On Sunday, July 17th, we held the first virtual meeting for the MFA 22 Cohort. Susie Quillinan, the director lead the event.

Each member of the cohort introduced themselves and their research and artistic practice. There is a wide variety in mediums and artistic practices.

Quotes

"practice is what grants us our authority, deepening our practice through the use of theory"

"you know things through doing."

Quick Notes:

Susie's primary practice is curatorial

Phadar - Dreams From Exile/political and spiritual intersections between Israel and Palestine

Ann, painter, Seattle, Analog Color in A Post Digital World - exploring color as a tool of community building through a zine.

Heidi, experimental, Canada

Renee - activate spaces using history to participate/ facilitate / watch

Vanessa Lustig - how can you reap the benefits of nature without being in nature.

Sophia - embodied practice / somatics / as a being on Abewaki land

Caden - Queer Strategy of Embodiedment

Renee - Painter/ Comparative analysis of dreams Freudian vs Renee's ability

Crit Groups

We will be divided into smaller groups: two groups of four, one group of three.

We must meet once a month to give and receive feedback. A part of the feedback practice is to indicate what level and type of feedback you expect and are open to receiving.

The work must be shared by Wednesday. Feedback is expected by Sunday.

Research Clusters

Look into research clusters to participate in:

RESEARCH CLUSTER #22: ARTISTIC CITIZENSHIP:THE ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND SOCIAL,CIVIC, POLITICAL, AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

3RD FRIDAY OF THE MONTH @16:00 UTC (ZOOM LINK)

PROPOSED AND LED BY ANDREW FREIBAND, ERIN WILKERSON, JAKE TKACZYK, TINE FRICH MOLLER, KAREN AMI, MARIE FRANCE FORCIER, NANCY MESSEGEE, EVE CHARTRAND

Discussion Groups

Sharing reflections, ideas and thoughts on Praxis and methodology development and how to approach methodology (syntethizing literature) with regard to praxis based PhDs. challenges everyone is facing in their work with regard to how we conceptualise and frame our research down to the nuts and bolts of things.

Proposed by Tine Frich Moller, Tine Frich Moller, Karen Ami

Look into Film Critique group

Notes

Entangled state of practice - many practices and experiences, traditional and outsider formats, the multiplicity of of the dynamics....

genealogy of your practice?

:::read:::

imagined futures: fictional expectations and capitalist dynamics - jens beckert

homo prospectus - martin p. seligman

the system of objects - jean baudrillard

:::watch:::

The Seasons in Quincy, 2016, Prolific artist, philosopher, writer, storyteller and "radical humanist" John Berger is the focus of this vivid four-part cinematic portrait. In 1973, he moved from urban London to the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. THE SEASONS IN QUINCY: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER examines different aspects of Berger's life in this remote village in the Alps.

08/09/2022

::: LOOK:::

Arthur Jafa - Found Images / Compilation of images / Curation practices

Simone Leigh - Sovereignty

https://www.icaboston.org/simone-leigh-sovereignty

https://simoneleighvenice2022.org/sovereignty/

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/simone-leigh-sovereign-territory-venice-biennale-1234627520/

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/05/simone-leigh-sovereignty/

Barbara Kruger - advertising imagery

:::READ:::

Glitch Feminism - Legacy Russell

Photography and Belief - David Levi Strauss

:::QUESTIONS:::

is democracy sustainability ?

internet culture - social media: how people relate and communicate

memes as tool of communication

alex jones - mainstreaming of disinformation

:::IMPORTANT PIECES:::

IMPACT ASSESSMENT PLAN

ARTIST STATEMENT