COP3 Presentation - gentrification, class affecting the arts, working class background artist
Now that the end of the course is looming (I won’t accept reality don’t make me) I want to use CoP to explore themes I’ve been considering since the beginning of the course. It’s probably poetic.
Towards the end of last year I started moving my ideas more away from politics and towards societal research. Politics has been a driving force behind a lot of my context of practice work so far on the course, and I feel that while I have had interesting projects before, I have to be honest with my work at this stage.
POLITICS IS HARD.
And not hard to write about specifically, just a very taxing topic. And I realise that it has to be a taxing topic as it is a very important part of how the world works and how we respond to it. But after a certain point it becomes a bit overbearing and difficult to stay motivated on, as the political climate recently is incredibly bleak.
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This year I want to use this module to get away from that and explore things I enjoy without all the extra stress of analysing the political climate as I go, as towards the end of last year it became a bit of a slog.
I’ve started to look at the differing levels of society and how each one approaches the arts. Coming from a working class background to an illustration degree is something a lot of people I went to school with and grew up around don’t really seem to understand, and I conversely want to understand why. Why does illustration sometimes seem reserved for people from successful backgrounds drawing nice typography and smiley faces for use on lovely mugs and pillows and things. Why shouldn’t more people from different backgrounds be encouraged to come onto courses like ours and make weird stuff? I want to start to find out why certain people expect certain things.
