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SUMMARY:Searching and Re-searching for Practice: An Appetite - Amanda Couc
 h\, University for the Creative Arts\, Farnham
DTSTART:20150204T120000Z
DTEND:20150204T140000Z
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CONTACT:Pamela Burnard
DESCRIPTION:In 2011\, I completed a PGCE at UCA. Over the duration of the 
 course\, it invaded my time\, consumed my energies\, and completely transf
 ormed me. In the second year\, my research projects explored embodied know
 ledge\, phenomenology\, the personal\, and the body\, and in particular my
  digestive system\, which acted as a metaphor for critical reflection. Whe
 n I finished with all this new learning\, I was lost. I was adrift in the 
 woods and overwhelmed by words. Was I still an artist if I wasn’t regula
 rly making work? What work did I now want to make\, anyway? I looked back 
 along the path I had come hoping to find a trail of breadcrumbs that would
  take me back to my art practice. But there were no crumbs. I couldn’t s
 ee the way back to it. It wasn’t where I’d left it. \n\n‘Searching a
 nd Re-Searching for a Practice: An Appetite’ explores the place I found 
 myself and how I began to make work again. I found myself at the edges of 
 things\, of identities: artist\, teacher\, practitioner\, researcher\, per
 former\, cook\; of territories: fine art\, performance\, social science\, 
 biological science\, art practice\, cooking\, artistic research\, qualitat
 ive research\, linguistic\, visual\, spatial\, embodied\, and phenomenolog
 ical ways of knowing. In my talk\, I will share findings of a Teaching and
  Learning research project\, year-long auto ethnographic study that helped
  me to comprehend the new knowledge and interests I had\, and enabled me t
 o explore and demonstrate them through material\, performative\, and bodil
 y gestures and activities. I will share aspects of my art and research pra
 ctice\, particularly the ongoing ‘Reflection on Digestion’ and ‘On I
 nnards’ projects\, and discuss and demonstrate how I utilise and incorpo
 rate theory\, philosophy and other influences in the work. Finally\, in an
  attempt to perform data\, together\, student/participants and I\, will pr
 actice a phenomenological\, experiential exercise to reflect on food and l
 anguage: ingestion\, digestion\, and on embodied ways of knowing.\n\n*Aman
 da Couch* is an artist\, researcher\, and senior lecturer in Fine Art and 
 Creative Arts Education at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) Farn
 ham. A particular fascination with sticky matter and materials comes from 
 a grounding in sculpture\, whilst studying at Norwich School of Art (1995-
 8). Her time in the printmaking department at the Royal College of Art (20
 03-5)\, was spent chasing dreams of recording\, reproduction and repetitio
 n. Since this time her practice has cut across media\, straddling the doma
 ins of sculpture and performance\, the live and recorded image\, process a
 nd participation\, research and writing. She makes images\, objects\, and 
 experiences that are visceral and narrative\, in which the audience/partic
 ipants are forced to confront a real continual present. After the PGCE (20
 09-11)\, her concerns are with the interior body and digestion. Often trig
 gered by the processes and lived experiences of her own body\, she employs
  it as material as well as metaphor to explore a personal and universal se
 nse of self.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS1
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