Jennifer and I stayed after class for a bit today and talked about how it might work out best for everyone to work in pairs so that our time for presentation might be more efficiently used. Also, this way we can make sure that everyone contributes to the cause with the time-honored "buddy system."
I will read through the blog this weekend and post a list of people together that seem to be working towards similar concepts. Perhaps it will be easier for us to meet with our partners than all try to meet together until the end.
The closer the time comes for our presentation, I believe we will need to have at least one group meeting to decide on a superstructure to fit our ideas together into, as well as to designate time slots for each of us to speak on our topic and decide on a format. Powerpoint? Website? Other?
In the meantime, try to think of one concise point you want to express because even in pairs, we won't have much time to talk. Dr. Ryan encouraged us to avoid biographical information unless it is explicitly important to the point you want to make--get to the meat of the issue!
I will be sending Dr. Ryan an email of the proposed topic areas, potential pairs, as well as a list of everyone who has been active on this blog so that she can be assured of who has been participating so far. She expressed her concern today about people slipping through the cracks, so please make a post about a potential topic ASAP if you haven't already!
>>Jessica Clinton, in response to your previous post, I think someone else was interested in Kruger, as well, so I will try to pair you with her when I look back through the blog this weekend.<<
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Hannah,
Thank you so much for the thoughtful consideration and extensive time you have put into replying to everyone's post! It is very generous of you to help tie this all together. I am definitely seconding the notion of working in pairs. I think it would add a little more cohesion and clarity to the group's message as a whole.
Would you like to get together after class tomorrow for a few brief minutes and just touch base a little about where all of this is going? I realize now looking though some previous posts that it was not necessarily clear in the beginning that we were trying to tie the use of the body in contemporary art with current and previous trends in feminist movements. I was hoping to create a mission statement for our blog so that we could all be on the same page, which seemed unnaturally forced in the beginning, but it seems to be developing more as we all do some research. Maybe we could work on identifying some themes together. I'll read through your comments to the other posts and see if I can add some thoughts.
Brooke
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