Open AccessCraft, Relational Aesthetics and Ethics of Care
Author(s) -
Belinda MacGill
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
art/research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-3771
DOI - 10.18432/ari29413
Subject(s) - craft , active listening , aesthetics , perception , relation (database) , object (grammar) , psychology , sociology , epistemology , visual arts , art , computer science , communication , philosophy , database , artificial intelligence
A conceptual framework for looking and listening operates within aesthetic and affective moments when crafting objects. Assembling and modifying Sea Balls into arranged composition is my craft process that I use to access a state of mind play. Each found and modified object represents a key theoretical framework that I connect and re-organize in relation to each other to produce new ways of perceiving. Considerations of Massumi, Fish and Jameson’s (2002) notion of perception and how I experience affect through embodiment in the moment of re-crafting and re-assembling items is central to the practice. Emergent ideas occur through re-crafting found objects in conjunction with broader considerations of relational aesthetics.