Title: Making bodies, making space and making memory in artistic practice
Abstract:Artistic processes and creative making have attracted increasing attention in social and cultural geography with researchers focusing on the variety of ways in which artists experience and explore the...Artistic processes and creative making have attracted increasing attention in social and cultural geography with researchers focusing on the variety of ways in which artists experience and explore the environments which surround them, and how the spaces relate to their creative making. The studio is approached as an important knowledge space, an archive and material repository, where artists store but also explore their personal collections of resources, memories and materialities through their creative processes. The studio is here viewed as essentially an imagination and knowledge chamber where artists engage in practice based on material resources, knowledge, learned scholarship; a civilized pursuit based on learning. The studio has long been a central feature of how people perceive artists working lives but the contemporary studio can, of course, take a variety of forms and have many functions depending on the intention of the artist and the resources at their disposal.Read More
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-22
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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