- Chantel Matthews
Methods & Pinning things down
Updated: May 26, 2020
Brainstorm
Lens, recording sound, clay, reading, writing, public performance, conversations, found objects, objects performing, found objects, process - act, everyday, dreaming, breaking things, listening.
Trying to resist naming what is unameable
How to pin intuition down into words
Space of research, because we dont know, can't know but have to be hyper aware.
What do I care about?
what research is necessary to discuss what I care about and why.
Show it visually anyway.
Subject (Mana)
Strength
Spirit
Power
Method
Performance
Video
Materials that have low impact
Methodology
Empowerment
Society
Social Concerns
Impact on the environment
Keywords #2
reframe - context
redefine - context
substance - method - methodology
mana - methodology - subject matter
space - method - methodology
wāhine - subject matter
How do I redefine mana without losing mana?
How do I reframe and redefine the way mana wahine are seen? (beyond the political)
What substance do I use to redefine and reframe the way mana wahine is seen?
What spaces do I look at, what spaces do I create and work in?
Why mana wahine, what about other types of mana?
what do I want to achieve?
how do I want to be seen?
What is it to tell our story
What do I mean to tell?
Is it the telling important?
What do we have to address?
How to we identify ourselves as self defining people
What's the discourse I'm using?
Who is this for Parallels of successions
Why you? Why this way? Who are you?
What are you gonna do about it, do with it?
Thoughts
Context as a starting point - Experience - idea - mine - mana, mana wahine - whakapapa - Self - material - blood - question - how are we seen, how can we be seen - how do we want to be seen - is it ethical.
My experience - feelings - generate - questions - what that question looks like in art context. How using the self to reframe, redefine, the self to better understand the self in all areas, in completeness. As a woman, mother, maori, artist what are my responsibilities, position, beliefs, values. Considerate of time, space, place, others.