More GCOP thoughts

It’s important because it has such a complete impact on my practice. The entire nature of my practice.

Annette Messager – Images of the Everyday
Hamish Fulton – Mapping

As time goes on, I will begin to learn more what is and isn’t relevant.
Clues,
Evidence.
It is natural that the process + criteria for selection should mutate over the course of this project.
What is it now?

I need to:
Understand current criteria.
What it means for the criteria to change + grow.
The significance of archiving the everyday – and – the significance of being selective with the everyday.
My own practice. How this impact my art practice. My actions + decisions.
What ‘map of self’ means in this context.
What is my question??
                        -Well, I’m interested in how this kind of process influences my practice. But I’m not just interested in that.
The significance/possibility of archiving and making selections within the realm to the everyday, and the influence of this process of selection upon art practice.
Mapping. Forms of documentation/presentation. Appropriateness of these forms.

Criteria of what this is not.
What am I not interested in documenting/talking about?
What isn’t relevant – and why isn’t it?

-I am not interested in my interactions with other people.
-I am not interested in what’s in the news at the moment.
-I am not interested in my bank balance.
                        External things (What is the qualification for ‘external’?)
-I am not interested in the weather. (I thought I was, but I’m not)

The content of the artefact is kind of irrelevant. Or, it’s relevant to my life, and to my practice... But in terms of Time, Space + the Everyday, what’s really, really important is my interpretation of the artefact. The way that I evaluate it + decide its worth. The way that I place it, contextually, and the impact that this pattern of thinking has on my practice.

(Johnstone, S (2008) The Everyday. London: Whitechapel) Page 85

“Archives:
The second cluster of questions concerns the (related) problem of the archive. At one level this might be thought of as a simple practical question: what could an archive of everyday life include? What could it possibly exclude? For instance, if an archive of the everyday were to include a potentially infinite number of items, then how could it be organized? The question of what to include in an everyday life archive raises questions about the appropriate form for collating ‘everyday life’ material...
So even at the level of collecting and organizing date, more fundamental problems intrude, namely the problem of making the everyday meaningful in a way that doesn’t imprison it at the level of the particular, or doesn’t eradicate the particularity of the particular by taking off into abstract generalities.”

When does the process of selection/documentation/representation take over from the content of the archive (Do I even care about the content of the archive??), and does it matter if it does?
Questions within my own practice also.
SELECTION – CONTENT.