RCA Thinking & Practice Group

Welcome

We are a group of makers, designers and artists from the Royal College of Art who meet regularly to question our practice. We want to work out our work's place in the world by thinking through practice.

We meet in different places in the RCA or elsewhere. We read, talk, visit shows, critique work, and make together. The meetings are a space for connection, where the connection directs the group's activities.

The largest volume of timber rafting took place between 1870 and 1900.  This picture Circa 1938 shows one of the last known timber rafts to make the journey from DeKalb County to Nashville.

Meetings / Events

Fri 18 April 08, 3pm at ArtBar

First meeting at RCA Artbar. We talked for an hour about what we wanted out of the group. We covered a lot of urgent topics but agreed that there was no point talking any further without having our work in front of us when we discuss these things.

Fri 9 May 08, 10am in the archive room Printmaking Dept 6th floor Darwin building.

We looked at Catherine's, Jack's and Meital's work. We agreed to put a bid in for funding and to open the group up to the college. For more details, click here.

Fri 23 May 08, 2pm in the Red Room, Ground Floor, Stevens Building

We talked about arts education, discussed passages from Hegel and Heidegger, and looked at Hitomi's and Dionea's work. For more details, click here.

Fri 6 June 08, 4pm: Fine & Applied Art Degree Show Walkabout

Looking at work from The Show: Part One. 

Wed 18 June, 2.30pm: Visit to the Materials Library at Kings College London

Zoe Laughlin, curator at the Materials Library will give us a talk, give us a tour and show us all the wonderful and bizarre materials they have!

Event TBA : Flesh and Feelings - the new F words?

(see Flesh for more details)

Do we feel a thirst for further emotional exploration and expression in art?

Are we intrigued by the absence of flesh in our daily life?

What about a film screening followed by a discussion around these ideas?

 - A discussion that will allow us to experiment with free, passionate expression of our feelings (while still maintaining some level of critical awareness)

Event TBA: Thinking through Clay

We've talked before about thinking through practice (ie. thinking or understanding via doing). So it must be true that different ways of doing are different ways of thinking. As such it might be interesting for those of us who have never tried a clay practice before to give it a go, and see how it shifts the way we think. Coiling and throwing might be good places to start. If anyone is intersted get in touch and we can arrange a session. Jack

Just in response to this idea of thinking through materials (FLESH and CLAY) I've contacted the Materials Library at Kings College to arrange a group visit. They have an exiting approach to materials, how we respond to them, classify them and try to blur barrier between body and element. Might be a good forum for exploring further Jack and Meital's (and my) contributions and concerns. Brigit 

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