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Faculty of Fine Arts: B-FA F303A Contextual Studies: Professional Practice

FACULTY OF FINE ARTS 2013/2014!!!!Name : APARAJITHA VAASUDEV Student No. : 13624 Class : BAFAN5D !Title and summary of Project !In this age of the information revolution, issues of time and memory have become an obsession in contemporary culture. The world seems to be struggling with, and succumbing to, the influence memory in every aspect of its existence, from grocery lists to accounts to genealogy. There seems to be a constant, if unobtrusive, demand for tools and stimuli that can help us to remember. !Objective !The imperfections of memory have always fascinated me – the gaps and blanks in it, and the quality of evanescence of our memories; the different sense memories involved in an experience, and the layered visuals that appear in our minds when we try to remember; and how sometimes, only certain words, images or other memories that we have associated with an experience at the time of experiencing it, trigger our memories of the latter. I want to explore this subject in my practice and I want to use mixed media paintings to bring out the intangibility and flux, as well as the coalescence of different pieces of knowledge, that is the characteristic of memory. !Rationale !I feel that the significance of this subject lies in the fact that memory is, and has always been, vital for the knowledge of the self and of the world. It is one of the most vital of our faculties, the apparatus that calls for recognition (re-cognition) without which the powers of cognition itself remain transient and unframed. Given the mutability and, if I may use the term, fallibility of memory, it is interesting that the stories that are told and the claims that are made in the name of memory can alter people's understanding of the world, and the ways in which they act in or upon that world. !Outcome !Several medium-sized mixed media paintings. !Methods and Time Line !Use a semester table to create an outline of a weekly schedule and how you intend to organise the specific areas of research. !List the methodologies and materials you are planning to use to prepare for your works. List the kind of methods you will be using to explore and finalise your works with. !

Professional Practice (Semester I): PROPOSAL GUIDELINE!

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Faculty of Fine Arts: B-FA F303A Contextual Studies: Professional Practice

!!References !Louise Bourgeois Tracy Emin Rachel Whiteread Frida Kahlo Nan Goldin Miyako Ishiyuchi (concept, visual) Felix Gonzales Torres !Thesis Outline !In my thesis, I would like to explore the need for memory in human life, bombarded as it is by the inexorable deluge of information in media, and how this return to the past might be a reaction to an ever-expanding, omnipresent electronic archive, which renders cognitive memory, the instigator of its emotional counterpart, obsolete. !Bibliography !List readings, videos, films and any areas of interest that help to inform you of the work you are making. Example: Bell, John. What is Painting? Representation and Modern Art. Thames and Hudson, New York 1999