artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

mumbling to myself aloud with English butcheries, in public, at times it is embarrassing.

Art as an Accounting of Oneself. Reflecting artist into a Judith Butler essay.

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research ramblings, response to texts

Butler’s text, “An Account of Oneself” in Judith Butler in Converstation: Analyzing Texts and Talk of Everyday Life (2008), for me calls to mind the fact that I can never keep my fingernails clean. As artist this unfeminine trait of dirty nails does not counter my legibility as feminine...

staking out the ground, a research framework. who or how is artist realized

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Defining a ground, a research framework—who is artist based on conventions of doing, vocational practices? Artist’s doings (art making?) realize into social space the invocation of assessment of communal modules of knowing and doing through material form, processes, subject matter, theme, and/or point of contact...

loaded gender implications — project fumble + reconsiderations

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research, research ramblings

“Undefeated you will have nothing to say but more of the same. Defeated you will stand at the door of your house to welcome the unknown, putting behind you all that is known…Defeated, exhausted, and helpless you will perhaps go a little bit further…But helplessness...

To be natural is such a very hard pose to keep up

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

2003 soundscape: not sure if you are awake – george you pushed the wrong button again

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Our, Art 5463, readings in regard to the way media shapes us called to mind a sound assemblage I composed in 2003. sound assemblage comp [found sounds]1

the repetitive stylized act of doing dumpster dive, doing artist, doing gender

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research, research ramblings

Holiday schmoliday! I’ve got things to contemplate, reconfigure and loosely codify as a kind of academic cognitive capitol. Actually my notions of artist identity constituted, writing praxis as a possible form of artist resilience, realization and alteration of thought communities is far more to me than...

deconstructing a few academic defense mechanisms and distorted thinking with a gender bent and my bum on a donald judd artwork (wink)

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art, mundane ramblings

the following is an account of my own humorous and dysfunctional defense mechanisms (rational) that help me hold myself together in the face of the threatening challenge of scholarly writing. here is how it sounds in my head as a sort of fearless moral inventory: I...

COMPRESSING Doing artist as doing gender: artist identity constitution in the wake of vocational troubling [and trauma]

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research, research ramblings

[COMPRESSION OF RESEARCH DIRECTION TO 500 WORDS–a practice at clarity through reduction–plus a end not on possible connection to trauma research] There is a trend that visual artists’ who enact an undoing, a troubling, [1] of conventions in their work—whether through materiality, form, process, presentation, subject matter,...

Doing artist as doing gender: artist identity troubling in the wake of vocational troubling

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research, research ramblings

[REWRITING AS I RESOLVE MY LARGER RESEARCH DIRECTIONS] There is a trend that visual artists’ who enact an undoing, a troubling, [1] of conventions in their work—whether through materiality, form, process, presentation, subject matter, or theme—also have a writing practice. I believe this practice arises...

I wonder if I make Judith Butler laugh or gnash her teeth.

Ha, note how I have encoded this wonder as a binary in which Butler might find herself troubled because she neither fully fits with fits of laughter or garish gnarling and gnashing of teeth in reaction to how I flippantly bastardize her important ideas.

artist as forming in troubling and then being compelled to be about troubling troublings. [got it?]

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mundane ramblings, research

I find it paradoxically funny that I desire a categorically FIXED definition of troubling from Judith Butler’s texts when all her writings point to the notion that the categorical is inherently complex and unstable. Because identity is unstable and complex what is destabilizing, troubling, to one may not be...

GENDER TROUBLING? or am I just bull shitting myself in order to identity the function of writing for the visual artist?

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research ramblings

There is a trend that visual artists’ who enact an undoing (altering or obstructing) of conventions, whether of materiality, form, process, subject matter or theme, in their work also have a writing practice. I believe this practice arises to counter the troubling the artist experiences in identity...

[academic textabation] why all this pink? good question

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femininity kathy

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mundane ramblings

Not that anyone has yet to ask me “Why all the pink?” in the interdisciplinary project propaganda for the first encounters with one’s own femininity, yet I have been second guessing myself on the calls Barbie pink and swishy motif. I suppose I had a few Barbie dolls when I...

literary call for entries — flash nonfiction + poetry — deadline dec 15, 2015

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First encounters with one’s own femininity DEADLINE: December 15, 2015 JUROR: Dr. Katie Cortese, Texas Tech University Associate Professor Author of collection Girl Power & Other Short-Short Stories UPLOAD ENTRIES TO SUBMITTABLE Call for flash* nonfiction [personal essay] and poetry on the theme of first encounters with one’s own...

project :: first encounters with one’s own femininity

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Project website is http://onesownfemininity.com and literary submissions are accepted via OVERVIEW The interdisciplinary grant title, Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, called to mind the fact (or at least based on my unlimbered capacity and imaginings) that a female can only see herself, her physical...

making bad art

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mundane ramblings, process

The risk of not making daily is that each making spurt then places you back at your beginning. You must then rework through making bad art for a short duration before your body finds the rhythms in making again, before your body re-orients to the...

Academic Textabation: Bending citations—I try to ACT in the gap

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response to texts

Bending citations—I try to ACT in the gap[i] A tangential response to Brandon Joseph’s The Gap and the Frame* about Robert Rauschenberg I pass a dumpster and register its contents, sheet upon sheet of gymnasium wrestling floor matts. There is an awkward moment when everything I...

paris selfie 2005

doing life — the discrepancies between intent and outcome

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mundane ramblings

I find it disconcerting that I cannot get my internal sense of care or consideration to juxtapose contiguously with what spills from my lips. Instead I become undone as I see reflected misreadings that suggest my intent and words are far apart. Sigh. In studio...

Doing artist is as doing gender: in the face of chaffing conventions and bending citations

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proposals, research

Doing artist as doing gender RESEARCH QUESTIONS Can corollaries of performative constitution and maintenance of gender identity with that of doing artist shed light on the transgenre practices of seminal visual artists, artists who make as well as write? There is an observable trend that...

Agnes Martin :: Gender-linked language practices paralleled in art object

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proposals, research

PROJECT IDEATION From Freud’s slips of the tongue[1] onward, language has been understood as a social mechanism that carries traces of our conscious and unconscious beliefs, fears, patterns of thinking, social positioning, gender associations and personalities.[2] These same beliefs, fears, patterns of thinking, social positioning, gender...

…and you will be “right” and happy…a note from my grandmother to my mom

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mundane ramblings

On the inside cover of the 699 yellow paged hard bound tome of Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Ettiquette: A Guide to Gracious Living I found the following note to my mom from her mother dated 1957: May this answer all your problems! So you will...

art foundations teaching portfolio

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teaching portfolio

Art Foundation WASH Teaching Porfolio0

portfolio

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New updates to wordPress made portfolio nonfunctional. Currently in process of rebuilding Please visit my google album https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPUHY7pG-qwpWasdZKK8GBu1byuMK4hqDrMVn0bWL_ah8–096t-aeoF7TE-Ge8yA?key=bGQxWnNIYVc1Vk85eDI2WlhaWU93V3FiSDlWbDZR 2006-2015 [pi_ifg data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ data_shortcodeid=’pi_ifg’ pi_user_id=”114984726605502146384″ pi_album_id=”5607160606093028097″ pi_sort_album=”standard” pi_type=”picasa” pi_style=”tiled_gallery” pi_slideshow_limit=”” pi_maximun_width=”” pi_slideshow_autoplay=”” pi_slideshow_single_item=”0″ pi_slideshow_items=”5″ pi_slideshow_items_desktop=”5″ pi_slideshow_items_tablet=”2″ pi_slideshow_items_mobile=”2″ pi_theme=”light” pi_thumbnail_alignment=”justified” pi_thumbnail_lazyload=”true”...

slow bending of citations

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research, research ramblings

is exaggerating, playing with, accelerating the slow bendings of particular citations the dominant function of artists from a social stand point. is that the key role artists fill? if artists generally are less inhibited in terms of social conventions does this not simply equate to...

slowly bending citations — the language of female visual artists

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research ramblings

i love judith butler’s turn of phrase “slowly bending citations” as it relates to the destabilization of normative practices from within. If creativity, the capital C type of creativity, which can be defined as practices that result in paradigm shifts, in scientists and artist correlates...

is “doing artist” the equivalent of “doing gender”?

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research, research ramblings

Tangent [Julia Kristeva’a intertextual ADD] of the dissertation direction sort… I am currently reading The Topless Cellist (on Charlotte Moorman) for a class and for another class I am perusing the article “A Performative-Performance Analytical Approach: Infusing Butlerian Theory Into the Narrative-Discursive Method” by Tracy Morison and...

breaching this space aloud

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mundane ramblings

for me the most effective way to proof my writing is to read it out loud. i usually don’t. despite what appears to be exhibitionism on my fb status updates and my documentation of my art practice, my life habits perpetually move me to the...

“research becomes an alternative to self cannibalization” Lopate

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mundane ramblings, research

my playpen :: anti-self cannibalization :: it is my tendency to jump in the deep end to see if I can explore this realm while learning to efficiently navigate a pool and a swim/floating method I haven’t previously used. Things I have been thinking about...

My suspicion is that visual artists’ writing, like expressive-experimental writing, has some form of psychological resilience and/or realization function.

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research, research ramblings

Thinking… BIG PICTURE: My research revolves around a pattern in which visual artists who are seminal (maintain a lifelong making practice, are prolific and are recognized in the art world) also tend to have a writing practice. My suspicion is that visual artists’ writing, like...

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