Reading, Writing & Research Methods

Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies 2015-16

Handbook description: "The Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies Seminar is tailored towards (further) developing research methods within the first year of this master. By establishing a solid foundation of research skills, it will eventually prepare students for their Graduate research in the second year. Through reading core theoretical texts, they will establish a common vocabulary and set of references to work from. They will learn the practice of classic ‘essayistic methodologies’, including close reading, annotation, description and notation, students learn to survey a body of literature, filter what is relevant to their research and create comparative pieces of analysis. The seminar helps students to establish methodical drafting processes for their texts, where they can develop ideas further and structure their use of notes and references. The course takes as axiomatic that the perceived division between ‘practice’ and ‘theory’ is essentially an illusion."

Curriculum:

The seminar over the two trimesters will involve:

(a.) Identifying the object of your research: description and analysis of your work

(b.) Contextualizing your work through description and reflection on contemporary and historical practices.

(c.) Identify research material key to your practice.

(d.) Synopsis and annotation of key texts

(e.) Writing machines: creating methods for group and individual writing.

Throughout, there will be an emphasis on working collectively, whether in a larger discussion group or in smaller reading and writing groups.

Outcome:

The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2015-2016 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own method and situates your work in relation to a broader artistic and cultural context. The various texts produced within the RW&RM seminar will serve as source material for your text on method. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support the other elements of the course (Self-directed Research, Issues in Art & Theory, Practice-Group Critiques &c.). Therefore, the text on method will inform your Self-Evaluation at the end of the third trimester and provide the basis for your Graduate Project Proposal that you will produce in the fourth trimester.

Basic style sheet

Titles and works = italics

Essays = Title in Caps

Notation = Harvard System (writer, page number) = (Smith, 26)

URL = make link

Print Room

Where to find books

general tips

TRIMESTER ONE

1-10-15

WhoWhatWhy # 1

week one 71 Oct

WhatHowWhy

past pages methods

Eo Jess Adam Nicholas Dan T Tor Erika Angelica

Oct 29

Exquisite corpse 29-10-15:

Monumental tooth

licking fluffy milkshake

and tacky tears

Icy black hole

Whistles pink monument

Swirly shark

Whipped the sticky sunset

And keys of well being

Pock-marked cock

Drinking juicy molecule

And Rushton’s Steve

Mortified star

Painted chalky roads and sad sex

Ungrateful speaker yells

Weeping many chairs

Flea-bitten shoe, twisting gravel, gleaming Australian accent

Explicit sock folding softly and vegan omelette

Sweet computer set

Flowery gravel

and my lovers

destroyed

follow twinkle cold and colourful trap

Depressed toothpicks descend

Soft shyness

Laundry line

Frequent bell

Slow

Pleasingly bumblebee and axolotl

29-10-15 = Random questions to works of art

upload questions and to and answers from your work here

29-10-15 = What am I doing and what do I want to do?

outline project