Lab 2 Aims and Objectives/ methodologies me thinks?????

I’m not going to lie; god knows what I’m going to do for this lab. Of course I am aware of what issues I am dealing with at the moment steaming from personal endeavour and knowledge through to documentation and validation but I’m worried that in dealing with certain parts of this I am beginning to loose others. In particular due to the nature of my research question ‘To what extent in documentation validation’ this strand of my practice seams to be taking over. Not that I am opposed to this organic development seeing as due to the 3000 word essay deadline approaching but in terms of the lab situation theses ideas have there difficulties. I am beginning to contradict myself. Bollocks.

I wish to show my opposition to documentation but within a lab situation the problem occurs that I can either show a piece of work or show the documentation neither of which helps highlight my point.

I also find myself increasing being pulled away from usual simplistic way of working in order to fill requirements or play to a specific audience. This is stupid. The pointless endeavour part of my practice screams for spontaneity and simplicity why should the necessity of validation spoil this?

I feel I am being forced to take this too seriously. I DON’T DO SERIOUS! I take the Mick that’s what I do. That’s what my work does. Why should I feel force to change this through context?

Ok plan of action – undertake as many of the ideas I have had but not carried out up until this point because they seam silly.

1. Wiki quiz show
2. Wiki tenuous link
3. Storytelling of my non-event at the fine art interim show
4. Re-enactment of Dave Gormans non-happening
5. Personal achievement list
6. Learn something for an entire day then prove it
7. A failed personal endeavour
8. Re-enactment of chase audition
9. E-how – performance art
10. A performance utterance

Can this its self be my lab? Can documentation of these be validation of my lab endeavour?

Ok time to tick some boxes and validate my pre-documentation –

1. What are you hoping to achieve?

To counter act the Richard Dedominici affect of producing a chapter of unrealized ideas giving validity to an idea through the documentation of it. By doing this he hints at the idea of work never really needing to happen and the documentation or in this case the pre-documentation is validation enough. In relation to Austins performative utterance simply by saying that apiece can exist makes the work exist its self.

2. Why do you want to achieve theses things?

To question the status of live art when performance becomes documentation.
To validate my endeavour
Challenge pre-existing ideas in order to reaffirm them.

3. What research questions are you asking?

I like to believe I am addressing both conceptual and theoretical issues – using theory to explain a concept – Austin’s performative utterances in relation to performance status through documentation. Helping to inform both my practice and my research.

4. How are you going to achieve your aim?

I think this has been addressed above but I am hoping to produce all of the ideas listed above in relation to endeavour. Document all (data collection) in reference to validation and necessity of an event actually happening. Documentation/ Text as a performance. Links to Austin, Demomenici, Dave Gorman, the Bill Viola text for Douglas’s reading group, Hayley Newman and Plelan.