Generating space to articulate the value of an artists' practice.

Smith, Helen

Abstract

The expertise of the artist, as a relational and social practice, is unstated in the sense that it is present but not articulated. Donald A. Schön's structure for the making of generative metaphor offers a theoretical and analytical framework for movement from the tacit into the explicit. "FOLD" is an art-work at the centre of this enquiry. It is the subject through which Schön's framework is tested to reveal new ways of valuing an artist's expertise. This project is part of a doctoral programme between Gray's School of Art and Woodend Barn arts centre, Banchory, Aberdeenshire. The author is the artist/researcher tasked to ask how the presence of an artist in an organizational context can influence, through provocation, their long-term sustainability in the light of social, economic and cultural change.

Citation

SMITH, H. 2013. Generating space to articulate the value of an artists' practice. In Nimkulrat, N., Niedderer, K. and Evans, M. (eds.) EKSIG 2013: knowing inside out: experiential knowledge, expertise and connoisseurship; proceedings of the 2013 International Design Research Society (DRS) special interest group on experiential knowledge conference (EKSIG 2013), 4-5 July 2013, Loughborough, UK. Loughborough: Loughborough University, pages 147-157. Available from: https://eksig.org/PDF/EKSIG2013Proceedings.pdf

• Conference Name: 2013 International Design Research Society (DRS) special interest group on experiential knowledge conference (EKSIG 2013)
• Conference Location: Loughborough, UK
• Start Date: Jul 4, 2013
• End Date: Jul 5, 2013
• Acceptance Date: Jun 10, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Jul 5, 2013
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2013
• Deposit Date: Mar 19, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 20, 2020
• Publisher: Loughborough University
• Pages: 147-157
• Book Title: EKSIG 2013: knowing inside out; experimental knowledge expertise and connoisseurship
• ISBN: 9781907382727
• Keywords: Generative metaphor; Visual; Artist; Social; Relational; Value; Organizational
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/881620
• Publisher URL: https://eksig.org/resources.html