The first issue of Reflections was published on the occasion of the inaugural Research Festival, hosted by Camberwell MA Fine Art at Peckham Levels from 7-9 December 2022.
This issue brings together writing, audio and video essays by graduating students from across the six Fine Art pathways: Computational Arts, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture.
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Feminist Art in Digital Space
A talk and an essay about my research about re-architecting female‘s daily life in the digital space through performance, and using 3D cyborg to perform instead of live-action performance.
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The possibility of Software as life in Capitalist Ruins
Myths in digital practice: the art of self-presentation under digitalized society and the possibility of software as a kind of memory of human symbiosis.
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The Importance of Touch: Rubbing, Printmaking and the Expanded Field of Drawing in my Practice
This essay will discuss my research into touch as a means of exploring the world. It will talk about my practice in relation to rubbing, casting, imprints and printmaking in the expanded field of drawing.
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Depicting Impermanence
A discussion on the conceptual idea and various means of depicting time in contemporary art and the artist’s own practice
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Bad painting appear as a phenomena
Taking “bad painting” as the phenomenon, this paper probes into my artistic methodology.
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Red Dots, Entropy, and Syntax
in the Textual Shoes of Sandor Krasna1 1 The name of the fictitious cameraman whose imaginary letters read by a female narrator constitute the narration of the film ‘Sans Soleil’ (1983) by Chris Marker. Part 1. Parting of Ways When we were animals, we existed in chaos of nature. The world surrounding us posed dangers…
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The body in the in-between – painting the glitched body
This essay highlights different approaches to translate the body into the digital space and reflects on how this affects our understanding of this body.
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AROUND ABOUT
Multiplicity of bodies in the space between subject and object. Sphere as allegory for an existence between internal and external, in and out. The body as globe, ball, orb, bubble, foam, etc.
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Happy Death Day: Revisiting Feminism in Abortion in the Chinese Context
The artist seeks to explore a new perspective on abortion based on feminism. By making it possible for a wider audience to participate in the search for a new perspective on abortion, the patriarchy’s devaluation and natural stigmatisation of women who have had abortions can be dismantled.
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A conversation about reincarnation
Jingyu Niu and Yifei Sun discuss their research on personal secrets and the Buddhist realm. They explore confessions of past experiences, negative emotions, struggles with desires, reincarnation and future lives.
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A record of immediate thoughts on the author’s own works, creative process and art from a first-person perspective; reflects on the art and artworks that the author has seen and heard with one’s consciousness which carries the author’s subjective recognition.
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The connection between people and objects
For some people, objects are always given some special meaning. These objects can be people’s friends, can be a container that hold people’s memories, or can be a symbol that represent someone.
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Painting as a returning object
This article discusses the history of object returns, and how painting, as an object both shaped and participating in the shaping of the creator’s actions, becomes a visual representation of the tension between subject and object.
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How my paintings rebels the era of mass media and digital communication.
This essay, in the tone of a practice report, outlines the author’s artistic practice during the MA, discussing how painting was used as a weapon to resist the late capitalist, consumer, image-infested era.
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Digital Religion Bible
For the research festival, I wrote a book based on my central topic — the Bible of Digital religion. I hope that by spreading this Digital Religion Bible, more people can learn about digital religion.
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Memories of the Motherland
Video essay discussing the development of my practice through research, with personal footage filmed in Iran and documentation of my painting practice.
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Spirituality and Poetry in Painting
An essay analysing the role of spirituality and poetry in my own painting practice and other artists’ works.
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Comfort home in games online: When play is not just about fun
An essay discussing about the game. When games are not only just screen activities for enjoyment. Point out new context that games can take. Connect people with a sense of home.
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Performance as gentle resistance
This article will analyse performance art as a gentle rebellion and messages of noncooperation from the artworks by artists and non-artists.
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Reconstructing witches in feminism
A self-interview about my research and practice in reconstructing witches under a feminist context. Here I will discuss artists, poetry, films, operas, dances and podcasts that influenced me.
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Analysis of the current situation of environmental artists
This essay proposes the idea of recycling creative consciousness, combined with the creation of personal environmental art works for analysis.
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A Conversation about Reincarnation
Yifei Sun and Jingyu Niu discuss their research on personal secrets and the Buddhist realm. They explore confessions of past experiences, negative emotions, struggles with desires, reincarnation and future lives.
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The uncanny in three-dimensional works
An essay discussing three-dimensional work created under the influence of Donald Judd’s ‘Specific Objects’.
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Yearning for the idealised past
An essay analysing the concept of the past, nostalgia and memory.
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TADO Art Center – London Short Film Festival
TLSFF is an online community platform for young creators to show their talents, advance their careers, find partners to share their lives and gather their ideas.
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A Drop of the Unknown: Creating emptiness in printmaking
This essay pursues invisible existence, exploring emptiness through an experimental approach in the materiality of printmaking and subject transformation.
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Crowds, us
This essay explores societal isolation and invisible boundaries through illusionary spaces and figures, reflecting the collective impact of social divisions within broader structures.
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Diphylleia grayi: In-between
A reflection on thresholds through an intertwined practice of drawing and embroidery, exploring the relationship between line, body, intimacy and existence.
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Exchange Dialogues: Navigating Cross-Cultural Spiritual Pathways in Art
This essay reflects on my interview with artist Yin-Ju Chen, exploring the topics of cross-cultural art practice, shamanism, identity and AI, and the role of spirituality in contemporary contexts.
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Expressing Mother-daughter Relationship Through Installation Photography
This essay discusses the harm I suffered in the mother-daughter relationship based on the way my mother and I got along in the past as I created my work.
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Human and Nature: Rebirth, repair and new symbiosis
This essay explores the interconnectedness of life, death, nature, and pollution, examining how symbiosis in the Anthropocene reflects human impact on the environment.
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Interactive Narrativity in The Context of Participatory Arts and Power
This thesis investigates how interactive narrativity within participatory arts can challenge societal power structures and foster social change, drawing upon both theoretical insights and my own practice-based research.
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Modern Influences on Human-Animal Interactions
An exploration of how technology, climate change, urbanization, and media reshape human-animal relationships, ethical responsibilities, and societal roles toward animals and the environment.
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Modern Ruins
Reflections on sculptural practice-as-research through the latter half of 2024, and my rediscovery of ‘autoethnography’. This project began in the notion of ‘monumentality’.
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Polyphony of Ashes and Words: Whispers of Existence
This essay explores the intersections of culture, identity, and materiality in contemporary art through poetic reflections and installations inspired by modular structures, ephemeral materials, and dual cultural experiences.
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Presence and Absence
This podcast explores the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, focusing on love’s expression, cultural influences, and emotional dynamics.
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Sublime, Creating Environment for Meditative Calm and Encountering Landscape
This essay reflects my research on encountering landscapes, creating an environment for meditative calm and the idea of sublime.
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Tracing a Subtle Feedback
This reflection on painting reexamines the process of observation as an active form of interaction. It is supported by theories on perception, Art Therapy, and raises an inquiry on the categorical distinctions between symbolic dialogue and social practice.