- Troubling Artist: Doing gender as a framework for exploring the repetitive stylized acts of doing artist (still proof reading)
Dr Humphreys The above post was primarily written for VPA Art Histories under the influence of our ART 5364. Interestingly the case sample, Hesse imagery and quotes, I injected for correlating the project more directly with ART 5364 blog, looped back on enriching and reshaping the VPA paper. Lovely.
Hesse is a great case study I would like to follow through on. It would be worth devising a system of coding (qualitative) her writings relative to the notion of troubling, identity constitution, prolific and influential practice--locating instances expressive of identity stability/instability/restablizing in both being and doing, degrees of arousal, examples of regulating arousal in her texts. As well as a handful of other artists' texts. - Kathy 12/2015
Or if you are bored and want to read my process this semester--good luck.
Kathy - Your research is pretty compelling - the one that interested me the most was doing artist is as doing gender... I definitely think that being an artist - it calls us to be authentic with our self. Art is also the process that meets you where your at and helps you move forward that is why psychologist are incorporating it into use with patients, soldiers dealing with PTSD even my husband has tried to bring journaling into his practice when dealing with 16 year old girls that keep having mysterious ailments - which tests have proved normal. Journaling can help us connect the dots of where we stand with movements as well. You definitely took this to a whole new level and elevated my thought process!
ReplyDeletetotally agree with you Gail
DeleteI think that Kathy is one of the most authentic artists that I know. I like, again, Gail's use of that word.
ReplyDeleteBend Judd Kathy bend!
ha. thanks katharine. i am bent
DeleteKathy, Your quote from Eva Hesse is a great one.The excerpt I enjoyed the best:"But i feel so strongly that the only art is the art of the artist personally and found art as much a possible for himself and by himself."It is such a shame that she died so young.Nancy Graves is another.Your troublings on creativity and self destruction are also interesting: "Change is good,necessary and inevitable" quote by Shire.I feel that I may write a book called "The Teaching History of David Harmon",ha,ha.I didn't count on 10 positions for my teaching career path! However,I am grateful for my nomadic existence.It has changed my art and life for the best. Perspective comes to mind, but also contemplation.Personal Art production doesn't get accomplished by a static existence(stasis vs. kinesis).It is through the experimentation and fluidity.In the 1970's part of my search for meaning in art and life was via Taoism.I had read some writings by Lao-Tzu.I read these while working for the NPS in Mt. Rainier.Watching mountain water flow amid st the rock was revelatory to me.The stones are very solid and static.The water was free to course around the impediments it confronted.I have tried to live this way, but it is getting increasing difficult in this in your face world which attempts to rob us of contemplation.Artists really require this strange phenomenon !
ReplyDeleteOn more than one occasion in your many links, you discuss the idea of transgender and the complexities of dealing with the binary nature of gender. The specific moment that caught my attention was the following: "...the complexities that might be incurred when the transgendered individual who not only navigates the undoing of categorical binaries of gender..."
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I were having a discussion about how everything changes quickly in relationships to new ideas, specifically gender roles. We were laughing and joking about ways that our daughter might try to rebel, as it is necessary that teenagers try to rebel to separate themselves from their parents as individuals. We were trying to understand how she would do that, and joked that by the time she hit puberty, everyone would probably be accepting of bisexuality and homosexuality. How will my peers as parents be restrictive or bigoted to our children's' generation? I wonder again if at some point we can't just erase the notion of the binary divisions of gender. Then will a term like transgender be necessary? If gender can be open and fluid, then could one ever be born in a gender they find disagreeable? How do you disagree with something that has no restrictions? Just this morning there was an editorial in the Dallas Morning News that talked about how men must and are adjusting to the new roles of women as professionals/mothers, especially as highly paid labor jobs that were traditionally male loose earning power, and women end up being the major breadwinners of the household. If I have a son, he will probably have no expectation that a woman be anything in particular, or maybe he'll expect a woman to be well educated and professionally successful, like his mother. Who knows.
Oh man Kathy, your work is very Hesse like. I think however, unlike Hesse, your persoal readability comes across more readily.
ReplyDeletethat is a hughmongous compliment. thanks katharine.
DeleteInteresting stuff Kathy, I also liked the quote from Hesse as well as your discussion on text making and art. Language, expression, etc. comes in many forms and having that translate can be a challenge and blessing. I think writing and art are similar, it's a process.
ReplyDeleteWow, Kathy! This is fantastic! I went through each link and enjoyed them immensely. Thanks for sharing so many wonderful contributions in the course.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dr. Humphreys :)
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