Monday:
I went to assist an artist for some street shooting. It is a great chance to dig deep into art by working with artists. And here are some street photos I took:
Tuesday:
Our course leader introduced us the dragon den and hotroom, and course tutor shared with us the knowledge of time management and project management, I find the form she invited us to fill in very useful and I kept a blank one to pin it on my pinboard so I can use sticky notes to manage my time every week. I also did a test on which learner I am and it turns out I am actually quite balanced. She also introduced us the 5Ps: Prioritise, Plan, Productivity, Proactive and Personal, which made me reflect on the thinking of adjusting a way of blogging to make myself work like myself, but I am still figuring it out. And we are also invited to complete these 3 tasks:
- Draft plan/design of your project management strategy
- Draft timeline with your goals/milestones mapped out over the Summer Independent Study Period
- Update your blogs with your reflections/thoughts on the session
As I already shared with my reflections on the session, I will attach my draft of project management strategy and timeline of my indepent study at the very below.
To immerse myself into art, after class, I went to see BA Fashion Communication Show:
Wednesday:
This group’s speakers debate is so welcoming that everyone was keeping asking questions, and I am so encouraged to be bold by their story.
During the break, I went to watch BA Fashion Show
Thursday:
We had online tutorial. And my tutor suggested me to think about the following questions / tasks:
1 What is my definition of performance art?
2 What is the skills that classifies a performance artist? Which part I want to explore？
3 Do a bit more research!
Friday:
I went to UAL art business society exhibition 2024 to support my friend’s first exhibition. By doing that I also approached art.
Saturday:
I explored my body movement through a Queer Salsa workshop.
Sunday:
A chill day to sleep and walking around London. At night write this blog.
General:
This week, I was browsing around the internet searching for some summer school I want to attend, and accidentally found this term experimental art. I had deeper research on experimental art. It might sounds I broadened my research field. But it actually means a lot to myself since I am new to this field. And I realized this word can better describe what I am interested into. But don’t worry, I will look into it deeper. And this term might have an answer to Thursdays question, and I will try to answer it here:
1 What is my definition of performance art?
My definition to myself is different from my definition to the world.
To myself, performance art is using body movement or certain behavior to express certain ideas, and it is usually abstract, it is more narrow sense.
To the world, my own definition is more broad sense, it can cover all the performance such as stand-up comedy!
Why there is a difference is bacause I want to narrow myself down to something I am not good at, to challenge myself, to open-up myself.
2 What is the skills that classifies a performance artist? Which part I want to explore？
The first question is still devided into two aspects. To me and to the world, I have different standards. For myself, I want to explore body movement.
3 Do a bit more research!
I did some research around experimental art.
And I also had an idea about a combination of my art and my comedy tour. I am having a comedy special tour around Europe from June 21th to July 7th, it will be no less than 7 shows covering Manchester UK, London UK, Madrid Spain, Valencia Spain, Barcelona Spain, Milan Italy, Frankfurt Germany. And a tutor once suggested that I can make full use of this opportunity to test my intervention. I thought I can record some video of my work (and the art work is related to my comedy material) and use projector (since it is easy to carry) to project it at the entrance of the comedy show, I will also put some sticker notes in case someone want to interact with it (but I think there will be so many better ways to interact than just sticker notes) and the audience can decide whether they want to spend time watch it or even interact with it (so far the interaction I want is to gather what they think what I am doing), and after my show, when the audience leave, they can watch is again at the entrance and write down what they think I am doing again to see if it is more clear or not. It is to test if comedy can make performance art more approachable to wider audience.
For the 3 tasks:
- Draft plan/design of your project management strategy
- Draft timeline with your goals/milestones mapped out over the Summer Independent Study Period
- Update your blogs with your reflections/thoughts on the session
As I already shared with my reflections on the session, here is my draft of project management strategy and timeline of my indepent study at the very below.
For the management strategy, I did read all the strategies course tutor shared with us on Tuesday, but for me, I think what works most is a combination of using my calendar on my phone, my physical paper calender, my reminder board. And I used it for a long time ago, here is the evidence:
And here is my time line: