Samantha Stephens MFA 2023 @samanthasmfa - Tumblr Blog

Notes from today's supervision session!

Reuben Paterson (New Zealand, 1973), All I Want to do is Thankyou Forever (Pavo Constellation), 2024. Glitter, acrylic, Pacific pearls and Japanese freshwater pearls on panel, 36 x 24 in.

#reuben paterson

Mahi at the lasercutter and in the printmaking studio today!

#printmaking #protest art #text #aotearoa #mfa #lasercutting #lasercut

#printmaking #protest art #text #aotearoa #mfa #posters

Did some prints tonight!

#printmaking #protest art #text #aotearoa #mfa

Recent work!

#printmaking #text #lasercutting

Notes from meeting post talk

We will be assessed later in the year

Library / Te Pikitanga exhibition from Mon 12th - Friday 17th August, 2024. Use this time to test works and plan for later exhibitions. Prep for the bollards.

Examination exhibition - 29th September - 12th October, 2024.

Examiners all available - yay!

Lecturers will need to figure out a day, time, weather is good

Use this as a springboard for the rest of the year - and to the future as an artist.

Julieanna's residual thoughts:

gathering / collecting -> Don't yet quite see what its protesting

they are powerful works but maybe I don't understand why

my analysis of artist models in my talk was responsible and surface-level but not quite a critical analysis

I have a responsibility to myself

I have a hybrid practice

Will need to write a positionality statement in my thesis

Kingsley's thoughts:

Speak to the spectrum of queerness

My experience in the community

the works that have my own words are better. I am not co-opting any messages

What are my rules?

Final bullet thoughts:

extremism

radicalisation

goofiness

whimsy

punchline

partial

off the page

can't read them

look longer

look again

tone is important

Lenny Bruce

timeliness

more rigorous

set the brief

Badges - how do they get made? Used? Make them matter.

#notes

27-moons

QudsNetwork

Hmmm

kropotkindersurprise

The red triangle on blue and white stripes is the flag of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists, antifascists who were made to wear the red triangle by the Nazis in the concentration camps where they were incarcerated for their anti-nazi actions or ideology.

Germany is once again on the wrong side of history, once again choosing to support genocide. Germany is actively making part of its own antifascist history illegal to support an ongoing genocide!

Germany is banning a German antifascist symbol to stop criticism of the genocide being committed by Israel!