Writing_Making (2015-2019) [multi-component output with contextualising information]
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3374
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Marsden Woo Gallery, London, England; Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon; and other locations. Publications including an Artist's Book.
- Brief description of type
- Exhibition of two cup objects shown with two image-texts; exhibition of Three jug objects and six image-texts; 30-image loop produced for multi-screen display; Artist's book; and visual poem. Also contains contextualising information.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
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- Year
- 2015
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.5009186
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Writing_Making contains three projects, produced between March 2015 and Spring 2019, that explore relationships between language and making: A Cup is a, A Game of JUG, and concerning roundabouts.
The research is grounded in Wilson’s thirty-year involvement with the discipline of ceramics and proceeds from two propositions developed through practice-based research: that skilled making, or craft, is a particularly intimate engagement between body, space and material; and that the process of making opens up modes of thought that are not otherwise accessible. Making is explored as a nexus of the complex relationships between thinking, doing and communicating.
The ongoing research ‘problem’ lies in voicing this intimacy and locating texts in a field that suffers from a lack of critical makers’ writing. How might language open up the engagement to both maker and audience? How might engagement generate language?
The portfolio brings together two group exhibitions, a symposium presentation, a moving image piece and an artist’s book. Each of these projects employs a multimodal, interdisciplinary methodology. The methods can, broadly, be grouped into two categories:
1. Writing in: text, or language, as a tool for, a material in, or somehow as an element of, the making process.
2. Writing out: making exercises as methods for generating language, or text; as methods for giving voice to things.
These methods are brought to bear on opportunities that emerge out of professional practice, or academic contexts. This flexibility is a key element of a methodological approach that treats practice as research and research as practice. Exploring the potential of making as a means of generating writing and the potential of writing to generate, or to contaminate, making, the methodology brings writing closer to making and generates theory from practice.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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