Contextualising studio practice

DMJ

Hegemony• In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony describes

the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of the society

• Emphasises that power is not wielded by one class over another, rather, power is negotiated through all classes of people.

• Unlike domination which is won by the ruling class through force, hegemony is enacted through the push and pull of all levels of society.

• No single class of people ‘has’ hegemony, rather, hegemony is a state or condition of a culture arrived at through negotiations, over meanings, laws, and social relationships.

Hegemony By Robert Bocock

Ideology• Much of the way that ideology is conceived today

originates with its formulation in the theories of Karl Marx.

• Ideology does not simply reflect the conditions of the world, whether falsely or not. Rather, it is the case that without ideology we would have no means of thinking about or experiencing that thing we call reality.

• Ideology is the necessary representational means through which we come to experience and make sense of reality.

Ideology: Structuring Identities in Contemporary Life By Gordon Bailey, Noga Gayle

Bricolage

• In the visual arts Bricolage is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by such a process.

• It is a mode of adaptation in which things (mostly commodities) are put to uses for which they were not intended and in ways that dislocate them from their normal or expected context.