October 2022
The Mess of Research
Action Items/Questions
Mind Maps/ Venn Diagrams
Nexus of assemblage/collage/bricolage/sculpture/mosaic
10 Definitions of “Mosaic”
Respond, react, argue each one
“Draws upon traditions of assembling fragments to create an image”
When and how did Mosaic become liberated? Has it?
Research liberation of sculpture and painting from the traditional roles of architecture and decorative applications
What can “mosaic” do outside of the architectural and decorative contexts
Mosaic as an expressive art form
What are the parallels of mosaic to painting and sculpture?
Read “The Poetics of Fragmentation”
What are the possibilities of recomposition and reconfiguration?
How does the medium become transformed into a malleable art form?
What is Zombie Modernism in relationship to mosaic?
Post all diagrams, Mind Maps, etc on Blog
SLOPPY CRAFT!! -Elaine Cheasley Paterson
Sloppy craft the content of an artwork is the primary driver not the medium. quote the ability of computer screens the infiltration of digital media into so many aspects of life and the availability of seemingly easy perfection that demanded the opposite – the wish for more sensorial experience, materiality and the mark of the hand, privilege foible and imperfection irregularity and uncertainty. Page 26
Copy craft implies that the work is either well-crafted or slappy a term coined in 2007 by Anne Wilson. What is a polarizing term which may expand meanings in a post disciplinary discourse. Sloppy craft post disciplinary and the crafts drawers together Theory practice and pedagogy. Sloppy craft is inaccessible term the broken images of unsuccessful experiments with materials and process. it is also socially critical end its concerns of both the art and craft worlds as there is a disagreement between them.
Who is WebbKeane
Namita GuptaI Wiggers- Focus on process rather than outcome emerges from a desire to take into account how people experience their lives and where materials come from within the global economy. she also considers how much Euros are manipulated by the studio maker as well as by the sweated laborer and how craft forms connections among people.
The Process Art Movement -Yuichiro Kojiro’s Forms in Japan, Richard Sierra's verb list compilation; actions to relate to oneself, material, place and process. Kojiro Attempted to develop a classification system for the traditional crafts of Japan such as forms of uniontime finding weaving, forms of collection forms of arrangement such as peering scattering discarding forms of fluidity this is dropping flowing smearing. Sloppy craft as the use of calculated sloppy technical execution along with its appearance in traditional craft materials as part of contemporary conceptual art craft practice. The term post disciplinary rather than multi or interdisciplinarity to refer to this crossover approach .Craft is traditionally aligned with skill. Charles Jencks understood skill as open ended a way of thinking through problems in 6 situations necessary to expedient bricolage and in fact sloppy craft does contain elements of bricolage especially evident in the works of Josh Vaught Allison Mitchell or Mike Kelly. P.6
Craft is Skillful manipulation of technique vs art skillful manipulation of of ideas.
ORIGIN OF MOSAIC
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French mosaïque, from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum, re-formation of Late Latin musīvum (opus), Latin musēum, musaeum “mosaic work,” of obscure origin; variants may show an assumed relationship with Greek mouseîon “shrine of the Muses, museum” by analogy with archī(v)um “archive” though classical Greek word is not attested in the sense “mosaic”; see museum, archive - Dictionary.com
Mosaic definitions:
a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.
an individual (especially an animal) composed of cells of two genetically different types.
a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns, also : the process of making it
a picture or design made in mosaic
: something resembling a mosaic- a mosaic of visions and daydreams and memories— Lawrence Shainberg
: an organism or one of its parts composed of cells of more than one genotype : CHIMERA sense
: any of numerous virus diseases of plants characterized by diffuse light and dark green or yellow and green mottling of the foliage— compare TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS
: a composite map made of photographs taken by an aircraft or spacecraft
: the part of a television camera tube consisting of many minute photoelectric particles that convert light to an electric charge
a combination of many different parts forming one thing
of or relating to Moses or the writings, laws, and principles attributed to him: mosaic ethics
WORDS RELATED TO MOSAIC (according to dictionary.com)
Experimentations in merging the drawing with mosaic ; (EX#2)
EX #1
Embracing the Broken: Mosaic and Metaphor
Course Description Part 1
Mosaics are ‘specific’ assemblages built upon a framework or narrative. They are not collages yet they share the action/process of gathering, collecting, and reinvention. Shards, nostalgic relics and fragmented and fractured materials are fixed and set into mortar -restoring and giving new life to what was broken in the action of redemption and repair. Students will compose and create original mosaic works created with personal and collected items as well as a selection of materials provided at the workshop. A collaborative mosaic will be created and installed within the duration of the workshop. Additional topics include sourcing materials, the importance of appropriate substrates and adhesives and drawing for mosaic designs.
Course Description Part 2
Historical and contemporary references about mosaic art will include discussions on the philosophy of Wabi Sabi and the practice of kintsugi – an art form that emphasizes fractures and damage rather than disguising them. Assignments will focus on a series of mosaic ‘sketches’, creating original tesserae, or elements out of clay, and drawing “bozzetti”, or cartoons for planning larger works. Readings will include essays on process and practice by contemporary mosaic artists Ilana Shafir, Pamela Irving, and Verdiano Marzi.
Course Description Part 3
Assignments will focus on a series of mosaic ‘sketches’, creating original tesserae, or elements out of clay, and drawing “bozzetti”, or cartoons for planning larger works. Students will complete a final work incorporating the concepts and possibilities offered in this workshop.
PIRATE; ceramic, mortar on board, 2022