I am really looking forward to this exchange, especially as an external experience and insight into how other art institutions are influenced by their surrounding cultures. I feel very positive about going away as it is going to be a wonderful opportunity to expand my knowledge of the arts and to meet other students in this crucial stage of self exploration.
In the exchange I really want to question my practice and truly grasp it. I want to explore and experiment my processes through different mediums and concepts which I have never come against. I feel that this experience will be a transitionary moment within my artistic development and give me a bigger perspective and view point within my work.
The wonderful thing about going away is that you have both the internal and external space to become anything and anyone. Because I will be interacting with people and working alongside tutors that I am not familiar with, theres is an essence of freedom and openness. It means that I can allow my art to speak for me and also explore who I want to be as an artist.
I have a good reading list whilst I'm away, and they are all slightly linked to the sense of entering new spaces as part of a journey. 'The Practice of Everyday Life' written by Michel de Certeau looks at the elements of Performance within everyday life and studies the presence of people within their environments. I think that this will be especially interesting as it will be a good way to reflect Certeau's philosophies of exploring everyday life within my own journeys. I feel it is when we enter a new city or environment that we become much more aware of ourselves and how we inhabit them...
I also plan to read 'London Orbital', which is written by Iain Sinclair. This book was recommended to me by a friend and he said it was very interesting as it is narrated through the sound trail of a city. Sinclair writes his story, referencing the interesting topic of 'psycho-geography'. I like this terminolgy and I look forward to learning about about his journey and the perspective of meeting a city through its sounds and invisible imprints, rather than its visible ones; to get truly lost within a city.~
When I am in Milan I very much want to immerse myself within the city; I want to become a a part of it and at the same time I want to discover new things about myself...I feel that by having this separation from what I know and being away is going to be an extreme eye opener not only as an artist, but also as an individual~ I am especially looking forward to meeting other aspiring artists from all over the world and interacting with them to create an open dialogue between many different cultures, concepts and ideas...
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