Tutorial over Zoom - many things to follow up

Debord Book- must finish 

Had the chance of a Tutorial with City Lit  Art & Design's Moving Image specialist Dr Pete Gomes today.

One of the things that I was aware of and will now act is to make the online posts more reflective - with the benefit of time I will revisit and hopefully be able to extrapolate more in the way of lessons and attitudes to my own efforts.

(will append my posts in another colour to make this review clear-ish.)

It was a wide ranging conversation that covered quite a lot of areas  one name that I thought was familiar was Guy Debord who I had come across when I read Malcolm McLaren's biography - have started reading about the French Situationist but  not yet completed .


Here's a bit of the conversation (on Zoom Chat) with some notes from me - it was useful for me to try and convey my thoughts and direction and Pete did well to get a sense of my interests...


Socially Engaged Practice
11:15:00 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

spectrum
11:15:14 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Further field.org
11:15:24 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

(a link for me to follow) 

furtherfield.org
11:15:59 From Tim B to Everyone:

https://austinkleon.com/
11:16:56 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/socially-engaged-practice
11:17:37 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

https://www.salford.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/socially-engaged-arts-practice
11:20:03 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

(another link for me to follow - this one good as it pointed a way for practice that is perhaps less rarefied?) 

Participatory practcie
11:20:07 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

practice
11:26:24 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

http://stephenwillats.com/
11:27:28 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

http://stephenwillats.com/work/where-do-i-belong/
11:27:42 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

http://stephenwillats.com/work/four-pressures-four-freedoms/
11:30:09 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

derive
11:30:12 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Guy debord
11:32:08 From Tim B to Everyone:

https://youtu.be/aQWaW3wYoKY
11:33:08 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

http://stephenwillats.com/work/time-tumbler-drawings/

another artist who has a way of approaching his audience in another way  

11:34:50 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Photography in the book?
11:35:01 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

photocollage
11:36:39 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Conversation in art
11:37:08 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Joseph beuys
11:38:06 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

marina abramovich
11:38:16 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Social engagement
11:41:20 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

research into social practice in art
11:41:57 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Instagram accounts
11:47:08 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

(fits well with last week's Core)

Exploring / Testing / Refining - Pete suggested this could be a useful mantra
11:47:20 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Not linear
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Pete felt that my work didn't necessarily chime with what I spoke about as my direction. 

Pete did suggest that I should take the opportunity to 'get lost' at this stage and not focus only on the prescribed path. 

I have some directions to go in and even when some of the approaches are not what immediately have jumped to my mind, the suggestions from someone looking in are useful and at least make me ask questions of myself.


Having reflected on our zoom call I believe one of the things  I have taken from the course so far is a chance to look at other tools that might be applicable to a given purpose (these are by their nature somewhat superficial) -they give the chance to go off and see if I can use various ideas/tools  and not be too straightjacketed by what I have known previously.

So I might not know how to make a good poster but I can see where it might be useful and try to incorporate some of what a 'good' poster can offer. 

I would conclude  as well as being interested in connecting with audiences |(collectives and the like can help with this) I'm also interested in connecting with applicable and engaging methods and approaches 

A most useful forty-five minutes or so.

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