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Look back – Look now – Look forward to the Skills Hub
Completing 1.1 Experience Creative Arts was quite a battle at the end, due to time frames and my own procrastination. Yes, I had a lot going on in terms of…
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Exercise 1: Planning your area of interest and title
The aim of my essay: I am going to explore how spirals have been used as an artistic symbol of time. Question: How have spirals been used as a symbol…
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Assignment Eight: Creating an Archive
After experimenting with padlet, a website and a presentation, I wanted to create a creative archive in a video format. I wanted to focus on the place of Newgrange but…
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Exercise 3: Plan the form of your archive
There are a few ideas I experimented with before settling on the idea of a film. Website I did consider making an archival website that could be an ongoing project…
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Exercise 2: Create an Inventory
How will my archive be navigated by others? I am going to create a documentary-type video about Newgrange. It will contain readings of creative writing pieces about the people who…
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Exercise 1: Gathering your archive
Event – the making of the Newgrange Spirals I have decided to start gathering material for my archive on padlet. Padlet link: https://padlet.com/claire5279411/spiralarchive Reflection What types of material do you…
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Walid Raad – The Atlas Group
Raad’s archival practice follows this idea of fictionalisation and raises questions about what is fact and what is fiction when looking at archives and records of past events. Born in…
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Case Study: Karenjit Sandu, Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive
Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive is a multimodal text by Karenjit Sandhu which brings together poetry, found language, objects, sound and performance. What do you notice about the form of the…
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The Last Push
A new plan of action as I have five days before I need to submit my final Assignment 10 and due to being ill again, I am behind. I very…
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Assignment 7: Place and Time in the Archive
Creative Archive Summary of Understanding To archive seems a very human response to situations. By this I mean it is common for people to want to collect things related to…
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Exercise 3: Respond to an event to archive
I have already started to post some initial ideas here. I would like to incorporate spirals into the archive somewhere as they are a motif I keep returning to. I…
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Aby Warburg’s work Mnemosyne Atlas (1924–1929)
Description Warburg’s attempt to ‘map the afterlife of antiquity’, focused on the renaissance. He chose Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory and mother of the muses, as the patron saint…
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