ADAS writing workshop & Academic Tutorials

Posted byEva WangPosted inIRRESISTIBLE

Aleya talked about the artist statement today. It should be holistic, not project based, mainly describing works and selves as practitioners. It focuses on the following outcome:

A2: Demonstrate an understanding of historical and contemporary precedents and how they relate to your developing practice;

A4: Clearly articulate the intellectual and technical processes involved in the production of your work 

There’re many other words classmates used: Abstract, Dissect, Simply, Capture, Imagery, Review, Practice, Listen, Embody, Respond, Observe, Question, Draw, Experiment, Search, Make, Consider, Research, Creative, Product.

A/D statements act as an introduction to your practice as a whole, highlighting common concerns, motivations and processes running throughout.

It’s for readers to understand your work better.

To present YOURSELF as you would like others to see you and your practice: a photographer.

  1. describes their key ideas/work = D (3 lines)
  2. expands on these ideas and analyses the work, its intentions and meanings = A (6 lines)
  3. shows how they evaluate their work  =  E (How it articulates the intentions) (3 lines)

An example of the start:

My work explores the notions of …

I also had a tutorial with Kyung Hwa. I’m especially interested in the following objects:

I listed some verbs to describe the irresistible desire/impulse: suck/draw/attract/absorb/pull. And it reminded me of tornado and magnet forces. Looking into the eye, I remembered Marc Quinn’s work:

And iron powder forms a similar shape with the force of a ring magnet actually. So I came up with an idea as below:

I want to put iron powder in water in a glass container. Initially it would be like an iris shape. Then I want to use a light bulb to represent the irresistible attraction because light/sun is usually what eyes are longing for compared to darkness however, strong light could damage eyes at the same time physically. Emotionally, light represents warmth and it’s usually what people long for. The bulb contains magnets that would damages the iris shape. I plan to photograph the process.

However, Kyung Hwa thought my practice plan wouldn’t convey my idea well. She still suggested me to try it out to see how it looked and also think about different interpretations of eyes. Now I’m just focusing on the shape, but I could also think about gaze (from the blind) and observation.

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