Roanne Cox BAPP ACI Blog

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.  - Friedrich Nietzsche Exploring the topic of artistry has thus far been three things: Intriguing   Enlightening Mildly terrifying I didn't expect it to be a walk in the park, but I also didn't expect to be wandering fields and fields of related topics, issues, and dimensions. Not to mention disciplines. Needless to say, I was starting to feel a little bit lost and overwhelmed by the depth and expanse of it all. Thankfully, an extremely interesting supervision with Sam has brought some new direction and ideas (adding more ideas sounds slightly counter-intuitive but has actually been a small miracle). Within this infinite landscape, there appear to be two fundamental groundings - creativity and communication. We discussed both of these and their interpersonal skill sets - problem solving, storytelling, choreographing and teaching among...

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. - Brian Greene I feel like I haven't blogged in forever and this is mainly because my research has taken me here, there and everywhere. I'd be looking at research methods, then dip into my topic, a bit of philosophical methodology, back to dancing around my topic... For the last couple of weeks I seem to have read a lot and made lots of notes but it's taken me this long to have things finally start to come together and connect just a tiny bit. I was hoping to book a 1-2-1 this week to talk through my ideas but my uni email is currently not working... so all I have is my blog and here I am! In exploring different areas of artistry, a great deal of questions have surfaced. As a little point of reference and reflection for myself, I'll cover some of these below. ARTISTRY AND THE ARTS What do the Arts consider artistry as? What distinguishes an artist from a professiona...