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April 15, 2009: an open ended yet specific body of knowledge

The great thing about art is that it is so open ended yet specific. We can bring research and ideas from almost any context, discipline and history to bear in our research as artists. Psycho-geography, sexuality, structuralism, post-structuralism, Freud’s notions of the uncanny, auto mechanics, gardening, and hydroponics all can easily be brought into an art context. With a field this open, how do we make sense of it? I think we need to specialize out of necessity. Otherwise how can you make sense of it all- it’s to much.

A body of knowledge and a way of knowing. An attempt to have some measure of control within the larger world that keeps moving so fast around us. Making art is an attempt to say- I am thinking about this. I experienced this. I know this- material knowledge, embodied knowledge, non academic; ways of knowing and bodies of knowledge.

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