A stressful, blood pressure raising month in multiple ways...but still working, although not as focused as I’d like to have been. It has felt like being in a pot of boiling molasses.
Links to Studio/Making Blog posts since last month’s update, most recent to oldest:
Dissecting Double Portrait: Self and Petra Nimm
Under the Writing section I added the blog Misc Writing. All posts in this section were added since October 15 update. Here are direct links to each post, oldest to most recent:
Peter Schjeldahl on Agnes Martin
Notes: Rick Lowe, Julie Mehretu and Shahzia Sikander in Conversation
Other items of note:
Re-watched Ways of Seeing and Gerhard Richter, Painting on YouTube. Began watching the series Chance on Hulu.
Re-read the Preface, Lecture I and Lecture II of Richard Wollheim Painting as an Art.
Reading the Milton Avery catalogue text.
Attended Rick Lowe, Julie Mehretu and Shahzia Sikander in Conversation sponsored by the Painting Department at the Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] on November 10, 2016.
Had initial full committee meeting with Andrew Cooks [DoS] and Roberta Mock [2nd] via Skype on Tuesday, October 25, 2016. The agenda and additional notes were logged in grad book on Thursday, November 3, 2016 which was the first day I had access to it. I followed up with the suggestions both sent to me in the feedback/notes prior to the meeting.
I judged my first high school parliamentary debate tournament on October 29, 2016. I mention this here because it did make me think about how to structure an argument for or against something and then the live presentation of that argument. I will judge another debate in December.
November 1, 2016 I was finally enrolled and able to access my PU email account and set up automatic forward. Most importantly I was finally able to login and access the online resources of the library. Since then I have been playing catch up reading articles I’ve found through searches I’ve been waiting to do since Berlin. Two articles of significance for my thought process that I have accessed and worked my way through thus far:
Painting As Performance: Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater?
Claudia Barnett
The Drama Review, Volume 47, Number 1 (T 177), Spring 2003, pp. 97-126. Published by The MIT Press.
And
The Paintings of Carolee Schneemann
Maura Reilly
Feminist Studies 37, no. 3 (Fall 2011), pp. 620-648.
Aside from all of the above my main focus this month has been the next revision of my proposal for RDC1. I have sent the body of a revision to the MPhil/PhD crit group requesting feedback either in writing or during the Skype call we have scheduled on November 16.
It is my intention to revise the revision later this week and send on November 22 to Andrew and Roberta for their comments/feedback.