The ongoing, fluid documentation of my research is held in the fabric of the tiles. This discussion extended to how and where the tiles could be displayed. This was useful as I was unsure of how to display the work in the time before I finish the project.
Further to these topics, we discussed the current film project I am undertaking along with my writing work. I feel the multidisciplinary aspects I am choosing to adopt will aid me this year in completing the 'experimentation' aspect of the objective. Within the meeting, the notion of presentation was discussed and I was reminded to think outside the box about how I can combine research with visual works.
Overall the meeting was positive and encouraging, allowing me to feel more confident in the direction my practice is moving.
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