Symposium 3

26th July 2011

Attended by artists; Joy Buttress, Belen Cerezo and Rebecca Gamble.

For this Joy invited Belen and Rebecca to do three mapping exercises, which she recorded to include in her methodology testing, of grouping and articulating the practice of an artist through images of their influences and inspirations.

Joy advised that the process of making 20 images of influences and inspirations of our own practice helps to group the areas of research and to identify which are most relevant.

Symposium 2 Images

Benidorm

Belen Cevezo

"Let's Dance Sugar Lips"

Rebecca Gamble

Symposium 2

18^th July 2011

Attended by artists; Joy Buttress, Belen Cerezo and Rebecca Gamble.

We experienced and discussed the new studio practice of Belen and Rebecca, and asked the artist questions to tease out the concepts and themes of the new piece, and gave feedback and advice of possible lines of artistic, theoretical and philosophical enquiry, which we could highlight from an objective point of view.


Some of the common discussions of the day:

How do we approach the Literature review?

Begin with you, where are you coming from? What is your background? Then map out the areas of the practice, leading to pockets of the literature. Then build the reading around these areas of the practice: key concepts, theories, philosophies, other artists’ works, how others have approached this area and what you are doing differently.

What can ‘literature’ mean  – texts, exhibitions, videos, books, reviews, catalogues…

Literature review is a process, there is a starting point and through the reading and the practice we move to other areas and fields.

It is important to be reading and thinking at the same time as the practice, not to separate the two, as this becomes easier to draw connections between theory and practice.

Writing:

Try breaking down the writing into subject headings and subheadings, to guide the reader clearly through your process, beginning each section with the words: “in this section I will…”

Mapping and grouping the research:

As a tool to make the research questioning clearer, try to map out all of the areas of the practice and research, what is the most important? What is less so? What is grouped with other areas?

This can help us to know what is really important to us and our research.

Practice-as-research

What methods can we use to evaluate the results of the practice – and how do we bring this into the research?

How can the practice be articulated as rigorous research?

Bibliography

What books we recommend each other…

- Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Methods by Dr Gillian Rose

- Vizualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design by Carole Gray

Symposium 2 Programme

18th July 2011

The aim of this day is to encounter the practices of artists Belen Cervezo and Rebecca Gamble, in their artist studios in the Bonington building, as part of the Summer Lodge residency 2011, and to specifically share and discuss the practice produced during this residency and to tease out ideas of how this might lead, provoke, test or shape their PhD research.

Artists contributing to the days programme are Joy Buttress,  Rebecca Gamble, and Belen Cerezo.

More about Summer Lodge here: http://www.summerlodge.org 

Symposium 1 Images

Symposium 1 Programme

24th March 2011

The programme for the day is spread across the city of Nottingham, the city dynamics and architecture will shape the flow of the day, the Artists will respond to the space where they choose to exhibit their work. Site is very important to the days structure as it was felt that the work was to situate itself in its rightful environment rather than alter the works presentation in one venue.  

Artists contributing to the days programme are Joy Buttress,  Rebecca Gamble, and Rhiannon Slade. Documentation will be carried out by Belen Cerezo.


Programme:

Welcome: 9 – 9.30am

Introductions by participants (20mins – 5mins each)

Aims and Objectives (5mins)

Joy Buttress: Session 1  9.30am – 11.30am                                                            
BON301    

In conversation with Artist Joy Buttress: Discursive critique of Work with group

Rhiannon Slade: Session 2   11.30 – 1pm
BON301 

Project methodology – discussion and debate with group

1pm Lunch

Rebecca Gamble: Session 3   2 – 4pm                                                                  
NEWN44M

The Walk – Venue discussion of work

Round Up and Reflections 4 - 4.30pm                                                                  
NEWN44M

Round up and reflection on outcomes 

About Thinking Through Practice

Thinking Through Practice is a student-led, artist research collective at Nottingham Trent University. Through a series of discussions, symposiums, exhibitions and performances we are exploring what artistic practice-as-research can be within the context of a PhD.

The artist research collective is designed for Fine Art and Live Art PhD Students who are conducting their research through practice. Artists studying PhD's at NTU will be able to use this as a platform to experiment with a number of modes of presentation, to disseminate and discuss their practice and to receive constructive critical feedback from this supportive network. 

It will also highlight parallels and differences in undertaking a practice as research methodology, highlight the commonalities and challenges of artistic research, and provide the artists with a supportive framework for exchange and a network for dialogue and sharing of practice in the disciplines of Fine and Live Art.

This will take place through a series of symposiums that are flexible in their site, content and structure, to accommodate for the different modes of dissemination preferred by each artist.

This blog will be used by the TTP artist research collective to map documentation of each symposium and to share links to research resources.