ECH Archival Access - 10/01/2011 @ Liverpool Records Office

This afternoon was spent looking through 3 boxes of re-housed ECH negatives [Cellulose Nitrate & Acetate] mainly dating from the 1930's.

Supervisory Meeting - 26/10/2011 @ MMU

Present - Simon Faulkner / David Brittain / Gavin Parry

The meeting highlighted the need for more talk of the 'Process of Enquiry' in terms of:

• Writing in relation the ECH Archival materials


• The use of the camera to photograph existing imagery

It was suggested that the re-written Methodolgy Section of the RD1 should start with a quote - perhaps by Walter Benjamin:

"Every Image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own, threatens to disappear irretrievably"

Supervisory Meeting - 05/10/2011 @ MMU

Present - Simon Faulkner / David Brittain / Gavin Parry

• The meeting discussed the changes required to the Methodology Section of the RD1 Proposal as highlighted by scrutineer Dr Steven Gartside.


• A need for a stronger and clearer use of the archival material was identified.


• The project needs to be focussed more on the Archival work and subsequent Archival intervention.


• It was identified that this intervention could be very imaginative.


• In order to try and develop this, further research is required around photographic / archival projects as a way of further developing ideas.

The following Practitioners have been identifed:

• Jacqueline Butler - Paper Landscapes and Impulse, Gesture - 2010


• Nicky Bird - Tracing Echoes - 2001


• Pierre Huyghe & Douglas Coupland - School Spirit - 2002


• Christian Boltanski - The Reserve of the Dead Swiss - 2002


• John Stezaker - Moving Portraits - 2007


• Aleksandra Mir - Living & Loving Series - 2002


• Tom Phillips - We Are The People - 2004


• Geoff Batchen - Forget Me Not - 2004


• Taryn Simon - A Living Man Declared Dead - 2011

Supervisory Meeting - 05/08/2011 @ KRO Bar

Present - Simon Faulkner

This meeting was used to discuss further developments with the RD1 Proposal including:

• Linking the ECH Archive to my own practice


• Working 'hands on' within the ECH Archive


• The making of imagery in response to the ECH Archive

The following references were made:

Alan Sekula - Photography Against The Grain

Shimon Attie - Writing on the Wall - Berlin Early 1990's

James E. Young - At Memory's Edge

Susan Meiselas - Nicaragua

Annual Review - 03/08/2011 @ MIRIAD

Present - Prof. Jim Aulich

• The meeting firstly discussed the scrutineer's report made by Dr. Steven Gartside, detailing the RD1 proposal, submitted to the recent Faculty Research Degrees Committee.



• It has been recommended that the RD1 be resubmitted for Chair's Action during August 2011, with amendments made specifically to the 'Methodologies' section.



• Comments made were as follows: The 'Methodologies' section does not appear to contain any methodologies as such. The aims discuss writing 'in support of theoretical frameworks' - the methodologies section would have been the place to discuss exactly what these are. As it stands it feels there is something of a supportive lack, one that could be significantly problematic for the structure of the written component.
  


• It was agreed that a meeting be established with my Director of Studies [Dr Simon Faulkner] in order to discuss this section at length and then re-submit for Chair's Action.



• This Meeting has now been arranged for Friday 05/08/2011



• Annual Review recommendations from Prof. Aulich are as follows:

"Identify & engage the literature in order to articulate the appropriate conceptual framework. Meet with Simon ASAP. Needs to make sure that as far as possible the team meets as a team. Continue to make good progress."

Jim Loftus @ The Bridewell Studios - 05/04/2011

Supervisory Meeting - 04/05/11 @ MIRIAD

Present - Simon Faulkner, Gavin Parry

• The meeting responded to the submitted draft of the RD1 proposal. What Keith should do next was discussed at length.
  


• It was decided that for the immediate period Keith should run two elements of the project in parallel with each other:
  

1. The initial exploration of the Hardman archive dealing with the practicalities of access; and dealing with the development of a methodology for how to use the archive in terms of the identification of a usable typology.



2. Reading around photography and archives; artists using and creating archives; theories of archiving.

Next meeting TBC - June 2011