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writings

To be natural is such a very hard pose to keep up

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

the repetitive stylized act of doing dumpster dive, doing artist, doing gender

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ART 5364, butler, doing artist, gender, Kandinksy, performativity

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research, research ramblings

Holiday schmoliday! I’ve got things to contemplate, reconfigure and loosely codify as a kind of academic cognitive capitol. Actually my notions of artist identity constituted, writing praxis as a possible form of artist resilience, realization and alteration of thought communities is...

deconstructing a few academic defense mechanisms and distorted thinking with a gender bent and my bum on a donald judd artwork (wink)

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ART 5364, gender, whine

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art, mundane ramblings

the following is an account of my own humorous and dysfunctional defense mechanisms (rational) that help me hold myself together in the face of the threatening challenge of scholarly writing. here is how it sounds in my head as a...

COMPRESSING Doing artist as doing gender: artist identity constitution in the wake of vocational troubling [and trauma]

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ART 5364, creativity, Judith Butler, transgenre, troubling

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research, research ramblings

[COMPRESSION OF RESEARCH DIRECTION TO 500 WORDS–a practice at clarity through reduction–plus a end not on possible connection to trauma research] There is a trend that visual artists’ who enact an undoing, a troubling, [1] of conventions in their work—whether through materiality,...

Doing artist as doing gender: artist identity troubling in the wake of vocational troubling

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ART 5364, gender, Judith Butler, research direction, research questions

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research, research ramblings

[REWRITING AS I RESOLVE MY LARGER RESEARCH DIRECTIONS] There is a trend that visual artists’ who enact an undoing, a troubling, [1] of conventions in their work—whether through materiality, form, process, presentation, subject matter, or theme—also have a writing practice....

I wonder if I make Judith Butler laugh or gnash her teeth.

Ha, note how I have encoded this wonder as a binary in which Butler might find herself troubled because she neither fully fits with fits of laughter or garish gnarling and gnashing of teeth in reaction to how I flippantly bastardize her important ideas.

artist as forming in troubling and then being compelled to be about troubling troublings. [got it?]

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ART 5364, doing artist, gender, Judith Butler, research ramblings

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mundane ramblings, research

I find it paradoxically funny that I desire a categorically FIXED definition of troubling from Judith Butler’s texts when all her writings point to the notion that the categorical is inherently complex and unstable. Because identity is unstable and complex what is destabilizing,...

GENDER TROUBLING? or am I just bull shitting myself in order to identity the function of writing for the visual artist?

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academic textabation, ART 5364, research

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research ramblings

There is a trend that visual artists’ who enact an undoing (altering or obstructing) of conventions, whether of materiality, form, process, subject matter or theme, in their work also have a writing practice. I believe this practice arises to counter...

[academic textabation] why all this pink? good question

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ART 5364, first encounters with ones own femininity, pink

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femininity kathy

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mundane ramblings

Not that anyone has yet to ask me “Why all the pink?” in the interdisciplinary project propaganda for the first encounters with one’s own femininity, yet I have been second guessing myself on the calls Barbie pink and swishy motif. I suppose I had a...

making bad art

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making bad art, process

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mundane ramblings, process

The risk of not making daily is that each making spurt then places you back at your beginning. You must then rework through making bad art for a short duration before your body finds the rhythms in making again, before...

Academic Textabation: Bending citations—I try to ACT in the gap

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academic textabation, ART 5364, citational bending, robert rauschenberg

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response to texts

Bending citations—I try to ACT in the gap[i] A tangential response to Brandon Joseph’s The Gap and the Frame* about Robert Rauschenberg I pass a dumpster and register its contents, sheet upon sheet of gymnasium wrestling floor matts. There is an...

doing life — the discrepancies between intent and outcome

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ART 5364, critique, doing life

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mundane ramblings

I find it disconcerting that I cannot get my internal sense of care or consideration to juxtapose contiguously with what spills from my lips. Instead I become undone as I see reflected misreadings that suggest my intent and words are...

Doing artist is as doing gender: in the face of chaffing conventions and bending citations

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ART 5364, gender, JL Austin, Judith Butler, performativity, research proposal, research questions, resilience, social identity theory, speech act, visual artists writings

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proposals, research

Doing artist as doing gender RESEARCH QUESTIONS Can corollaries of performative constitution and maintenance of gender identity with that of doing artist shed light on the transgenre practices of seminal visual artists, artists who make as well as write? There...

Agnes Martin :: Gender-linked language practices paralleled in art object

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agnes martin, anthony Mulac, ART 5364, ARTH 5382, gender saliency, gender-linked language, george layoff, Judith Butler, mark johson, performativity, robin layoff

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proposals, research

PROJECT IDEATION From Freud’s slips of the tongue[1] onward, language has been understood as a social mechanism that carries traces of our conscious and unconscious beliefs, fears, patterns of thinking, social positioning, gender associations and personalities.[2] These same beliefs, fears, patterns...

…and you will be “right” and happy…a note from my grandmother to my mom

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ART 5364, family, feminism, gender, mom, mundane ramblings, performitivity

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mundane ramblings

On the inside cover of the 699 yellow paged hard bound tome of Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Ettiquette: A Guide to Gracious Living I found the following note to my mom from her mother dated 1957: May this answer all...

slow bending of citations

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ART 5364, research ramblings

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research, research ramblings

is exaggerating, playing with, accelerating the slow bendings of particular citations the dominant function of artists from a social stand point. is that the key role artists fill? if artists generally are less inhibited in terms of social conventions does...

slowly bending citations — the language of female visual artists

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academic textabation, ART 5364, bending citations, Judith Butler

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research ramblings

i love judith butler’s turn of phrase “slowly bending citations” as it relates to the destabilization of normative practices from within. If creativity, the capital C type of creativity, which can be defined as practices that result in paradigm shifts,...

is “doing artist” the equivalent of “doing gender”?

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academic textabation, ART 5364, artists writings, dissertation, feminism, Judith Butler, mundane ramblings, Texas Tech

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research, research ramblings

Tangent [Julia Kristeva’a intertextual ADD] of the dissertation direction sort… I am currently reading The Topless Cellist (on Charlotte Moorman) for a class and for another class I am perusing the article “A Performative-Performance Analytical Approach: Infusing Butlerian Theory Into the Narrative-Discursive...

breaching this space aloud

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ART 5364, Dopt (the dog), hermitage, lubbock, writing

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mundane ramblings

for me the most effective way to proof my writing is to read it out loud. i usually don’t. despite what appears to be exhibitionism on my fb status updates and my documentation of my art practice, my life habits...

“research becomes an alternative to self cannibalization” Lopate

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academic textabation, ART 5364, artist writings, certainty, data mining, insistence, linguistic, LIWC, neophyte, QDA Miner, research, Texas Tech, TT course work, WordStat7

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mundane ramblings, research

my playpen :: anti-self cannibalization :: it is my tendency to jump in the deep end to see if I can explore this realm while learning to efficiently navigate a pool and a swim/floating method I haven’t previously used. Things...

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