Full Group Meeting - 18/03/14

Further introductions to the following themes:

• Chance - the book is a compilation different writings that is useful to dip into occasionally to ground yourself in the theme or to look for further sources, ideas, etc. Intention, consequence, spontaneous, accident - observing the gap between intention and consequence. There's always an element of chance in every piece of art you make. Chance is not a new device - why, in which case, is chance still a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world?
  Artists: Vito Acconci, Susan Laxton
• Memory - it's important to consider these questions: how do we define memory? What is memory? How does it relate to us now? How does it dictate what we do and know? How do we capture and craft memory? How do memories exist? Memories are sometimes translucent and the exploration of them is complex. Possible lines of investigation - photo albums. They are windows for you to look into the unobtainable past. It's an iconic symbol of recording and thus, memory, and is charged with sentimental significance. Images on a laptop or phone screen are as vague and intangible as the memory itself, whereas an actual photograph is physical evidence of the past in itself, without even yet considering what it is a photograph of.
  Artists: Chiharu Shiota - Room of Memory, Uta Barth, Michel Rovner, Hiroshi Sugimoto, John Blackmore
  Books: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks (already own), The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard.