presentation for OCA year 1 2013

1. defining
research
within
practice

2. ask yourself questions lots and continuously
what do you like doing?
why do you make work?
what’s your work for?
what do you want from your work?
what do you get from your work?
what is your work about?
who is your audience?
where does the work go?

3. What is it that you do?

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5. making connections
art history
music
dance
writing
general history
geography/place
contemporary practice
science

6. your making - contextual framework
social
personal
political
critical/ theoretical
historical
geographical
institutional
cultural

8. social
cultural
personal
historical
political
institutional
critical/theoretical
geographical

9. reflective
practice

10. Getting it out of your head
Diagram

11. Getting it out of your head
Sketch

12. Getting it out of your head
Modelling

13. Deciding on what the idea should
become.
Looking at what already exists
Looking at the work of others
Reflecting on your initial intention
What is it for ?
Where does it go?
Who is it for?

14. finding your
relationship your
practice

15. the journal - a place for......
Recording
thoughts, ideas, observations, things
Reflecting
to gain understanding
Analyzing
to further your learning
Concluding
setting out what you have thought
about

16. how to use it
write often
note down dates and times
write freely - without hesitation
write down stuff even if its not relevant

17. questions
what happened?
why did it happen?
what do I think about this?
what should I do as a result of this?
how do I do this?

18. lateral thinking
problem solving
material understanding
experimental investigation
research skills

19. bookness
what can a book be?
what makes a book a book?
when does a book stop being a book?
where does book end?

21. binding

27. order

28. collections

29. structure

38. folding

39. words / text

40. Ian Hamilton Finlay

48. codes/communication

50. documentation / dissemination

54. performance

57. image

62. process

64. distribution

66. sequence

82. observe and collect

91. unpicking and rebinding
unpickingandrebinding.blogspot.com

92. The Ambassadors Return to the English Court
1495 -1500
Vittore Carpaccio

95. Crafts Council of Ireland
Modified Expression.

97. Codex –
between this and that.
http://codexinvestigations.tumblr.com/

99. repeat
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http://www.academia.edu/1316741/Repe

102. Durer Self-Portrait at 26 1498

104. William Morris

109. In that empire, the craft of cartography attained such
perfection that the map of a single province covered the space
of an entire city and the map of the empire itself an entire
province. In the course of time, these extensive maps were
found somehow wanting, and so the College of Cartographers
evolved a map of the empire that was of the same scale as the
empire and that coincided with it point for point.
The following generations, less attentive to the study of
cartography, came to judge a map of such magnitude
cumbersome and quite useless and it was abandoned to the
rigours of sun and rain. In the western deserts, tattered
fragments of the map are still to be found sheltering an
occasional beast or beggar; in all the land, no other relic is left
of the discipline of geography.
Borges, Jose Luis. On Exactitude in Science.

113. when does a bend
become a fold?
when does an object
become itself?

114. Plate III, Drawings
of clubs,
boomerangs,
shields and spears
moving from simple
forms to complex in
a radiating pattern.
On the Evolution of
Culture 1875.
Rethinking PittRivers | Pitt-Rivers
Publications Plates.
Pitt-Rivers

117. a thing is just a
thing without a
story

120. the link between
the pleat
and
the liperello
(concertina) binding

123. unpickingandrebinding.blogspot.com

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