Friday 9 December 2011

Research Proposal part 2

The writing is going well, and I'm learning so much from the reading I've been doing.  The submission deadline for my research proposal is looming, and this is where I have got to:


Academic Aim: 

To employ the site of the *** Hospital to extend my practice through an exploration of the fluidity of space, place and time.

Objectives:


To use counter-cartographic practices to map the hospital site, including lost sites and to identify what unrecorded data can be discovered in this process.

To collect and codify examples of subversion or reformulation of the planned elements of the site by patients and staff.

To create memorials to social memories about the site which capture the quality of locus.

To identify and communicate the messages of economics, social policy and health policy that are both written into, and read from the site.  






Wednesday 23 November 2011

More reading ...

This is my next load of reading in preparation for writing my MA research proposal:

How modernity forgets. Paul Connerton
Art and architecture: a place between. Jane Rendell
The power of maps. Denis Wood
Space, place and gender. Doreen Massey
You are here: personal geographies and other maps of the imagination. Katherine Harmon
Places of memory. Karen E Till from A companion to political geography. Ed. John Agnew
Medieval world maps: embedded images, interpretive frames. Marcia Kupfer (Word and image. Vol 10, No 3

I'm still enjoying it!

Saturday 12 November 2011

Research proposal part 1 (of many I expect)

What is an MA by research?

Essentially it seems to mean that the first quarter of the time is spent writing your own curriculum.  But before the writing comes the reading, and am absolutely loving it! I have never had any art theory or cultural theory education so I thought this might be the hardest bit.  But so far it is completely fascinating to find out that other people have tussled with the same questions as me, and have come up with really good ideas.

This is a list of what I have been reading:

Place: a short introduction. Tim Cresswell
Place. Tacita Dean and Jeremy Millar
A guide to the new ruins of Britain. Owen Hatherley
Mapping the terrain: new genre public art. Suzanne Lacey
Of other spaces. Michel Foucault
The practice of everyday life (Ch 7 - Walking in the city). Michel de Certeau
Remaking the map. Carly Beswick (Art News Oct 2010)
The body electric: On Christian Nold. Tom Vanderbilt (Artforum International 2007, Vol 45 Iss 7)
Ghostly footsteps: voices memories and walks in the city. David Pinder (Ecumene 2001, Vol 8 Iss 1)

Every book opens my eyes to new ideas and new things to read, and supervisors have also been coming up with suggestions.

My plan is to continue reading until Christmas and then focus on writing my research proposal.