Making Art: The Game (part of doing together 24)
Making Art: The Game
Workshop with Karen Woodfield as part of doing together 24
Thursday 4 April 2024
"Making Art: The Game" is a research project that encompasses my life as an artist-researcher, art tutor, and board game player. The game aims to challenge our ideas about making and games by inciting variability, alternative combinations, and strange convergences in an open-ended experience. The game guides the making process by creating constraints and guidance, sometimes to the point of breakage.
The game can be played in solo mode or in teams and has collaborative variants. Once the objects are made, the player is encouraged to continue working with them to create new pieces through casting, moulding, photography, drawing, printing, and more. The extent to which the game dictates the making process depends on the experience level of the artist, and informing the making process is a good definition. The artist must try their best to follow the rules and not cheat. The aim is to work quickly to reduce overthinking. The game opens up the artist to vulnerabilities by being honest with themselves, embracing error, and their unconscious or innate making skills. The artist records their feelings and responses as the game progresses, which becomes part of the work.
doing together 24
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.
Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.
Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.
