CoP2 Practical: Study Task 1: 10.10.14 for 31.10.14
Identify, by discovering, describing and recording, a theme / issue of meaning and relevance to you, drawing on one or more of the given themes and your Study Task 1 research (if appropriate): society, politics, history, culture and technology. Buy new sketchbooks in two different sizes, one should be small and always to hand with something to draw with.
Find a way to record your theme / issue in a way that interests you. Include observational drawing, but also use others ways of recording information. If it is hard to begin, then just begin somewhere... Significant subject matter is everywhere, everything you observe has a meaning attached. Look deeper, look closely, observe, record, interpret, re-interpret…
Produce a body of sketches / drawings / visual notes. Annotate your drawings, use notes or photographic records to record additional details. Research and draw, draw and research and think through your drawing.
Bring this work in development, to the CoP seminar on 24.10.14, then bring all work produced to the CoP practical session on 31.10.14. Aim to produce a minimum of 20 pages full of information – but this is a minimum guide amount as the approach to practice is highly individual.
The process is not defined, you may even become part of the project – but you are asked to go out on location to find your subject matter.
How to begin?
Identify a theme
Find a text or essay
Identify a relevant location
Eg: museum, shopping centre, train station, park, prison…
Draw discover, describe, record
Keep drawing, then draw some more…
References:
William Hogarth
Indian Plains ledgers
Andrew Parker
Robert Weaver
Paul Hogarth
Contemporary practitioners:
Sue Coe
Francis Alys
Joe Sacco: Palestine
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
Peter Arkle (Peter Arkle News)
Illustration as Visual Essay, School of Visual Arts, New York
UWE: Bristol: Reportager http://reportager.uwe.ac.uk
Tacita Dean, sea drawings…
Paul Davis
Photographic practitioners of interest:
Eugene Atget
August Sander
Martin Parr
Sophie Calle
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