Counterpoint Arts In the first week we went on excursion to Counterpoint Arts, a charity and company limited by guarantee that works at the intersection of migration, social change and the arts. Tom Green, a producer at Counterpoint Arts, gave us a fascinating overview of their work. All our work is done in collaboration and… Continue reading MAIP Residency
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3.3 Marsha Bradfield – Dialogic Art + Netiquette
Riding the hyphen. Knitting together different ideas and rolls. Ref thread linking things. What does it mean to say interdependence? Through relationships with the other that you understand who you are and why you are. Dialogic art / doctoral project. Dialogue that made the interaction profound. Worked almost exclusively in collaboration. Artwork is resolved when… Continue reading 3.3 Marsha Bradfield – Dialogic Art + Netiquette
3.2 Greer MacKeogh
Exploring themes relating to host and guest, Greer MacKeough, an artist and researcher from Dublin, took us through an overview of her practice (that forms part of her doctorate) and some of the projects she is currently working on. For me Greer’s work was inspiring in terms of the depth of artistic research she is… Continue reading 3.2 Greer MacKeogh
Transculturality
[a ‘global soul’ might be] a person who had grown up in many cultures all at once – and so lived in the cracks between them […]. She might have a name that gave away nothing about her nationality […], and she might have a porous sense of self that changed with her location. Iyer,… Continue reading Transculturality
UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals Competencies
Education for Sustainable Development Goals: learning objectives (2017), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) contains eight cross-cutting competencies that are “interrelated with each other, transversal, multifunctional, content-independent, and key for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)“. They include: Each SDG and associated cross-cutting competency has learning objectives described in the following domains:
1.7 Stories + Systems
Storytelling is a key component in modern life. With the enormity of available information, it is difficult to get cut through unless you can tell a story well. To explore this special skills further I listened to a podcast interview with Boyd Varty, a lion tracker who runs retreats in South Africa. According to Boyd,… Continue reading 1.7 Stories + Systems
1.6 Leaning + Listening
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1.5 Doing Feedback
Introduction Giving and receiving feedback is an integral part of interpersonal communication and key to understanding our ourselves in the context of complex cultural dynamics. We relate to one another through feedback. Deep listening and generosity is key fhwiphfqiwqoi Online Feedback nivoehivweoas
1.4 Interviewing
We need to continually have a dialogue about oppression but how do we do this in the context that the personal is political. Social and artist research involves active interviewing but how do we define active interviewing that incorporates the need for more reflection on the intersecting ways that reflexivity, power dynamics, and subjective positionality… Continue reading 1.4 Interviewing
Performance of Self
W5 (who, where, when, what, why). Listen to your interview several times over several days. Ask yourself: Why have I chosen to focus on these things and not others? What does this say about me and my performance of self (see Goffman’s ‘presentation of self’)? How might I present myself differently? Why might I wish… Continue reading Performance of Self