{"id":3193,"date":"2016-02-21T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2016-02-22T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:51:49","slug":"re-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2016\/02\/21\/re-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Re: Making<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>L4 Gallery, Southampton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>13 February to 8 March, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018\u2026what of the artists, the makers, how do they make decisions? \u2026now an artist is as likely to atomise or extrude or draw, print, wear or perform with objects as part of an adaptable practice. And since art has been transformed into aesthetic communication it is no longer traditions but messages that count\u2026\u2019\u00a0&#8211; Ian Dawson,\u00a0<em>Making Contemporary Sculpture<\/em>, 2012, p.9<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don&#8217;t think it makes sense to untangle the picture (as material) from the image (as immaterial). [\u2026] Somehow we get snagged by a desire, an <em>objet petit \u2018an\u2019<\/em>, to theorise the image as a singularity, rather than reimagining and enacting theory around its multiplicity.\u2019\u00a0&#8211; Sunil Manghani, &#8216;Images: An Imaginary Problem&#8217;, 2011, p.228.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This exhibition documents three PhD seminars that each ran between 2-3 days\u00a0at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Underlying <em>Re:Making<\/em>\u00a0is a consideration of what it means to make and re-make ideas, objects and processes. Each\u00a0seminar\u00a0centred around\u00a0key prompts or challenges for collaborative engagement, but without necessarily stipulating required outcomes. Instead the sessions were\u00a0intended as a open spaces to explore and experiment. Working together we can observe and draw upon the range of decisions we each seem to make intuitively as we approach the \u2018research\u2019 in hand.\u00a0In part\u00a0a response to Ian Dawson\u2019s suggestion from a previous\u00a0seminar, the aim was to work together, and <em>intensively<\/em>, to question what it is we do and think when making, writing and researching.\u00a0Taken as a whole,\u00a0<em>Re: Making<\/em> asserts we might need to make before we think as much as we think before we make.<\/p>\n<p>Prompts were provided to explore different modalities of making as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2015\/11\/20\/re-making-and-exhibition\/\">Reading Room<\/a><\/em> was the re-creation of an exhibition of artists\u2019 books that had originally shown in India. The artworks were brought into dialogue with the School\u2019s own collection so reframing and re-tracing thoughts, beliefs and emotions within the boundaries of a book and the cultures in which they circulate. In this case a 3-day seminar ran between Wednesday 28 and Friday 30\u00a0October 2015, with the Private View of the\u00a0exhibition held in the evening of the final day. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2015\/11\/20\/re-making-and-exhibition\/\">See more&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2016\/02\/22\/plastic-surgery\/\">Plastic Surgery<\/a> <\/em>(held on\u00a0Tuesday 10 and\u00a0Wednesday 11 November 2015) took two icons of \u2018plastic pop\u2019, Michael Jackson and Kylie Minogue, as \u2018models\u2019 to explore simultaneously both physical 3D rendering processes and conceptual understandings of plasticity as evoked by the fine arts and cultural critique. Taken together, <em>Re: Making<\/em> asserts we might need to make before we think as much as we think before we make. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2016\/02\/22\/plastic-surgery\/\">See more&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2016\/02\/22\/writing-as-making\/\">Writing as Making<\/a><\/em> was a study retreat for dedicated time to write, to share in the act of writing, and to reflect critically on various strategies. The seminar was held on\u00a0Wednesday 9 and\u00a0Thursday 10 December 2015.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>One outcome was a re-making of Walter Benajmin\u2019s \u2018The Writer\u2019s Technique in Thirteen Theses\u2019, which quickly reveals writing as practice, as a working and re-working of texts in pursuit of new thoughts, images and confluences. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2016\/02\/22\/writing-as-making\/\">See more&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of related interest, see also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2015\/11\/19\/drawing-together\/\">Drawing Together<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 &#8211; a\u00a0participatory outdoor drawing event, co-orangised by Cheng-Chu Weng and Sunil Manghani. The event was held on\u00a0Saturday 17 October 2015,\u00a011am \u2013 1pm at the Discovery Centre, in Winchester and was part of the wider programming for\u00a010 Days, Winchester\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0biennial, interdisciplinary, arts festival.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Through the medium of chalk and shadows <em>Drawing Together<\/em> sought to bring people together in a shared act of drawing. Visitors to the Discovery Centre were\u00a0invited to draw together as a means to draw each other\u00a0together if only fleetingly, just as our shadows are mere fleeting images of ourselves.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2015\/11\/19\/drawing-together\/\">See More\u2026<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2014\/01\/26\/practices-of-research\/\">Practices of Research<\/a> &#8211; as a precursor to the Re: Making seminars, a collaborative\u00a0exhibition,\u00a0<em>Image-Text-Object: Practices of Research<\/em>, was held at the L4 Gallery in early 2014. The exhibition presented the work of 16 PhD students and two members of staff from Winchester School of Art (WSA). Taken together the works offered a series of images, texts and objects, helping to think about different ways of seeing, thinking, writing and making. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2014\/01\/26\/practices-of-research\/\">See More&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: Making L4 Gallery, Southampton 13 February to 8 March, 2016 \u2018\u2026what of the artists, the makers, how do they make decisions? \u2026now an artist is as likely to atomise or extrude or draw, print, wear or perform with objects as part of an adaptable practice. And since art has been transformed into aesthetic communication &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2016\/02\/21\/re-making\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Re: Making&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93777,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,65470,712515,712513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibition","category-re-making","category-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}