Thoughts on readings from Jan. 20th

Hi All,

I have a question for you. What is the difference between visual research and an artist conducting reasearch for a visual art practise?

With this question in mind I have been considering the two readings from Jan 20th, Rebecca DeRoo's article, Annette Messager's Images of the Everyday/2006, and Pauwels article, Visual Sociology Reframed. I found these two articles confirmed my notion that visual research could/should be grounded in methodology, which is something I have been trying to do in my own art practise for quite sometime. I agree with Pauwels arguement for a "rigourous methodology" (pg 547), whereby, "visual researchers can make use of several theoretical frameworks in visual research" (pg 560) because I think this gives artwork a deeper richer meaning, and also provides an opprotunity to broaden discussion of previous knowleges.

I was also very interested in De Roo's perspective of Annette Messager's notebooks, as she notes that this work was based upon Feminism and Philosophy methodologies. I thought this article reinforced Pauwels arguement. As well as, raising the question, What is the difference between visual research and an artist conducting research for a visual art practice?

So I am now wondering in order for visual research to be taken seriously within academia does it have to be grounded in methodology? Also how does visual research function outside of academia?

Anyway, I'd enjoy recieving your comments on these questions.

Kimberly