tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206373238418288113.post7329315807023118222..comments2023-08-19T10:04:08.922+01:00Comments on Thought • Art • Representation: Experiments in Situated KnowledgeJim Hamlynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488331333061422244noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206373238418288113.post-88480315200279211102011-07-29T21:30:43.543+01:002011-07-29T21:30:43.543+01:00Hey Bronwyn, great to hear from you.
Probably the...Hey Bronwyn, great to hear from you.<br /><br />Probably the most provocative and interesting thought to grapple with in relation to our thinking on this subject has been to contrast the idea of a knowledgeable person compared with an experienced one. Perhaps it makes no sense to talk of 'authenticity' here but the comparison does seem to draw out something really interesting about the importance of embodied temporal experience as a integrated collection of narratives and applied understandings as opposed to a potentially inert compendium of facts and data relationships. Of course, these aren't in any way mutually exclusive but to characterise them thus seems to highlight the problem more clearly.<br /> <br />I can see your struggle and it's certainly a difficult one because we either have to expand what we mean by 'knowledge' or else we have to accept that knowledge only forms a fragment of what art embodies and neither of these strategies seems in any way satisfactory. The currently popular emphasis upon 'new knowledge' and 'contributions to knowledge' smacks of a very particular kind of instrumental vision more suited to science. it's a kind of tyranny of knowledge as if this were the only valuable product of human agency. That's not to say that art doesn't produce knowledge but rather that this isn't its primary goal and therefore whenever we scrutinise the contribution of art on this checker board art comes out looking very meagre. If we were to ask a different question, one that sought the contribution to meaning or experience then I think we'd find it infinitely easier to encapsulate what we do and science and its associated world of facts figures would suffer a very similar struggle as we currently face.Jim Hamlynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16488331333061422244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206373238418288113.post-55759215334265623732011-07-29T12:07:52.903+01:002011-07-29T12:07:52.903+01:00Hi jim,
Enjoy your time in Australia - would love...Hi jim,<br /><br />Enjoy your time in Australia - would love to read your paper if possible - I am struggling with this very subject in writing up my PhD methodology...<br /><br />What is interesting is how to 'evidence' how art makes knowledge or contributes to knowledge... so am particularly wising I could be at the conference.<br /><br />BronBronwynhttp://www.bronwynplatten.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206373238418288113.post-53627077745281418232011-06-23T05:54:34.004+01:002011-06-23T05:54:34.004+01:00Congrats Jim!Congrats Jim!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206373238418288113.post-25348763070829261882011-06-21T15:52:57.946+01:002011-06-21T15:52:57.946+01:00Thanks Craig, actually I was working my way throug...Thanks Craig, actually I was working my way through the recent e-flux but hadn't read the editorial. It's really interesting and relevant, as is the link it gives to a previous edition specifically on the subject of art education. <br />Brilliant! <br />Thanks a million.Jim Hamlynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16488331333061422244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206373238418288113.post-47539612665177347952011-06-21T13:12:52.270+01:002011-06-21T13:12:52.270+01:00Thought you might be interested to read this month...Thought you might be interested to read this month's journal (although i suspect you already have)<br />http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/242<br />Congratulations on the conference selection!<br />Craig BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com