Present:
Libby (LW)
Finn (FA)
Jess (JF)
Jim (JH)
Absent:
Tekla (TW)
1. Revised notes handed out with timetable
2. ALL / Agree that there will be a rotation of roles in Minute taking and Chairing the meeting
3. JH: Symposium Format discussion. JH goes through list on timetable (date 30th January) what areas we are aiming to cover
4. ALL- Brainstorm via post-it notes as per project management > taskboard > see wall with ‘post its’ on
5. JF / Role of ‘us’ in the symposium – i.e. are we going to present or are we going to focus on the speakers and our role being a ‘chair’ or ‘respondent. – Role as creating dialogue.
6. JH / The definition of ‘symposium’ – how does music and drinks at another location sound?
7. FA / Flexibility on time/location
8. ALL / looking at how the standard postgraduate program fits into our subject outline.
9. JF / urgent is a) can we have one of the PG Forum dates and b) what are the restrictions on the venue / funding / date etc First step being claiming PG session.
10. FA / Are we restricted to that date. JH notes that the date specified is to fit in with the bigger picture of the session and to ensure we have enough time, so it would be best to try and fit as close to this as possible.
ALL / starting to go through the post it notes and moving them around and prioritising them. Suggestions of Christine Borland and Ross BIrrell
11. JH notes that its interesting that we have gravitated towards concept then speaker rather than speaker determining concept
12. Is artist/researcher a potential theme?
13. JH speaks about Lapland / artist researcher term and a general awareness
14. Outcomes – can the ambiguity of this term drive an outcome such as a publication that discusses it.
15. FA/ suggests that it would be a good opportunity for everyone to suggest a speaker inline with their discipline
16. FA questions JH about whether he still sees himself as an artist researcher
17. FA what is the relationship of a ‘gesture’ and ‘theory’
18. LW says role of research in the practice. This is a different factor and has a different definition between everyone.
19. ALL general idea of ‘justifying and explaining’ being difficult in the process of practice.
20. Topic of artist / researcher is a timely theme based on our course content.
21. JH suggests talking / having Sue as one of the Speakers. Visual Arts Project located on King St in Glasgow Re: Artists located in an institution because there was someone in there that they wanted to work with > does Sue have a booklet n this - strategy, choosing an institution and finding an artists who has an appropriate methodology and teasing out particular research interests together. Tom Lawson > Dean of Arts in Cal Arts interesting project in relation to Scottish Parliament.
22. FA / thinking about the curation of such a project.
23. JF / Suggest maybe Katrina Browne from a different perspective. Organisations that facilitate that happening.
24. How doe curators use research I their ‘practice’ i.e. that as a practice of curating. Broadening the terminology and focus…
25. JH says consider Transmission curating method and Street Level photography gallery. JH can introduce to Malcolm if necessary. Sue to Katrina etc
26. FA / what’s the gap in the Objectives vs the actual class timetable in relation to the whole Excavation of the contemporary art context. Can we get someone from a place like Transmission to give us a crash course in the basics?
27. JH/ Sarah Lowndes: Is this a potential speaker towards this topic area based on the book that’s listed on the reading list.
28. JH / alternatively can we have half hour sessions with Transmission / street level in one of our spare sessions for the year?
29. FA this being a class session rather than as part of the forum.?
30. JH do we want the theme of excavation to be a focus of our forum or separate?
31. JH Toby Webster / Modern Institute – gives background on the setting up, and split etc
32. Arts infrastructure or artist researcher ? one as a fallback session? The interview session may suggest a Symposium topic that cannot be ignored!
33. JH is there a specific subject matter that is important? i.e. food – if our overarching theme is research in practice maybe this will dominate. Jackie Donaghie > food , communal table experience
34. Everyone gives KB a rap! LW notes its important that the speakers are relevant to the greater school
35. JH raises thought of House for an Art Lover
36. JF suggest Anthony Schraag due to his GOMA exhibition, and what Irit spoke about in Transformation Design
37. JH / John Calcott (?) curation focus, based in school and running a department? Smithson film
38. JH work with historical and current practitioners and the dialogue that generates between them…
39. FA what the invite will look like, how the draft will be done… we have until the 20.02.08 inline with the project timetable.
40. JH no entry to Transmission, consider Saucha (?) Dallas and Market Gallery. There are others…..
41. JH/The idea of an un/de-regulated space, Ross Sinclair T-shirt shop…2 for the price of one….
42. JH/Malcolm - Slightly more gallery based now but did have a background of exhibiting in non-gallery base.
43. JH/Intermedia on King Street, Market could be interesting to speak with.
44. JH Dundee – artist run initiatives, pay expenses of travel but JH knows artist groups that could be drawn on – dynamic.
45. JH possibility to divide up sessions on two main themes across days. Could we have one of the classes as a forum and open it up to others? Tow on one day, tow on another? JH says for him to devise a scheme to mark fairly.
46. ALL agree maybe wait for Tekla. JH says no decisions need to be made yet
47. JH says remember hat the forum can take a variety of formats. i.e. is it just performance, is it an introduction and then video? Is it four seminars separately?
48. ALL / sent email to L.Beattie requesting Postgraduate Forum Session.
49. Depending on her response we will discuss actions next week. Two strands at moment, mull over strands we feel are most important. Be pragmatic about the scope and keep in mind its 25% of the total.
