After studying the concept of the subversive, I have been pondering my own work and the reasons that I made this work. One main part of my work which seems obvious now is my graduate exhibition from last year. NOT IN THE PICTURE, was our graduate show exhibiting for our final year work. The title of this exhibition was implied to make a statement about the university removing our course from the curriculum. This in itself was subversive towards the university, expressing our upset and discouragement of what the university think of fine art. Thankfully I still had the opportunity to continue onto the masters degree but I feel sorry for the current third years as they will not be allowed to continue their studies in art at Portsmouth.
Not in the picture was our opportunity to express what we are capable of and make an impact. Showing our skills and what the university are about to lose from removing fine artists from there selection of students.
My work for this exhibition expressed the importance of how artists can work along side other faculties to improve understanding and comprehension of important movements. I specialised in science and art collaboration, studying the complexity of memory and synapse neurone storage. Establishing current comprehension of the visualisation of memory. Asking my candidates to visualise something which we cannot see was a challenging subversive task. Fortunately for me they were all capable of some form of aesthetic interpretation. This helped prove and express to a very large audience the importance of why we need artists within modern society of digital design.
One thing that I have noticed in recent years of fine art study, is how the notion of abstract is become increasingly difficult when technology is enforced. Calculation methods of digital design does not always seem to allow factors for random formation of brush strokes, colour contrast mixtures, abstract medium or marvellous mistakes.
Through consideration of subversion I looked back at my previous work and found that I have been ironic and subversive in many ways, such as growing plants through paper, doodling trees on paper, making resin from varnish and setting into Petri dishes imitating bacteria with bacteria and so many more. This method of visual language expresses many forms of subversion, however the language of expression itself is most important. The description of these works and my own verbal explanation is vital. The words I used to describe my intentions and the words I used to enforce this impact are most vital to comprehending how the main form of communication to achieve the subversive is language.
This is why my response to question of research is mainly formed through the consequence vocabulary.
We all have moments where we forget what we were trying to say, or just cant seem to find the right word. Maybe because of my previous curiosity in memory and understanding how we know what we know, and the study of epistemology, but something always leads me back to this ideology. Evolving the decisions we make and the lives we therefor lead because of these choices, how memories are formed from this and how we move on day by day with new experiences influenced by this journey. The communication we have with the journey and decision making is through words, what if there were others words which meant both yes and no, true and false. Words that have been forgotten or disused to the point of extinction and new words which have new meanings that have only arose in recent years due to environmental change.
After this consideration my research has became a new cycle within the iterative process of information, analysis, synthesis, testing and evaluation.
My final test of this theory is to have ten candidates and ten words, new and old. To see what their expectation of meaning that these ten words have. Either logically calculated or random guessing, or maybe even actual recognition of these mysterious words. I also want my candidates to rate these words on whether they would use them on a regular day to day basis, once in a while or never at all, from 1-10.
This should hopefully help analyse how important these certain words are and how they can be used in context to help describe situations, feeling and consequences more accurately, which will imply to how we use other words.
Impact of subversive can only be described through written, spoken or visual language. This is how we understand the world around us, communicate and build relationships and evidently control our decision through logical or impulse response.