Dunseath, J, Kidd, N, Addison, J, Large, K and Quiafe, M (2024) Inventory of Behaviours - What conditions (cultural, sociological, economic, political) shape artists’ behaviours, and how can they help us to rethink the ways in which we work, teach, and learn? In: BSU Research Festival 2024, 5 June 2024, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK.
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Abstract
What conditions (cultural, sociological, economic, political) shape artists’ behaviours, and how can they help us to rethink the ways in which we work, teach and learn? IOB was initiated in 2017 to investigate the largely unseen and undiscussed behaviours, embodied tacit knowledge, that surround the making of art. The lead artists of this evolving artwork collected over 400 artists' instructions that document the behaviours, preparations, patterns, neuroses, and procrastinations of artists when they are not actively creating. These behaviours have formed the basis for a series of events in which art students and members of the public have enacted these behaviours in a gallery setting (Tate Modern). Artists and expert witnesses from a range of disciplines, including ethnography, physics, and neuroscience, observed events as they unfolded and interviewed participants, presenting their findings during closing debrief seminars. IOB research has illuminated the fundamental need artists have to engage in peripheral behaviours – to pause, to linger, to look away – as a means of maintaining their creative resources and their capacity to make art. Employing practice-led research methods, the project team asks how these behaviours, that are so crucial to artists’ continued creativity and wellbeing, might be of benefit to others. This project sits under MPF: An international network of transdisciplinary, practice-based researchers dedicated to querying our positions and agencies as artist-teachers.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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| Note: | Poster representing Inventory of Behaviours (IoB) research for the Material:Pedagogy:Future Research Group at the Bath Spa University Research Festival, Bath. Poster designed by Jessie Hall. |
| UN SDGs: | Goal 4: Quality Education |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2024 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2024 10:31 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16352 |
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