22 January 15

Repetition of narrative.

Philosophical thoughts on society.

The main inspiration for this year has been on aspects drawn out from my dissertation.

Last summer, I was surrounded by speculation, lies and deceit that increased the oppression and hatred of a multi-cultural society and racism that has elevated into normality within the everyday conversation.

What interests me is the fact that these idea’s are not our own. No-one is born racist, nor are they born with a political agenda of hatred. As a society that is now completely reliant on technology, we are fed this information repeatedly, on the way to work, at work, in the shops and a night in front of the TV, if you choose to have one . To this we must go to Chomsky: this ‘news’ is in fact the interpretation of the elite that succeed (and have done for years) in constructing the mentality of a society to concede for the sake of cohesion.

This evidently leads you to a paradox of truth, if you cannot trust what one source of information declares, how can you trust any other forms of information?

Before becoming to wrapped within the greater philosophical questions of life, the interpretation of being and the construct of the self, I want to take a step back and reflect upon how this helps us to evaluate our consciousness of being.

By having the information a State wants us to hear constantly repeated to us, this information seeps into the unconscious. Within time, it becomes your consciousness of femininity, your desire to look good, your desire to loose weight, your belief in the fact you have the right to live in a country and have a sustainable income, and another being does not.

My questions is how do you visualise this and bring this into conversation through art?

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30 January 15

Rose English, my response to ‘Men Gather, In Speech…’

Within the University, many artist’s pass through through the doors to engage in workshops, lectures and conversations with an audeience. We were lucky enough to have a ‘In Conversation…’ with Rose English. Having done some research into her vast catalogue of events within her life. What I had not discovered was the significance of her work during the women’s liberation movement in the 60’s and 70’s and her participation in WHACK! of which I had focused on in my 2nd year at Duncan of Jordanstone.

The conversation was opened with a quote from Hannah Arendt, an interesting character that could most definitely take up another post. which became a platform for the discussion of power, the ephemeral and a discovering of the self that leads you through the portfolio of English.

I have been luck enough to be given the opportunity to be part of a collaboration in response to ‘Men Gather, In Speech…’ an exhibition that explores the importance of contextualisation and the value of conversation in relation to the everyday.

Along with 4 other women from the Student Curatorial Team, we reviewed and discussed the artist’s background, Rose English is exhibiting alongside Emma Charles and Abri De Swardt. Having expression similar opinions of their work, we decided to exchange sentences from discussions, or internal monologues from having researched the works. From this we would each make a video and project it onto an ephemeral material: visualising the fragmentation of the conversations within the video.

The exhibition begins 16th February in Cooper Gallery Project Space,Dundee.

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/exhibitions/hot-air-sct/

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