Supervisor: MgA. Zbyněk Baladrán

Traditionally, printmaking might be understood in a 1:1 scale, a piece of paper, a plate, a motif, some ink, pressure, paper, imprint…Removed from this obvious site, the project Seeing Through Shortcomings…attempts to locate traditional printmaking as a tool or framework for thinking elsewhere, out of scale, out of print. The initial phase of Seeing Through Shortcomings…consists of facilitating a number of individual and group inquiries. This collaborative approach includes bringing 20 people though a series of (un-)prepared exercises, conversations and observations where printmaking as an apparatus of bodily production is contextualized, decontextualized, and again re-contextualized. In this process, we may observe intra-actions, interferences, retreat positions, reflexivity, situated or partial knowledge, or unexpected embodied vision. The material and mental results of this activity function as initial building blocks. The working title of this foundational subproject is Graphic Unconscious. The overall project Seeing Through Shortcomings…oscillate between routine activities in the studio/traditional printmaking workshop and individual/collective inquiries. The general approach thus builds upon a practice of decentering in relation to multiple authorship, current printmaking epistemologies and pedagogies.

MgA. Jesper James Alvaer,

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Dissertation: Ontologies of the Image

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