WhatHowWhy

The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2013-14 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.

Connie

First work

Jules Verne Op-Object

What:

Jules Verne Op-Object is a digital photograph, painted with oil. The photograph is of a small sculpture made from clay, sellotape and fabric. The piece was made for a group which was held in a private house, whose owners had a collection of the british Op-artist's Michael Kidner's paintings.

How:

The piece was made by working with the clay, fabric and sellotape, to make an object that when photographed could resemble a land mass or glacier. The photograph was then painted on, changing its status from a multiple to an original.

Why:

The piece was made in response to a visit to Iceland, where I encountered vast landscapes. I began thinking about Vules Verne's 'Journey to the Centre to the Earth,' and the resurgence of interest in 19th century science fiction in the 1960's with the advent of psychedelia.

Second Work

Theory of The Romantic Sportsman

What:

This piece is single dub plate with a 3 minute sound recording on each side, made in collaboration with Sophie Lee. Side A is a spoken word rap over a beat produced by Killian Immervol, and side B in the instrumental version. The cover artwork was also produced in collaboration.

How:

Sophie Lee and I worked together to write and record the words to create a three minute spoken word rap using the sound editing software Logic. We then sent to file to a carvery which cut the track onto a dub plate. The cover artwork was produced by working with a model and a photographer.

Why:

The words for the rap were produced in response to Tiqquin's publication 'Theory of a Young Girl.' The character of the Romantic Sportsman was a joint creation between Sophie Lee and myself, as was based on a young white male city-dwelling fine art graduate working as a gallery technician and consumed with creating his own aesthetic world to reside in.