I’ve commented on four blogs, and here are the links: Sprint 3: Sprint 3 | Beyond the Visual – Reflective Analysis – Chenyan Wang / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1] (ed.ac.uk) Sprint 3 Beyond the Visual_Reflection – Jing-Ting Huang / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1] (ed.ac.uk) Sprint 4: COMMONS – Zekun Yang / Themes in […]

‘…consider how the arts and contemporary theory structure “the commons” anew: how the commons becomes both a goal and a trope in post-millennial art and cultural theory.’ (Amy J. Elias) In this Sprint, I was introduced to a completely new concept – the commons. As I progressed in my studies, I realised that although the […]

Embodied knowledge, while often denigrated and disavowed within the modern colonial episteme, confirms that Western scientistic validity comprises only one kind of knowing. Manifest through poetics, aesthetics, and other bodily attunements, sensuous knowledges open to alternative modes of relation. […] A sensory, embodied, affective, and imaginative relation to the world opens to a different kind […]

Our journey to Calton Hill is a journey of touch. The hardest part of this journey was deciding what form to take on our journey to the Calton Hills, excluding visual expression. An auditory expression was of course the simplest and easiest to think of, but it seemed a little banal to our group. We […]

In her article, “Derek Jarman’s Blue: Negating the Visual”, Jenna Carine Ashton states “The auditory comes to replace the visual; with Blue there is a sensory tussle as we are forced  to listen.” Reflecting on your own experience of watching Blue, do you agree? Why/why not? Consider this work in relation to González-Torres’ Untitled (A portrait of Ross […]

I’ve commented on four blogs, and here are the links: Sprint 1: Theme Feedback (two week) – Xiaodong Liu / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1] Sprint 1 Weird_Reflection – Jing-Ting Huang / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1] (ed.ac.uk) Sprint 2: Play – Zekun Yang / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1] (ed.ac.uk) Week4 play： orange – […]

The great trouble with art in this country [the United States] at present, and apparently in France also, is that there is no spirit of revolt— no new ideas appearing among the younger artists. They are following along the paths beaten out by their predecessors, trying to do better what their predecessors have already done. […]

In the sprint play we first received an existing score, our group’s score was called walk and the rules were very simple. We tried this score in the large classroom next to the classroom, and as we had customised our criteria, the scene was somewhat disorganised and chaotic, not like we were playing a score, […]

“Weird Studies” is a scholarly field that doesn’t and can’t exist. The Weird is that which resists any settled explanation or frame of reference. It is the bulging file labelled “other/misc.” in our mental filing cabinet, full of supernatural entities, magical synchronicities, and occult rites. But it also appears when a work of art breaks […]

In the course on 28 September, we were asked to create a conspiracy theory, which was a new experience for me, as I had been learning positive knowledge in my previous studies, whereas conspiracy theories are considered by the world to be meaningless anti-knowledge. I had never tried to create a convincing counter-knowledge before. We […]