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.
Keywords
generative metaphor; visual/artist/social/relational; value; organizational
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2013.110
Citation
Smith, H.(2013) Generating Space to Articulate the Value of an Artists’ Practice, in Nimkulrat, N., Niedderer, K., Evans, M. (eds.), EKSIG 2013: Knowing Inside Out – Experiential Knowledge, Expertise and Connoisseurship, 4–5 July 2013, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2013.110
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Generating Space to Articulate the Value of an Artists’ Practice
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.