Oral Presentation feedback - takeaways

Oral Presentation take-aways

Exploring the problem of How to Make a Painting.

Painting under question, not as unified composition, but an assortment of additions and removals through: Staining, stenciling, stitching, bleaching and marking.

A process revealing itself through METHODOLOGIES of making and unmaking.

Crossing out or cancelling motive as a marker or sign in the negative was [abstractly] conceived as a fissure.

CONCEPT - Fissure = reveal humanity in its messy, untidy, ordinary lived experience.

·      need to develop this concept and ground in its definitions of cracks in something or clefts in body.

How can FISSURE as a concept become operational?

·      Could you split, open, crack as part of the process??

NOTION of palimpsest (contrasted with Tabula rasa) - has been useful. Could be developed by understanding this work as rethinking a type of abstract painting – away from Modernist role = clean slate.

Akel’s work – ideas around work and labour in relation to women and art – explore in essay. - HELEN MOLESWORTH essay.

Mehretu – verbs for painting – underlining my own processes and methodologies. CREATE MY OWN LIST.

Making and Unmaking motivating work nicely connected with narrative structures and deconstructions of mythological traditions.

THEMES relating to Penelope – tenuous and unexplored atm.

Narratives of gods and heroes as bolstered exemplars of human fragility and mess – fit perfectly with Painting as Palimpsest and commenting on the contemporary experiences of a woman.

DEVELOP – mythological narrative and feminist position in essay. Ie: Penelope and the reworking of myth that debates patriarchal systems?