Discuss

           Institutionalization: there are a few notable dissatisfactions with the “art school” context however I will ask whether this extends beyond and be about institutionalisation more generally? Does my practising methodologies fit the institutional structure?

 My dissatisfaction with the art school context could possibly be a result of a wider displeasure with general institutionalisation, perhaps with further emphasis on the role of gender. This, of course, highlights how we are formed as a subject. This not only gives me a ‘language’ to work with, but also something I can work against.

After conferring with a correspondent I have made the conscious decision to research the writings of ‘Michel Fouclant’, whose books appear to cover the systems of knowledge that create our subjectivity and how knowledge and power are not essential forces, much rather bound together.

In regards to my shooting range idea, I now feel it would be better as a creative narrative rather than a exhibited piece, following the works of Jürgen Habermas. His pieces on modernisation and ‘predictable gestures’ could suggest that the experimental becomes a genre. This ties into my shooting range idea, as I don’t want it to become a one-time opportunity, rather something I can expand on at a later date. I feel it would be most advantageous to go and see the Duchamp exhibition in order to draw inspiration at this stage.

The current problem I am facing is that I don’t want my work to become mis-interpreted as conceptual. Tying this is with my shooting-range proposal I can express my interest for socially-engaged art: limiting the shooting range to female engagement.

Another idea at this stage, rather than the social statement that is a women only display, is taking up a currently unoccupied shop. This I could then turn into an alternative Winchester School of Art in order to establish a new institutional context in a collective experience.