Unit X week 2: Reinterpret, Reinvent, Remake: Manifesto's.

 Susie Macmurray 'shell'

In this weeks session we have been focused on the use of manifesto's within the art and design world, and how these can be of great importance to certain practitioners within their practice. 

By researching and printing 3-4 manifestos that, as a group, we found interesting and inspirational and explaining the reasons we chose the particular ones that we chose to the rest of the group was an educating experience.

A particular manifesto that I found interesting was artist Susie MacMurrays. I love the way that Macmurrays practice is based on this strong engagement with materials and the body, focusing on stimulating both physical and cultural associations with the viewers that encounter the pieces. It is the evoking of a feeling, emotion, memory or association from the viewer that led me to chose this particular manifesto, as I am really interested in this concept of creating a sensory experience, or creating a situation for the viewer within my own practice which could be seen as an interactive approach to working. 

This interest in the sensory experience and the creation of a situation means that I have been put into another group within the Reinterpret, Reinvent, Remake class, who also have an interest in this conceptual approach. We will be working on a group manifesto which we will present in an interesting way in next weeks workshop. It will be a great experience to listen to other peoples ideas an interpretations of this ideology, and work together to create something based on this.