Field Notes | The blurring of art, text + life | Kathy Kelley

who unfolds you onto your own pathways? re-membering you not archivalily but in presence–without a dissolution at the threshold of other into other? yet the materialization of self is neither accessed nor culled without the tug of other? we are, i am, dependent on other....

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art making as contextual other–as resolving alternate avenues of being

13 Dec 2015

doing artist, Judith Butler, research ramblings, selfie

kathy

mundane ramblings, research ramblings

MORNING MUSINGS. “Moments of unknowingness about oneself tend to emerge in the context of relations to others, suggesting that these relations call upon primary forms of relationally that are not always available to explicit and reflective thematization. If we are formed...

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Art as an Accounting of Oneself. Reflecting artist into a Judith Butler essay.

11 Dec 2015

academic textabation, doing artist, Judith Butler, research development

kathy

research ramblings, response to texts

Butler’s text, “An Account of Oneself” in Judith Butler in Converstation: Analyzing Texts and Talk of Everyday Life (2008), for me calls to mind the fact that I can never keep my fingernails clean. As artist this unfeminine trait of dirty nails does...

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staking out the ground, a research framework. who or how is artist realized

09 Dec 2015

ART 5364, code development, doing artist, research defining terms, research development

kathy

research

Defining a ground, a research framework—who is artist based on conventions of doing, vocational practices? Artist’s doings (art making?) realize into social space the invocation of assessment of communal modules of knowing and doing through material form, processes, subject matter,...

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

25 Nov 2015

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

kathy

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...

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

18 Nov 2015

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

kathy

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,...

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doing artist

dissolution at the threshold of other

art making as contextual other–as resolving alternate avenues of being

Art as an Accounting of Oneself. Reflecting artist into a Judith Butler essay.

staking out the ground, a research framework. who or how is artist realized

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

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

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