July 15 2011 Reclaim the Mind, Friction Research Issue #4 Essay: Alice Georgina Thickett ::: Thinking, researching and creating work :::
Thinking, researching and creating work, . I used to think that there were certain ways or steps to becoming a real artist, and I hoped to identify my own art practice. I have been trying to work, as I assumed a 'real artist' would. But, what is art? what is an artist? and what exactly is an artist's practice? If I don't understand what art is, how can I ever hope to make something which is considered to be art? The word art is actually defined in the dictionary as human creativity, and artist as a person who does anything very well, with a feeling of form. Does this mean anything any person creates, could be considered to be art? - I think briefly of Duchamp's Urinal. I feel that these simple definitions are hinting at an art version of the famous statement of Rene Descartes, philosopher, "I think therefore I am." Perhaps, "I create therefore I am an artist." It is simply not enough to say that if you are an artist the things you create are pieces of art. In the contemporary art world collectors often make the decision as to what is a good or innovative piece of artwork; but what of the artists that are never acknowledged? Are they not creating art as well? Keith Tyson is an artist who uses science and mathematical looking methods, such as using formulaic language, the periodic table and equations, to try and make sense of his own way of working, "He describes his art as a form of experimentation, comparing his studio to a laboratory and his artwork to a series of research projects." [i] ... Alice Georgina Thickett is currently a Nottingham based artist. After a challenging art degree she uses her work to question the critical nature of art using conceptual methods and text. Using logical processes to disect theoretical questions, she hopes to present new types of answers that are at the same time pedantic and illogical: http://www.howtobecomeanartist.co.uk See: http://nictoglobe.com/new/query10.html?d=rtmfr42011/Alice%20Thickett&f=Art%20Exists & http://nictoglobe.com/frictionresearch Enjoy reading! -- Andreas Maria Jacobs - Editor w: http://nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl "Bourgois Culture should be destroyed" :::
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