TRACINGS
REFLECTIVE NOTES: 10 hours between 30 & 01 May 2022
"WAYS INTO WITTGENSTEIN" WITH MICHAEL BOWDIDGE
PART I
Icebreaker/warm-up exercise, "LOOK AND TELL HOW IT REALLY IS"
List your...
Favorite color: orange
Favorite animal, plant or other living thing: trees
Favorite food: mushrooms (umami)
Now fill in the following "blanks" with your answers from above:
My practice is...orange (well, not really, right now it is very “fleshy” colored...all shades of flesh tones)
My research is like a…tree (yes, it is sort of tree-like in that it is rooted in the earth...paint/pigment-based, so literally it is earthy. And it is leafy in that right now my paintings have lots of organic greens, and my creative process in general, does reach up to the sky...my head is often "in the clouds" so to speak. There is also a bark-like element to my research praxis in that I typically do seek a metaphoric and literal top or final "layer".
My thesis will taste like…mushrooms (yes, I can say it is generally sautéed mushroom-y and umami. Savory, I think, is a pretty good fit to describe my current body of work, so it works.)
PART II
SLIDE LECTURE- A Brief History of Wittgenstein's Life (see ppt)
Read Wittgenstein On Rules and Private Language, and on “aspect blindness”
Read American philosopher Saul Kripke
Read Malcom Ashmore-The Reflexive Thesis (download on is on my desktop, courtesy Tina FM)
PART III
‘GRAMMAR TELLS US WHAT KIND OF OBJECT ANYTHING IS' exercise
1. Step away from your computer and spend 5 minutes looking at and reflecting upon the visible grammar (structure) of the room that you are in.
2. Find a way to disrupt this grammar so that it reveals something about it.
3.Then find a way to document this disruption so that you can share it with the group.
