The Pedagogue’s New Clothes
June 3rd, 2009 by nkatz22
My MFA thesis “The Pedagogue’s New Clothes” is now available for purchase on Amazon
Of course you can still download it for free from lulu…
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Lessons in Art and Failure
June 18th, 2008 by nkatz22
Throughout the thesis year i strongly held to the claim that my work lies in the actions that I performed with my participants. It was important for me to maintain the performed action as the integral site of meaning production because I thought it carried enough suggestive power to allow for an active engagement with an audience. Yet, I refused to resort to traditional photographic or video documentation as a means for representing the work. I often chose elusive means of documentation. Each time I showed or talked about the work the critique was voiced that I am not allowing an audience into the experience. It somehow seemed vital to me for the integrity of the work that the specifics remain in the intimate and immediate experience; I also wanted very much for the work to function with an audience outside of the person with whom the work was created. Continue reading ‘Lessons in Art and Failure’
Lessons in Art and Failure
June 18th, 2008 by nkatz22
(photo by bonnie blue)
The consequences of an event, though contextualized as art, will still affect the relationship outside of art.
Lessons in Art and Failure
June 18th, 2008 by nkatz22
(photo by bonnie blue)
The failure lay not in the inability to truly experience something but rather in locating the experience of the work in the activity and not in its translation
Lessons in Art and Failure
June 18th, 2008 by nkatz22
(photo by bonnie blue)
The Garden of Failure is where one can go to acknowledge and embrace one’s failings as an artist.
Lessons in Art and Failure
June 18th, 2008 by nkatz22
(photo by bonnie blue)
Discussing the recursive nature of my diagrams for art making.
thesis
May 28th, 2008 by nkatz22
my thesis is now available for free download or a paperback copy ($17) at lulu.com
Graduate Thesis Exhibition
May 16th, 2008 by nkatz22
Rhode Island School of Design’s
Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition
Coming to Rhode Island Convention Center on May 21
More than 120 RISD artists and designers across 14 disciplines featured in graduate student showcase of art and design at its very best Continue reading ‘Graduate Thesis Exhibition’
thesis progress
May 12th, 2008 by nkatz22
my friend chris robbins has some excellent recent posts on his blog reviewing an old issue of afterall. many of his concerns are similar to issues that have been occupying me and i look forward to picking up that issue and taking up issue with some of his comments. just as soon as i can get this beast of a thesis done with…
which is to say, that the deadline has past and though i had my thesis wrapped up weeks ago, i have gone back in again at the provocation of my committee, and am layering yet another layer of critical eye to my propositions.
you see it all started in a studio visit with christopher ho he hadn’t seen my work before and read it with entirely fresh eyes… and formally. and all of a sudden i felt able to step out of myself and do the same. so, it actually started with daniel peltz when i showed a video in class a few weeks ago, he differentiated between me the person in the video and me the person in the critique. actually a couple of months ago veronica wiman asked me why i am insisting on saying that i am being sincere in my work. finally with chris ho’s visit it all came back to the original impetus and i wondered how i got so caught up in emphasizing the sincerity as the primary functioning agent in the work. that’s not to say that i am not acting in sincerity, but that in my framing of this work as “performing relationships” there is already a clear statement of differentiation. yet, i wasn’t able to step out of the role of me performing relationships and back into the role of me as the artist who framed the relationships to be performed in a specific way. in preparing a piece for the thesis show i thought of my work on a purely formal level and how that could be repurposed for this context. that’s when the new breakthrough materialized, and when my committee saw it they asked that i go back to the writing to reflect it (but it was intuitive… maybe it’s not always so healthy to write and make simultaneously…)
Thesis Prospectus
April 20th, 2008 by nkatz22
Tomorrow is the deadline for the third draft of my thesis. I looked over my prospectus from the fall semester to see how much has changed. Thought I would post it here, it’s a very different document now… Continue reading ‘Thesis Prospectus’