Living in the Material World
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Hansen, L. (2013). Living in the Material World. Studies in Material Thinking, 9 http://www.materialthinking.org/papers/126Sammendrag
Abstract: This article is written from the perspective of a maker. It focuses on the
maker’s reflections on and during making. The artist/author records her process
during the making of
Volum, a development project completed in 2011. Volum was an
art project, and the focus in this paper is on the process of making; the experiments in
various textiles and techniques; the agony of choosing and rejecting and the search
for visual effects able to communicate the expressions aimed at. Additional material
is included from a separate study of artists’ and designers’ processes undertaken in
1995. That study aimed at discovering how artists made use of their knowledge in a
specific assignment, how their work evolved from the beginning to the finished products,
and how they reflected on their processes. An examination of the author’s own artistic
process, alongside those of participants from the previous study, revealed many similarities. That is, the ways in which we talk and think about making processes, and how
we use and enhance our knowledge and experiences in action in the studio, are comparable. The aim of this reflective, praxis paper is to find ways of making some of our tacit
knowledge explicit.