Tutorial with Jill 14/3/18

NOTES OF TUTORIAL - JILL JOURNEAUX/CATHY MACTAGGART

Wednesday 14 March 2018

Good tutorial which left me feeling upbeat.  I’m coming back on stream after the grey start to the year. 

I showed Jill my latest concertina sketchbook on the subject of Public Toilets.  It’s always encouraging when someone likes your work, and to see how they physically handle it.  I fully extend it on a long table or the floor, to see it complete.  Art class friends read it as a traditional book, one page at a time.  Jill caressed and manipulated it, standing upright, into waves and circles.  Sketchbooks are tactile and it was great to see it handled.

I’d been playing with a new form of poetry to add to the sketchbook, for an exhibition that it might fit – the Festival of Bath.  I’ve not done any poetry before, but felt confident to try the Oulipo style as it’s a word game.   I read my poem out loud for the first time, and it needed the inflexion of the punctuation. (I read it out in art class today as well and the class understood my interpretation as well).

I said I’d been snowed in for a while in Scotland, so a 4 day trip turned into 10 days, but during this time I’d also been at the Women’s Library.  (Forgot to print Glasgow Herald article about Women’s Library – Will add to portfolio for PRP development plan).

We discussed my chosen artists and why I’d chosen them.  Jill is not sure why Cornelia Parker is feminist – she’s not, but I admire the way Parker has used prisoners to stitch the majority of the Magna Carta, and clearly names all participants in the credits.  Now my arm is less sore, I need to manipulate the ordering of the artists and explain why I link/cluster them and how themes develop.  I might need to add in some more artists – maybe Andrea Deszo and Nancy Spero.  I like Deszo’s subversive remarks about her Mother’s view on life; and Spero’s definitions and use of the Archetype.

We discussed progress on the Cleaners’ sampler.  I’d spoken to Andrew, the Cleaning Supervisor at Liverpool St.  I’d also spoken to (and documented) Interserve HR Call Centre, who said it was up to the local supervisor to authorise.  We debated the best time to gather data – whether to interview on nights when the staff might have more time – and decided to conduct interviews on day shifts (otherwise a new Ethics Form would be required).  (After the meeting – Andrew returns to day shifts from Monday 19/3/18).

Actions:

-       Print Glasgow Herald article and file.

-       Contact London Underground friends and get Oulipo poem printed in New Johnston typeface to add to sketchbook.

-       Evolve literature review to compare and contrast attributes of different artists.

-       Go to Dundas St Gallery for PV for Women’s History Month and document/file.

-       Meet Andrew, Interserve Supervisor after 19/3/18 to define parameters of proposal and fix schedule.