interviewing+artists

RESEARCH METHODS LECTURE

WILSON’S HALL, CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ART 18th NOVEMBER 3-5pm

INTERVIEWING ARTISTS: What artists say about themselves

This lecture will be in two parts: Rebecca Fortnum is a visual artist and author of the book of interviews, //Contemporary Women Artists, in their own words// (2007, IB Tauris). She will be delivering a paper discussing the function of visual artists’ words in relation to their visual art practices and processes. The paper examines how documentation of an artist’s narrative can prove useful in pinning down the values embedded in the artist’s thinking and, quite possibly (though by no means directly), in the artists’ work. //The internal quality audit; how artists judge themselves// looks specifically at a recording of a discussion the artist Vong Phaophanit had with his collaborator Claire Oboussier in 2007. REBECCA FORTNUM is Reader in Fine Art at C-C-W
 * //The internal quality audit; how artists judge themselves//**

Bill Furlong established Audio Arts in 1973, and since then have been recording artists’ voices. This has involved the use of the interview as a strategy yet he prefers to regard his approach as that of a conversation. We learn about people and are informed about their activities, personality, character, capabilities, intelligence, humour and so on, by engaging in conversation. This activity is complex and multi layered. Not only do we hear words with prescribed meanings but we ‘read between the lines’ we interpret we assist in the construction of meanings. With examples of recordings of Duchamp, Beuys, Hamilton, Cage, Emin, Gillick, Gilbert and George etc., //The Artists Interview um the Spoken Word um The Written Word// will argue for an acceptance of the artists voice as the primary source of knowing what they do and how they think. He is currently showing in, //See This Sound//, at the Lentos Museum Linz, Austria and in March 2010 Phaidon Press will publish his book, //Speaking of Art, Four Decades of Art in Conversation//. PROF WILLIAM FURLONG is an Emeritus Professor at UAL (Wimbledon College of Art). He is an Artist and the Director of Audio Arts
 * //The Artists Interview um the Spoken Word um The Written Word//**

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