Mark Lombardi was an artist who mapped intricate relations between individuals, corporations, governments and other institutions. Lombardi called his drawings ‘Narrative Structures’. He was interested in how networks of power inevitably operated on relationships of secrecy, fraud, conspiracy and collusion.
Lombardi is an interesting artist to consider for your poster assessment. And he’s also great for thinking about practice-led research. He shows how seemingly-unrelated aspects of contemporary life are in fact, often, thoroughly convergent. He’s also a great example of an artist whose work is the result of intense research. Lombardi’s maps are the result of painstaking study and archival uncoverings.
Remember that when we talk about practice-led research and research-led practice in this course, we’re not talking about a defined or conventional way of doing research. Research in art and design can mean literally anything; it’s different for each person, and project, and work.
