Tag: artsreasearch
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Weaving worlds II – what women make
Weaving worlds II I once calculated that the distance in wool my grandmother had knitted throughout her lifetime, 94 years, 3 months and 21 days, was roughly equivalent to the earth’s circumference, 40 075km. I have estimated that the weight of the stone I have shifted throughout my PhD is approximately 9,8 tons[1]. I have…
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The most liberating idea in creative practice
Your work doesn’t matter. Yes you heard that right. It has recently occurred to me, that my work doesn’t matter. I’m unlikely to change the course of history by making art that counters issues of the Anthropocene. Mostly the people I work with have no interest in my work at all not beyond a citation…
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Artwork and idea in proccess – weaving with carrier bags
Since my primary aim here, is to make a case for practice, and proccess as research method. Laboratory for those hard scientist among you. I though I would share, a recent presentation and workshop I gave in Helsinki, as part of the, °City is sound, city is quicksand° event at Hietsu pavilion! Hosted by the…
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Gathering, a carrier bag theory of art making
What have I been up to recently? Are you wondering? In the post-doctoral land, in the way that I work, I suppose I’m in a gathering phase, something about weathering, the weather, and breathing in this altered atmosphere. They may seem to be somewhat unrelated things. Nevertheless, in the turn of my mind, they are…
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Terraforming Johannesburg
For a while now, those of you who know Johannesburg well may know that most of the mine tailings along the Witwatersrand mining belt have been quietly disappearing. We are observing a significant change in the terrain of Johannesburg as it has existed for the past 100 years. The mining stip has long represented a…
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About creative practice research, thinking with things (Part 1)
What does it mean to think with things? To entwine one’s mind with the more than human entities that dwell within vital terrains, urban or otherwise? To use a commonly accepted definition of creative research, Christopher Frailing, in his paper on research in art and design, suggests that for an activity to count in either…
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How do you journal? (for real people?)
I have a confession to make… Although I own a copy, I have never read Julia Cameron’s ‘The Artist Way’. I’ve tried to read War and Peace; I’ve read The Brothers Karamazov. I’ve read, Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze’s‘ A Thousand Plateaus’,1 But for my life, I cannot get past the introduction. Kate on Good…
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Process
A few reflections on my process of working, in Cyanotype and refection on cultivating creativity.
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Breath in the extractive zone
Some visual reflections, on the post-extractivist landscapes and legacies conference, I attended in Dublin in July.
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Encounter:
revised, presentation – UCD humanities institute: post-extractivist landscapes and legacies conference, July 2023. Encounter : addressing critical materialises in post-extractive urban terrains through rubbling – Draft paper
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Material Matters
Fasler Galley Wits School of Architecture March-June 2023 This exhibition showcases the work by the staff of the Architecture Program Although the work was not created with a particular theme in mind, the bringing together of artifacts condensates an interest in materiality. A compulsion to explore the limits and potentialities of architectural materials, glass, steel,…
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‘Snow Studies’ mattering with Helsinki’s urban terrains
In December of 2022, Zen Marie, Alex Arteaga and myself, we asked to convene, a creative workshop as part of the Kuva research days 2022, entitled the ‘City as Space of Rules and Dreaming’ a project funded by the Kone foundation. You can read more about it here. We proposed to present a series of…
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The body matters – ARA 2020 – Presentation
Making the body and materials present in post-extractive urban terrains in response to issues of the Anthropocene through speculative and performative practices Brigitta Stone-Johnson The University of the Witwatersrand, school of architecture and planning 2025 – Peer Reviewed Publication on wired space wits As a city founded on Gold mining in the 1890s, as we…
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Mapping Extractive Histories – 2022
Mapping Extractive HistoriesInstallation by Brigitta Stone-Johnson and Chloë Shain While the term “Anthropocene” attempts to define our current environmental moment as a product of human impact on the environment and on the climate, this project challenges the universal humanism implied in this term. Grappling with the politics of the Anthropocene grounded in Kathryn Yussoff’s A…
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Making Odd Kin – 2022
Gathering Oddkin, Nirox Foundation winter sculpture fair – Good Neighbors 7may-31 August 2022 BRIGITTA STONE-JOHNSON SOUTH AFRICA Gathering oddkin, 2022 Over the last two hundred years, humans have moved from beings that affect their immediate dwelling places to epoch-altering geo-writers. Since the industrial age, we have acted as if non-living things had neither life nor…