Jen Franklin
Autonomy, ambiguity, and authorship
Art schooled - Jamie Cole
Passive
- Didactic
- Tutor= expert
- Student = passive
- Outcomes = certain conformity
- Alienating- fails to acknowledge difference
Responsive and Activity based
- Directive
- Tutor - trainer
- Student = responder
- Knowledge fixed by tutors experience
- Imitation
Active and Experimental
- Negotiated
- Tutor = facilitator, supporter, negotiator
- Student = contributor
- Social activity/ practice
- Critical thinking
- Intelligent thinking
Heuristic
- Empowering
- Validating
- Tutor = coordinator
- Student = researcher, inventor, discoverer
- Experimentation
- Unknown findings/ hypotheses.
Open
- Open
- Tutor = attendant
- Student = director
- Chaotic
- Can invite stereotypical responses and rejection or learning
Grapefruit - Yoko Ono
Lin Yutang - The importance of living
Courtney (1994) - John Burningham
19 ways of looking at wang wei - eliot weinberger
/o - Jen Franklin
The death of the author (1967) - Roland Barthes
Nick - 3rd year tutor
Diary of an autonomous collective: Nous Vous 2006-2019
- Visual art collective
- Graphic design studio
- Illustrators
- Publishing imprint
- Educators
- Musicians
- Performers
- Friends
- Housemates
Beginnings - working together on a degree show
- Drawing club
- Self publishing
- Events
- Tom leaves to concentrates on music
- Design studio
- Visual art projects
- Illustration
- Workshops
- Residencies
- Studio practice
- Self publishing
- Imprint
- Character design
New formation - agency/ studio/ ?
Q&A
How do you tread the line between professional relationship and friendship?
- If we get annoyed with each other, we change what we are working on.
How important is autonomy as an illustrator?
- Helps you not be stuck
How do we maintain our autonomy as art students?
- Try to put yourself into projects, what you want to do