Emma McIntire's talk's reflection:
In McIntire's talk/Q&A session she talked about how important her research was to her practice, looking at artists works and practices to help her think about her own ideas in relation to making. I was really interested in this and the fact that research is an ongoing process in your practice, rather than just an 'art-school' thing, or somethings that you're required to do for a curriculum. Not that i think of research in that way, but often it is a sense of obligation for getting good grades and passing the course with 'research.' McIntire talked about research as something that continues through various forms within ones artistic practice, such as being influenced by her surroundings, the art scene where she currently lives [LA] as well as doing more directed research via online and text based sources. In relation to this, Hiria Anderson, Margy Aull and Maraea Timutimu in a post-seminar zoom meeting, talked about research's importance and being aware and involved in the artists, creatives, core and surrounding ideas of your field.
I think i used to struggle a bit with research, as either i didn't do enough of it, or became hung up on research so much that my making and work output would become weak. Also i wasnt sure whether the research propagated ideas for my making, or was it actually the making that guided and directed me towards relevant sources. At this point, however, i think i have come to acknowledge my intuition as a guidance for making art and exploring ideas. I think i'm an instinctive maker rather than directly influenced by something i have researched. Research is something that opens up links to the outside world to my ideas and thinking. I try to see it as somewhat of a pathway into more complex ideas, and i really enjoy trying to find connections of my intuitional making to the outside world and to what other artists are thinking.
Some artists that sprung out of the conversations in the seminar:
-Deleuze and Gucatti- the machine
- Julia Kelly
- Moana Jackson
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