Posts Tagged ‘Maranda’
Visual Arts Research – Three Books
(This post was written last April and has been sitting in the Drafts folder - time to let it go:)Craig Leonard, Clive Robertson and Michael Maranda are all artists. In their practices, they share a love of print, text, publication. And they all have produced research that they did on their own steam as it were, more or less self-directed, yet with [...]
Not so suddenly… research.
It was wrong of me to suggest that research in the arts sector has been fatally tainted by self-interest, as I did in my last post. The problem is with the definition of self-interest. If a particular "self" has a problem that it needs addressed, then it helps if that "self" can demonstrate that the problem is real, show its dimensions, origins, [...]
Suddenly research is sexy again.
Ottawa is abuzz with research. The Canada Council is said to be convening a meeting of client groups to review their research needs. The Canadian Conference of the Arts released with great fanfare a new study called Waging Culture, A report on the socio-economic status of Canadian visual artists, produced, improbably, by an artist and an art [...]
