Tag: art
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On taking note in an world dominated by AI
The longer I work as a creative, the more I am convinced that all creativity lies in a keen sense of observation, and the good sense to take note. Creativity, I firmly believe, is a skill, not a talent, in contrast to the carefully perpetuated myth of the genius, artist, architect, and designer who are…
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Weaving Worlds: women who make I
I would describe myself as many things: artist, researcher, architect, teacher, dancer, swimmer, woman, and maker. These last two are things of complexity. To quote Patti Smith ‘As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don’t do that with men…
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Autumn: some reflections , and some books
It’s once again autumn here in Johannesburg. It’s also mid-semester break, which can sometimes be the only time I get in the year to make work more or less uninterrupted. These seven odd days have proved to be golden in the past years; I’ve gotten most of my productive work done in them for the…
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c o u n t
Some reflections on numbers 5240 words a visual representation – Despite changes to criteria publication to included creative practice outputs in the south African academic context. Both criteria for promotion and credibility of research to stem primarily from written form. The number of words in essays, or the number of times an paper has been…
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I’m thinking of becoming a Dadaist
do not be alarmed the bellow should be considered to be satire…see ‘The mutterings project’ for prior reference. One reaches a moment in ones life, where the future seems to stretch out into infinite dullness. filled with administration and management, of things and others- lackluster. No amount of incentive seems to, be enough to band-aid…
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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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…Before Breakfast
As in; as in ‘I can think of six impossible things…’ Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many…
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Why architects from Africa are not designing buildings, and what the West could learn.
A manifesto in one sentence. Any architect, taking seriously the effect of the built environment on climate change and the role of building construction materials in our rapidly heating world, must conclude that the moral responsibility for architects is to no longer consider making buildings as the primary project of the architectural profession, both now…
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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…