Questioning Jacques Rancière’s assertions, art could start turning the spectator into a conscious agent in transforming the world (Rancière,2009). I have arranged my thoughts, findings, and reflections and made them visible by creating these vessels of knowledge. They have taken the physical form of zines, objects, and a panel in an installation containing links to…
Goldsmiths: Sarah Chalkie Cloonan. A critical reflective statement. Independent Studies. September 2022.
Making Thought Visible. In this statement written at the end of my MA in Arts and Learning, I critically reflect on what I have learnt while making and researching how my art practice might fit now within an educational setting. I show how this new learning will feedback into my praxis for the future as…
regroup Collective presents intimacy
A group show featuring the work of 20 artists across painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and performance at Fitzrovia Gallery, London. 12th-16th July, 12-6pm PV, 14th July, 6-9pm The interdisciplinary thinker and philosopher Luce Irigaray believed that intimate listening, ‘the special listening we might reserve for the words of a lover’, could create a space for…
Reviewing my CAMMA research on learning in context with my research for The Goldsmiths MA in Arts and Learning.
Last year I wrote: Art and Epistemology (art-ep). In this unit, I would like to research knowledge and learning. How and where do we find it and might we acquire it from images? The relationship between Art and Learning has long been examined, and every age has held its own opinions. One opinion from the…
Goldsmiths: Spaces of Practice. Essay Module 3.
Can a gallery be both a space of art production and a space of display? In my essay I shall be focusing on the Whitechapel Gallery as the place of display, asking if it might be a place of production too. I shall be experimenting with ethnographic and phenomenological research methods at the gallery and…
Goldsmiths: Researching my everyday phenomena for I.S. Goldsmith’s Arts & Learning MA.
‘Memento Vivere’ ‘Tapestries of thought or collages of experience, memories, or assemblages, objects of information’ They prove Im here, what form they take is an adventure – I never know what the residue will be. They are my response to living. They remain as reminders me to live. ‘Memento Vivere’. I am exploring non prosaic,…
Goldsmiths: How may art enliven the classroom?
Let it lurk in the maths room and sexy up science. Enrich English and add some he, me, she said what to the French paper. Propose a new lens through which to view physics and add a bit of charm to chemistry. Show how the body is displaced in biology. What’s not to like if…
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