MAKT

Welcome. This is the blog for the Artistic Pedagogical Research Project Language for artistic process.

The project ran from october 2010 to february 2012

Participants: Nike Nilsson, Anna Carlson, Mattias Gunnarsson

Tutor: Katti Lundh

The project was formulated and set up from a wish to better understand what was most important and crucial in the artistic projects of the students attending the Teachers Training Program in Visual Art (BVK) at HDK / Gotenburg University.

As teachers / tutors we have ofcourse taken part of student projects thru discussions and reading blogs but in this project we aimed to get a closer dialog thru experiencing a similar project structure as the students at BVK.

As artist we have our own different methods, expressions and questions we work with. In this collaborative project we aimed to enter a framework more similar to our students projects as possible.

This means that we all worked from the same point of departure, a theme, we regulary met for group tutoring, we kept blogs where we write about the process and we finished it with an exhibition with an invited guest critic.

When the theme is set for students projecs we work with concepts that are open for interpretation yet relevant for the profession as a teacher for example Conflict or Identity

For us, we chose Power as the entry point.

What became clear for us all when working with text in tight paralel to the visual artistic process was that it really helped the work to grow.

Putting words to ones own process, communicating it to one self and others gives a better understanding to what is actually happening in the work. It makes it easier to talk about the work, and in the dialogue the work have the potential to grow even more.

Sharing the process becomes crucial.

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To the right are our project blogs; Nike Anna Mattias

And here are our slides from the presentation + the film.