Research Questions 2#

First question was: How can a socially engaged practice operate in an art school?

The question is negative; assuming that such a practise cannot operate in an art school which is of course not true, but the very idea of a student conducting such a practise and the issues associated, is of interest.

With lots of deliberation I do now feel my interests were about the institution and how certain specification contradicted art practise.

Second question: To what affect can a specifically designed space influence participants in a socially engaged art work?

I have a problem with using the term "socially engaged"
The question is not working hard enough for me and the ideas I have. So what I thought I would do bullet points of my ideas and we could come up with something better?

• The sorts of spaces I am interested in is spaces for action and exchange
• Project spaces
• Hans Ulrich Obrist (curator): "The instructions is the work not the object...Instructions can be interpreted in different ways like recipes"
•  How we design the space around the activity idea could comply with a set of rules?
• "RULES OF THE GAME"
• curating is a massive part of my interests and how the space/work manipulates the viewer.
• Work spaces are also of interest
• the value in collective knowledge and how to nurture that.
• the possibility of producing different formats for public space. The currency exchanged in such situations may be cultural even political, the currency of social interaction is indeed as generic as it gets.
• How does such work connect to a person? I want people to not look at it but be in it!
• Aesthetics of space are important.

Here are some ideas I have accumulated today which gets me no further to my final question but I suppose I have to start somewhere.