Paper plane 2: Lockdown re-imaginings and an ethics of care [Geraldine Burke]

Reimagining Art-based research and art education during lockdown

Paper plane 2: Lockdown re-imaginings and an ethics of care. Geraldine Burke, 2020.

This paper plane reimagines art-based research and art education during an extended period of lockdown in Melbourne, during COVID times. The plane also takes inspiration from four a/r/tographic texts.

Paper plane 2: Lockdown re-imaginings and an ethics of care (in progress)

Geraldine Burke, 2020.

Lockdown - Out for a one hour walk in lockdown; dripping sea water onto the paper plane and creating Rorschach lockdown smudges as drips turn into virus like tendrils.

Paper plane 2: Lockdown re-imaginings and an ethics of care

Geraldine Burke, 2020.

The lockdown paper plane continues and develops as a picture act! Spring has sprung, bright yellow wattle fills the air, but lockdown continues… the plane carries with it developing concepts amongst a/r/tographic prompts …with it comes emerging questions/insights brought about by teaching art in COVID times and across Zoom, together/apart/ and wondering about what really matters – what can we find at the core of art/education/research for times like this?

Cartographies from the South

Geraldine Burke, 2020

Scrunching up the plane, scrunching up the map, finding new folds in random places; P.S.I know you are missing the beach – so some shells and shards for you!

Accompanying Letter (excerpts)

Geraldine Burke, 2020.

As part of our paper plane project we sent letters to each other to accompany our planes. The letters and the planes prompted us to think about art education in the time of Covid and to re-consider the influence that four key a/r/tographic readings have on our thinking and practice.