Well a full-on two days so far this week – finalising
timetables at NUA for the textiles design course – building on our previous experience and introducing current themes as ever - its going to be a full year! Then delivering on-line a
briefing session for a module that I’m running for the OCA. It has its focus in
testing boundaries by considering audiences and the spaces where the work that
we make is made public. Off to London and symposium 1 at Camberwell, the new cohort
of Book Art students is eclectic and wonderful – my notes of the session
include – looking at things I didn't understand – failure is wonderful – unconscious
recollection – the invisible in books – the choice we made to know something – ritual
as transformative – codes for communication – house as a container – book as
opera – information is beautiful – visible and invisible graphics – what does
reading look like? – thinking smoothly – recognising the whole life of an
object – using photographs rather than taking them – there is something there
but I'm not sure what it is.
Then off to Tate Modern – the Malevich show is quite
breathtaking in a cerebral thinking way – the room of works on paper mapping
his developments over a number of crucial years is incisive, outlining the
importance of drawing as a tool for thinking – the recreation of the seminal supremacist
exhibition is marvellous, to be in the presence of work after being enamoured by
the images for so long was quite moving but the real gem was the ‘education’
room where Malevich’s theories on painting and the relationship between colour
and music is laid out on huge charts. If you are interested in art and
education you have to see this work. http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern
