Chip off the ol’ Block Chippy Prone to error Fallible These are some of my most recent notes taken as I work, thoughts inspired by my making, a select few that resonate with me more than others. At the earlier stages of this investigation of process, Roseanne Bartley said my images made her think of… Continue reading The True Nature/CODA
Category: Sarah Walker-Holt
Interior Space/Te Uru
Thoughts becoming Thoughts/CODA
“For no thought can be thought before it is thought, and thinking a thought has a certain element of materiality to it, found within speech and writing. Contrary to Aristotle’s Peri hermenaias, where speech is a sign of thought and writing is a sign of speech, such that thought is conceived as an origin or… Continue reading Thoughts becoming Thoughts/CODA
Dissection/CODA
I am searching for a truth to my materials. How do the materials make me do what I do to them; how does process dictate form? Currently, I have been making notes as I work with the intention of understanding what makes me do to a material, what I do. Dissection is an integral part… Continue reading Dissection/CODA
Backtrack/Te Uru
My understanding of the term ‘Actants’ comes mostly from Bruno Latour’s, Technology is Society Made Durable, where his initial engagement with the reader describes a scenario of European hotels displaying notices to remind patrons to return their room keys on leaving and the unsuccessfulness of the signs working. To rectify this they attached ‘large cumbersome… Continue reading Backtrack/Te Uru
Initiating Actions/Te Uru
How can things indicate to a human what they what them to do or initiate specific actions? I’m interested in the ideology of objects being used as ‘Actants’; how they can be put in a certain place or paired with other things to make a person act in a particular way. Te Uru is a… Continue reading Initiating Actions/Te Uru
Thinking through Making/CODA
The artists I have been paired with, Lucy Sarneel, Reka Fekete, and Attai Chen, all resonate with the idea of Thinking through Making. Similarly, I allow my own work to manifest itself as it develops. I see the theme Rough and Raw as a metaphor for Thinking through Making; a primary part of the making… Continue reading Thinking through Making/CODA
introducing handshake 5
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″ background_color=”#f4f4f4″ link_option_url=”https://www.handshakeproject.com/handshake-5/”] The newly-formed HANDSHAKE 5 group came together for JEWELcamp at Te Auaha (Wellington) with the briefing of the two unique exhibition projects that occurs later this year. Roseanne Bartley workshopped in her masterclass creative ways of approaching the making practice. Her feedback continues within the first quarter of 2019. Different coaches… Continue reading introducing handshake 5