a busy week of
teaching with the deadline for planning on the Goldlay Sq commission mixed in. family
history- book as performance- documentation as document - importance of text -
private public spaces- representing the everyday - artist as detective -
distorting language - learning from failure - concepts of collection -
collection as material - using book to frame the world - slow reading - ciphers
and codes - text/textile - making landscapes - landscape of identity -
repurpose wellbeing - graphic inclusivity - notions of truths - book as
architecture - material matters - systems to cope - knowing not knowing. these
are my notes from the first symposium on the Book Art Course at Camberwell -
it's always a great day of sharing where the room swirls with possibilities and
the past is used as a starting point for new possibilities. This year at the
symposium it was particularly beautiful
to see that the course had been so beneficial to the first years who also
present their practice, their presentations were full of examples where they
had taken opportunities and made the best of them - excellent the course is
only as good as its students and this course is excellent. some talk of
reflective thinking and lots of individual tutorials at NUA. managed to get
year 1 out on a day trip which took in the broads and the excellent museum that
is Time and Tide in Great Yarmouth.
