Chloe Turner and Esther McManus
Notes from today’s presentations, gallery visit and symposium:
• Esther made me realize that publication is more than a media, the choices I make with stock, colour, the materiality is in itself a form of craft. Could my Positions through iterating response include an archive or share this kind of curation? Renewed my interest in publications. I am yet to make one this year but it’s on my list! Eager access publications workshop.
• “What can you learn from the materiality?”
Iterating sheds light on things, experimentation in practice develops questions.
• Asked Esther when she became comfortable with the unfolding nature of practice, I feel like I’m just turning the corner now.
• Very interested in her layering approach with content and her cross year studio.
• Discussed with Esther and Chloe authenticity and honour in working with natural and how you present it, needs to be true to the content, the audience. Another example of co-design.
• MESEUM OF TRANSOLOGY exhibition was amazing. First I was taken in by the personal side of it, particularly the trans kid section. I was immediately it by how unprepared or uneducated my kids are on Trans rights and the Trans community, as am I. The placard ‘STR8 CIS MEN NEED THERAPY NOT US’ hit particularly.
• In ever-changing landscape of Trans debate, archiving “returns us to the object”.
• Concept of archive material being lent out, placards back into a protest and used like a library book being loaned, adding to its life.
• Archiving as protest?