Tuesdays will never be the same.

116 days until graduation!

Dave Hickey On Critique

"My one rule is that I do not do group crits. They are social occasions that reinforce the norm. They impose a standardized discourse. They privilege unfinished, incomplete art... If you're not sick, don't call the doctor... I don't care about an artist's intentions. I care if the work looks like it might have some consequences."

Perhaps it is that they not only privilege but promote incomplete art. How often is it that we present our work in what we would call its most finalized, properly presented state? Although I some times agree that a work of art is never finished, why do we not more often take it upon ourselves to present it as such? Or come up with an alternative to the customary critique ritual?

Cricket Sonata No.1

The moon was battling the thick clouds,
Threating to sufficate and extinguish it's life.
The ripples of clouds were beautifully strange,
imitating the pllowed fields below.

And then the clouds won,
and the crickets sang their lament.

© Mandie E. Lousier

Collaborators,

I'm trying to do research on collaborations to understand the nature of the act in which I'm participating.  Anybody have any names for me?  They don't have to be photographers by any means.  So far I've been researching:

Gilbert & George (there are some amazing videos of the duo in Milwaukee on this page of MAM's site)
Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
Mike & Doug Starn
Lindsey Lockman & Barbara Ciurej
Triiibe

...and I've talked briefly with Bob Smith about his collaboration with Jon Horvath. Preferably I'd like to know of longer term collaborations, not just for one project.  Help me, please!

Rose

Senior Year

So this post is a little late, but it has truly begun. I felt the buzz that first Tuesday when we all entered the new senior studio, back together again.
Let us make of this a productive year. As Tara said in conversation, let us "Build our islands." Let us live and create and enjoy and work hard and inspire one another and be inspired. Let us find what holds our fascination, what will sustain us from now until the end of our days. Let us never stop asking questions. Let us discuss these and find amongst one another challenges to our views in order to expand and to grow.

Let me begin this discussion by proposing a question: What would you be doing if there was no such thing as a camera?

This week: Haggerty Internship and the Humanity of the Moment by Aryn Kresol

Today I began my summer internship at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee. I most definitely have a fun, interesting, engaging, challenging, and educational few months ahead of me and I am quite excited. There was no time wasted as I was pulled into an exhibition meeting just moments after my arrival. I have a long list of artist names to explore. After the meeting my time was spent attempting to learn staff names, reading, writing, and learning a little bit about the museum computer cataloging system (which every one is learning since it is new).

I was ecstatic upon seeing a piece in the current exhibition, one by photographer Ruth Bernhard (featured in my Collect.Select.Reflect collection on my personal blog: .enigmatic.intent.photography.). The piece was a lot larger than I anticipated and I later found out that it was a reprint of the original, printed thirty years later. Bernhard is among my favored photographers.


In the Box - Horizontal 1962 © Ruth Bernhard


In other news, the class that I was T.A.'d for during the spring semester is having a show of work produced over the duration of the course. The class was run in conjunction with Milwaukee Art Museum's Street Seen photography exhibition, which closed at the end of April. The Humanity of the Moment opens this Wednesday, May 26th at the Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda at 4:45pm - 7:30pm. I will be there! If you are in Milwaukee and interested in seeing some photos, come out for sure. The show runs through June 4th. Visit the MIAD site for all the info that I just gave here and more.