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#2: effects & ambitions
Can you elaborate on the role artistic research plays in you practice today?
It does not significantly impact but there has been some consideration of my creative interests and trajectory relating to teaching.
What role do you feel it should play in academia?
Provide a series of ‘studio voices’ to add to the debates in and around creative practice.
If you take an average working week, what percentages would be your estimated time-investment in the activities below, in the past year?
If your entire work week would be 100%
Artistic research (reading, experimenting, attending conferences, visiting exhibitions etc.)
Artistic production (executing work, exhibitions etc.)
Academic work (publications, presentations etc.)
Teaching (curriculum development, meetings etc.)
Other work
Are you content with this devision?
Currently trying to increase artist production but feel Ok about current division
Which are your long term ambitions?
Exhibit, Residencies develop curriculum
#1: locality
To be honest any reflections on my doctoral research journey have been relatively few and far between since completion. However my move to Moscow in September 2012 to the British Higher School of Art and Design has somehow allowed me to re-engage with aspects of what was termed in my abstract a ‘terrain of interests.’ I can’t help but feel this is down to geography, the relocation and subsequent adjustments (often an echo of my experiences living and working in Japan from 1997-2003) that provides a distance both mental and physical.
In the last few years I have found that interest in several themes such as ‘Cabinets of Curiosity’ and other ‘Models of Display’ have been re-ignited by contact with a lively and engaged student cohort eager for art education specifically following a British BA (Hons) program. Although my research ranged over many areas it was crucially concerned with the necessary pursuit of a balance between theory and practice. It is here that there is a sense of a creative dialogue being established between the program delivery and the student’s experiences, their studio activity and personal development. This has been a source of great satisfaction both professionally and personally.
About Dr. John Lavell
Personal website
Can you elaborate on the role artistic research plays in you practice today?
It does not significantly impact but there has been some consideration of my creative interests and trajectory relating to teaching.
What role do you feel it should play in academia?
Provide a series of ‘studio voices’ to add to the debates in and around creative practice.
If you take an average working week, what percentages would be your estimated time-investment in the activities below, in the past year?
If your entire work week would be 100%
Artistic research (reading, experimenting, attending conferences, visiting exhibitions etc.)
Artistic production (executing work, exhibitions etc.)
Academic work (publications, presentations etc.)
Teaching (curriculum development, meetings etc.)
Other work
Are you content with this devision?
Currently trying to increase artist production but feel Ok about current division
Which are your long term ambitions?
Exhibit, Residencies develop curriculum
#1: locality
To be honest any reflections on my doctoral research journey have been relatively few and far between since completion. However my move to Moscow in September 2012 to the British Higher School of Art and Design has somehow allowed me to re-engage with aspects of what was termed in my abstract a ‘terrain of interests.’ I can’t help but feel this is down to geography, the relocation and subsequent adjustments (often an echo of my experiences living and working in Japan from 1997-2003) that provides a distance both mental and physical.
In the last few years I have found that interest in several themes such as ‘Cabinets of Curiosity’ and other ‘Models of Display’ have been re-ignited by contact with a lively and engaged student cohort eager for art education specifically following a British BA (Hons) program. Although my research ranged over many areas it was crucially concerned with the necessary pursuit of a balance between theory and practice. It is here that there is a sense of a creative dialogue being established between the program delivery and the student’s experiences, their studio activity and personal development. This has been a source of great satisfaction both professionally and personally.
About Dr. John Lavell
Personal website
