Exposition

Thirty Artwork Iterations (Daily through February and into March, 2025) (2025)

Mike Croft
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About this exposition

The project began as a commitment to 30/30, an initiative offered by Artquest, where subscribing artists were required to upload a new artwork to a 30/30 dedicated platform on a daily basis though the month of February and into March, 2025. The response formatted as this exposition is variations of text, image, and video animation, archived as still-image iterations mostly sized at 21 x 29.5cm and hyperlinked videos of up to two-minutes’ running time. The works’ content wavers between anecdotal and academic/theoretical. (Artquest issued non-obligatory collective prompts at the start of each day, which is in this case sometimes either used.) Any texts from each iteration have been copied to a companion page and corrected, rephrased or explained. The iterations play with oscillation between text and image, where the look of text under these circumstances becomes more noticeable while retaining much of its readability. Theoretical reading during the project had been Isabelle Stengers's book on the philosopher A. N. Whitehead, which is variously referenced in the iterations. At the same time, the author’s recent interest in a question of adaptability of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's Logical Square to the question of the artistic research process is referenced. Given that the theories of these two authors do not in any obvious sense relate, their conflation in a sense holds their function in the iterations open to question, analogous to how one reflects on interests in and through one's visual practice. While the 30/30 structure required daily decision-making and action, any one iteration tended to be of consequence to the next, which afforded continuity of duration to the project.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsvisual art, Language, drawing, video, theory and practice, autofiction, art writing
date03/02/2025
published09/03/2025
last modified09/03/2025
statuspublished
affiliationi2ADS Research Institute of Art, Design and Society
copyrightMichael Croft
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3390281/3390282
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3390281
published inResearch Catalogue


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nameOrganisizing a diagram
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nameIn Lieu of an Image
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