Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Well done on all presentations and discusions yesterday. I thought it was great.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Self Led Seminars Calendar

Week 1: October 20th

Nicholas Dolan
Fiona O'Keeffe
Maria O'Hara
Emma Clarke

Week 2: October 27th

Jane Fogarty
George Warren
Anna O'Byrne
Samantha Kirk

Review Week: November 3rd

Week 3: November 10th

Laura Smith
Kurt Opperman
Margaret FLynn
Max Olohan

Work in Progress Crit: November 17th

Week 4: November 24th

Nadia Shah
Andrew Carson
Emma Byrne
Thomas Collins

Week 5: December 1st

Roisin O'Brien
Meagan De Burca
Penelope Smith
Rachel O'Callaghan

Week 6: December 8th

Elizabeth Doogan
Emma Jayne Geraghty
Neasa O'Shea Brady
Camilla Kane

Week 7: December 15th

Any remaining students who wish to submit.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Plan

THE TUESDAY SELF LED SEMINARS

4th year Fine Art 2009/10 - Semester One

RONAN McCREA

The “Tuesday Self Led Seminars” are a series of seminars
that will run in Semester One co-ordinated by Ronan
McCrea.

Who: All 4th year students

Where: The Seminar Room, Portland Row

When: Every Tuesday from 2pm to 4 pm

Starting: Tuesday 6th October until Tuesday 13th December.
(Except for Review week on 3rd Nov., and CRIT
week on 17th Nov.)

How: Every 4th year student is invited to submit a
proposal for a topic on which they would wish
to make a 15 minute presentation, followed by a
group discussion.

From all the submissions received, Ronan McCrea
will select a number of presentations for the
seminars.

Presentation topics will be organised together
by theme or interest in groups A through F
order to facilitate discussion. The seminars
will be scheduled in advance, and information
circulated

It is expected each seminar will consist of 3
or 4 presentations.

The discussion following each presentation is
very important and all students are expected to
participate.

A tutorial for each group will precede each
seminar the following week. The function of the
tutorial is to refine topics, and identify
relevant contexts. Reference material and
modest reading requirements for each seminar
may be proposed and circulated. The full group
can, if they wish, sit in on these tutorials.

Aim:
The aim of the Tuesday Seminars is to begin a
conversation on how we, as artists, relate what we do to
the wider world and wider cultural and artistic
discourse.

Art does not stand in splendid (or squalid) isolation to
the wider world. It relates, to other art, art history,
ideas of places, ideas of the body, philosophical ideas,
politics, institutions, other cultural forms such as
cinema or literature.

The aim of the seminars is to learn how to think and
discuss how our artistic work is in relationship to the
world, beyond our own subjectivity, and though listening,
gain an insight into mode of thinking of our peers.

The proposal for a topic can be a question you might have
that relates to your work and artistic ideas. (Sometimes
the right question is as important as the answer.)One may
propose a question without having an answer.

Each presentation will address a topic relevant to the
student’s artistic interests and work. Visual material
may be included in your presentation. Computer, TV and
projector will be available in the seminar room for this
purpose.

If you would like to change your presentation idea as the
programme develops, that is ok, but please inform the
group in advance.

Examples of Topic / questions:

• Why is the “meaning” of an artwork not solely
contained within the artwork itself? Why can’t art
just art speak for itself?

• I’m a painter – Why is Luc Tuymans so influential
for students of painting over recent years?

• I want to discuss the relationship between by my
painting practice and photography.

• Can a lecture be art? I was thinking of giving one
as part of my degree show.

• I wish to discuss my artistic ideas in relation to
the the concept of “site-specificity”

• I want to make a point about some stuff in society
that concerns me. Are my artistic ideas a good way
of doing that?

• I wish to discuss how the concepts of “the ordinary”
and “the everyday” are central to my artistic ideas.

THE TUESDAY SELF LED SEMINAR - TIMETABLE

Month Tuesday
/date Description
October 6th o Introduction & hand out of brief.
o Discuss idea of a blog for seminar info and
communication. Student help is needed for
this. Address is:
http://thetuesdayseminar.blogspot.com/


October

13th

o Deadline for hand–in of proposals.
o Email proposals to ronanmccrea@eircom.net
before this date

o Short group discussion on any issues
arising from process of writing proposals.


October

20th

o Selected presentation topics announced.
o Timetable of seminars handed out.
o Short discussion with group on research and
preparation required for presentations.
o Tutorial with group A, on the following
week seminar.(full group can sit in on
this) Recommend reading.

October 27th
o Seminar 01 with Group A
o Tutorial with Group B on the next seminar

November 3rd REVIEW WEEK – NO SEMINAR

November

10th o Seminar 02 with Group B
o Tutorial with group C on next seminar.

November 17th “Work in Progress CRIT” – NO SEMINAR

November

24th o Seminar 03 with Group C
o Tutorial with group D on next seminar.

December 1st
o Seminar 04 with Group D
o Tutorial with group E on next seminar.

December 8th
o Seminar 05 with Group E
o Tutorial with group F on next seminar

December 13th
o Seminar 06 with Group F
o Wrap up discussion and evaluation by
Participants.

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