dear all
sorry for hoping for more discussion time,
Liam, could you tell us a little more about your making process in regard to your ideas on "organic developmental process", involving labor and
participants, and how to avoid pressure on outcome
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in the discussion at hand, is the outcome driven methodologies of those who are both commissioning and funding creative endeavors. In all of the projects that I have been involved in, there is an overwhelming inference placed upon final, deliverable product with little or no interest or value placed upon processes or the development"
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It seems that in the brief discussion between Danny and me, regarding "Thinking with the Body", and also I suppose in regard to (overwhelming spread!) various projects that Irini mentioned (fostered by her programming at V&A and Watermans), this may not be entirely true, and that some curating indeed focuses on process and development, and other "values," as I tried to point out in mentioning Ralph Lemon's series at MoMA.
Liam's point about the pressures of the industry is well taken, however, and here he is raising questions about precarity, and the lack of jobs or opportunities to survive creatively independently, something absolutely scary for most graduating in the performing arts.
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This pressure, for early stage identification of end product, is also at odds with a more the much more organic developmental processes that are form part of the core methodologies of fine art and design higher education. Meaning that many graduates are poorly equipped to engage with creative/tec industries that are perusing a marketable, commercially realised concept.
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After Liam, Simon Bowen came on and spoke about Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy
and 'digital making projects, with academic and creative/cultural industry partners" - but I could not really understand what it is that is digitally made
and (earlier point in the discussion) who sets the agendas for collaborative learning and what is learnt? What is brokerage?
You speak of a "mismatch", Simon, and that made me smile.("mismatch in terms of the pace of academic and industrial life (academia tending to be slower and more reflective/abstract, whereas industry tending to be quicker and more action-oriented and specific). This can be problematic in brokering and running such collaborations")
Come and visit us some time, in our lab, our pace is very fast and we have to reflect on the fly....
regards
Johannes Birringer
dap-lab
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap
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