002 mapping your reflective practice
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This document outlines various contexts to consider when mapping and understanding an artistic practice, including social/political, personal, critical/theoretical, historical, geographical, institutional, and cultural contexts. It provides examples of questions to reflect on for each context, such as how the social context impacts production and audiences, whether work relates to critical debates or theories, how knowledge is situated historically or through educational/professional backgrounds, and how place or materials influence work. Mappers are encouraged to identify which contexts are most important and overlapping for their practice and how their practice may change or evolve over time.
002 mapping your reflective practice
- 2. your making - contextual framework social political personal critical/theoretical historical geographical institutional cultural
- 3. social context Making and seeing an image always takes place in a social context. The way it is seen and how it is seen are culturally constructed. The time and place the work is made Audience for work - who is included/excluded/implicated on the ways an image is produced, circulated and consumed The role of the audience
- 4. political context gender - race - ethnicity - sexual orientation - class - disability - religion specific political issue broad political issue
- 5. personal context Biography - narrative of the self particular issues - memories What motivates/ drives you? Your particular skills as an artist/ designer/writer/photographer What strategies do you use when the work is not going well? How do you relate to the forces that in part condition what you know and in which you make things?
- 6. critical/theoretical context Does your work relate to particular critical debates about contemporary art and design practices? particular critical debates Is your work informed by/engaging with/ contesting particular theoretical frameworks/issues? particular theories
- 7. historical context Understand how/whether your practice relates to a tradition, with a history Work that is specific to a particular time How knowledge relates to periods in time.
- 8. geographical context Local, regional, national, international, global. Is the place where you make your work important to the work? Do you make your work in relation to a particular place? studio home church city rural cyberspace
- 9. institutional context UAL – CCW – MA Course Your educational background/experience Your professional background/experience Your family background/experience What is the role of the institution?
- 10. cultural context In it’s broadest sense - ‘a whole way of life’ - this relates to all the other categories. More specifically, what works of artists, designers, writers, filmmakers, photographers, musicians are important to you and your work - why? What activity do you engage with?
- 11. mapping your practice Any other contexts worth considering? Importance Overlapping change - evolution of practice
- 13. your turn your making - contextual framework social political personal critical/theoretical historical geographical institutional cultural