The beginning...

Contemporary Art and Critical Writing: HAA 1906

I am excited by this project.

We have been set the task of developing 'a general knowledge of contemporary art and its representations and criticism.' We are to 'build a specialised portfolio of investigations and critical writing both collected by you (us) and written by you (us)'

The portfolio and discussion is to be based on the following:
- A private/ commercial gallery including artist run spaces.
- A public or National Gallery, or Public Art Project.
- One artist. The artist is to be tracked through professional life, exhibitions, statements, cocktail parties etcetera.
- One art journal.
- A medium

The 'artist' may be a group of artists, a fashion designer etcetera.

The first thing for me to think about is:
- What makes a public institution.
- What public institution excites me the most.
- What artist excites me the most and who I would enjoy/ get the most out of studying.
- If I am to stick with what I already know and am interested in and develop this further and learn more, or if I am to run with a new/ different idea.

-I have a few ideas, in which i will carry this out.
I want the medium which I study to almost form a piece of work itself.
I want to use the way I study and present ideas to take on the medium's role.

For now I will research and I shall update as soon as I have more knowledge on what it is I want to do.

I feel this is a very exciting project which I potentially can learn a lot from and have fun with, therefore to not mess it up from stage one would be a good idea.
Time, research and not rushing is how to resist downfall.