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So, here we are on VIVID’s Interdisciplinary Support Scheme. A chance to formalise a relationship that was starting to develop with people within the IRC at Birmingham Uni.

In many ways it is the dream set up: I get a bursary towards the R&D of a project, with a not too specific deadline for when that all has to happen by. The exact nature of the project hasn’t been specified either so I essentially have a free rein. How often do you get an opportunity like that?

All beautifully timed to coincide with an identity crisis of monstrous proportions…

The last 9 months or so have mostly been occupied with me asking some fairly fundamental questions of myself and of my work. Actually, most of that time has probably been spent figuring out that I needed to ask some questions and then identifying which questions needed to be asked.

Whilst the “am I art or am I science” issue seems to have been resolved some time ago (I decided it’s a stupid question – not something to waste my time on) this was replaced by the “am I craft or am I fine art” chestnut. Whilst this may ultimately also turn out to be a futile question, the upshot is that I’ve been looking very critically at the work I’ve done over the last few years and have been trying to identify what my strongest projects have been.

I touched on this in an earlier post and I think I now have a general strategy for tackling future work. Which is good, because I really need to be making some work now!

It’s all been a bit fraught: whilst the ISP residency itself is fairly open, I am also coming to the end of a BA degree and that definitely does have deadlines!

So, here we are on VIVID’s Interdisciplinary Support Scheme. At first I really struggled to justify my place on the scheme, but now I have gone a long way towards laying some solid foundations.

The idea of using this website as a sort of online sketchbook seems to be working really well for me. Better than I had expected. Exposing one’s workings to the world in general seems to be fairly narcissistic, but it is forcing me to sit down and marshal some disparate trains of thought. It will be interesting for me to look back later and see how different threads have come together.

But for now, time to do some work.
And stick some logos on the bottom.