Samantha Stephens MFA 2023

We will be assessed later in the year

Library / Te Pikitanga exhibition from Mon 12th - Friday 17th August, 2024. Use this time to test works and plan for later exhibitions. Prep for the bollards.

Examination exhibition - 29th September - 12th October, 2024.

Examiners all available - yay!

Lecturers will need to figure out a day, time, weather is good

Use this as a springboard for the rest of the year - and to the future as an artist.

Julieanna's residual thoughts:

gathering / collecting -> Don't yet quite see what its protesting

they are powerful works but maybe I don't understand why

my analysis of artist models in my talk was responsible and surface-level but not quite a critical analysis

I have a responsibility to myself

I have a hybrid practice

Will need to write a positionality statement in my thesis

Kingsley's thoughts:

Speak to the spectrum of queerness

My experience in the community

the works that have my own words are better. I am not co-opting any messages

What are my rules?

Final bullet thoughts:

extremism

radicalisation

goofiness

whimsy

punchline

partial

off the page

can't read them

look longer

look again

tone is important

Lenny Bruce

timeliness

more rigorous

set the brief

Badges - how do they get made? Used? Make them matter.