To explore why how this incident occurred I will use the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu theories of cultural capital and field theory.
Glossary of terms
Habitus – “A structuring structure, which organizes practices and the perception of practices. eg people
Doxa
“Universe of tacit presuppositions that organize action within the field” e.g university guidelines
Cultural capital –
For Bourdieu, cultural capital which is part of the habitus acts as a social relation within a social system of knowledge that confers power and status.
Displaying cultural capital can lead to benefits, such as gaining status or acceptance, therefore this can also transfer into social capital
Displaying cultural capital can bring rewards or incur costs, depending on the cultural/social situation.
http://youtu.be/FlWf6ejbBGw?t=13m22s
Symbolic capital – can be referred to as the resources available to an individual on the basis of honour, prestige or recognition, and serves as value that one holds within a culture- a well respected artist
The meeting of various habitus produces a social capital
So when applying those terms to the fourth video in no to £650 the social capital of my university environment was changed when the artist abused her position as someone with symbolic capital and the acceptances of the audience went against the doxa of the university guidelines.
My cultural capital came from being born in Birmingham and lived in living in London for many years so I know the artist would not of make those types of comments in those areas, so what does that say about Suffolk? If UCS want’s to attract people from different backgrounds they have got to provide a structure of diversity and equality
In a lecture talk professor Angela Davis talks about how word diversity is missed as an visible term more than a term of content which becomes a difference that doesn’t make a difference.
Angela Davis: How Does Change Happen?
http://youtu.be/Pc6RHtEbiOA?t=44m5s
My experience of the past few weeks has shown me that my diversity left unattended is a purely visible and nothing else.
When understanding Pierre Bourdieu theories of cultraul/social capital and field theory they reminded me of the theories that I was looking at for in the themes of walking before the Hambling incident took place like the Binomial which is the space of action between two forces coming towards each other. This term is used to describe the action scenes in a movie.
The theory of Jean Luc Godard of being the train going between the stations instead of being the station waiting for the train captures my 5am project by having a centre during the unsettling times of my surroundings the centre is still secure enough to understand the flux of change and to take action when needed.
When being in a state of alienation my project handled my the experince of understanding of in order to change mindsets old frameworks needed to be deconstructed and by doing that the social captial for the next students would be enchanced.
Pierre Bourdieu field theory explains my decision to use my studio space as an assessment for my final work. The biggest casualty of having this experience was that it derailed my ideas for my degree show plus over the 2 months because of the tension with the group my space was a very awkward place to being in almost like a scene of a crime where ideas have been killed. So I will be using police styled tape off my space, three strips will be used to capture the three boundaries that I have had to face in understanding my surroundings which are:
*The artist comments
*The reaction to the comments
*The failure of my environment to take this matter seriously
Pierre Bourdieu – An introduction
