Pauses - Inventory of Behaviours

Kidd, N, Dunseath, J, Addison, J and Large, K (2024) Pauses - Inventory of Behaviours. In: Doing Together 2024, 4 - 5 April 2024, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK.

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Abstract

Inventory of Behaviours (IOB) is an evolving artwork consisting of instructions written by artists that detail how to reproduce their behaviours in the studio. Preliminary research through IOB has revealed that artists’ encounters with matter, with concepts, with process (production) are frequently prefaced, punctuated and concluded by apparently unrelated and often habitual activity (peripheral). External factors such as financial imperatives, domestic responsibilities and physical and mental wellbeing are influential in the formation of these. It is common for artists to engage in preparatory, and sometimes diversionary, activities that directly inform the creative processes of art-making. These comprise a broad range of types, which can be found in multiple individuals and, therefore, categorised. However, despite their universality and pervasiveness, such peripheral activities, behaviours and habits within cultural production have been largely ignored in pedagogy and by scholarly research as the subject of systematic investigation. IOB is predicated on the idea that there are currently overlooked opportunities that can be afforded by looking more carefully at artistic processes and that a wider examination of these could be of value, not just to artists and related disciplines but beyond. A better understanding of the real contemporary activities of artists and the imperatives that shape them has the potential to inform new and current narratives around artistic creativity, how it can be taught, applied, who can do it and what the benefits are to society more broadly, for instance in respect of health and wellbeing, equality and diversity, employment, and education. For Doing Together 2024, IOB introduced x3 spaces to PAUSE. IOB invited participants to use materials and autotelic actions to reflect on and share their own periphery behaviours.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Other)
UN SDGs:	Goal 4: Quality Education
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Divisions:	Bath School of Art, Film and Media
Research Centres and Groups:	Art Research Centre
Related URLs:	https://materialpedagogyfuture.net/
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2024 10:05
Last Modified:	08 Oct 2024 10:05
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16349

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