One-to-One tutorial / critique conversation with Dr Graham Lister.

I had an excellent critique with Dr Graham Lister who suggested that I looked at the work of Simon Critchley and a book entitled "Very Little, Almost Nothing" (1997); Routledge, London. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Critchley

This was described as a sample of fragments, a collective for a new meaning. A rebuild. Work is described as never finished, and always subject to change. The work is never completed and helps to highlight the intangible.  Ultimately, on reflection and further research, I found this book to be conceerned with the relationship between literature and philosophy and the problem of nihilism.  I shall research this book in time as I see a link here to one of my favourite philosophers, -  of Nietsche.

Dr Lister also explained the importance of keeping artworks open,  - it is not about finishing a piece of work as the unfinished article speaks volumes greater than the finished one. He recommended I looked at how I can focus on "points of transition".

The aesthetic of "producing" is more interesting than the finished article.

• A further area of interest is the concept of the archive, Dr Lister suggested looking at the book "Compendium of the Archive", a book edited by Steven Johnson. 
• Another useful source would be "archives of the fallen"
• Further reading for Practice as Research can be obtained from the book by McLeod and Holridge. 
• An interesting observation that Dr Lister also made was to ask what was the "vessel" that contained the fragments.
• Another point of interest would be the writer Charles Merewether who also wrote the book called "The Archive",
• It is worth referencing the book by Walter Benjamin entitled "The Arcades Project", which has a sculptural reference and works with the concepts of 'fragments' and fragmentation for its contents. 
• Look at Aby Warburg's "Atlas" too, -this is a useful reference, 
• together with the same name of works by Gerhardt Richter also entitled "Atlas".

In a subsequent conversation with Dr Homes, in summary the Research and Practice and Pedagogy triad is what is of particular interest here. 

Conclusions;

• This fits with Dr Dale Holmes assertion of the triad of research, practice, pedagogy. 
• This also ties in with the formative assessment of what, why and how, together with a description of how you as an artist are going to move forward. 
• Academically it is currently the fashion to try to condense this "what, why and how" Artistic statement into 300 words, - or three minutes of narrative.