CoP visual development inspiration

In my essay I touch briefly upon Marcel Duchamp and his readymades, and as I'm continuing my visual development I'm thinking of using a really recognisable object as a vehicle for exploring different types of art. Need to do some drawings and think about how to push an everyday object around in different contexts. Can I make the same object represent performance art? surrealist art? conceptual art? 

Is it a piece of art? Is it a ceramic white urinal? It's not functional anymore, so is it still a urinal. Can it      somehow be both.   

CoP task - Hotdog books challenge

Really struggled with this task, even though I shouldn't have. The practical element of Cop really let me down last year and I'm worried about it happening again. I feel that I should have been able to generate more content for this task, especially because I am so interested in my essay subject.

Idea One

A wholly interactive book - a double sided sticker book called This is Art/This is Bullshit. The premise being that the reader can decide for themselves what is and isn't art. There are a few aspects of this idea that I quite like: 

- Designing the stickers would allow me to further explore type and graphics. Could the stickers be arrows, or pointing hands? Could you it include mix'n'match letters so you could come up with your own conclusions about what art is? Lots of room for play here. 

- Because the question at the centre of my essay is how accessible contemporary art is or isn't,  I think making something as wholly accessbile as a sticker book is quite a neat idea, as it relies completely upon audience participation to serve it's function. 

However, maybe the idea of the double sidedness of the book is a bit much. 'This is Bullshit' presents a very strong opinion, and although I am the examine the pretensions of the Artworld in my essay, I do not intend it to be a damning of it.                              

Idea Two

A kind of 'dictionary' of International Art English?  It could be quite interesting to try and make a visual response to such a strange strand of language. I've loosely termed this idea a 'dictionary', but I'm not sure that that's what it would be, as IAE is more  a weird style of English that having its own specific lexicon. Also, from an illustration perspective, I wonder how much room there would be visual play when trying to make a book about language.

Idea Three

A visual guide to different types of art. This seems the most straightforward idea but if it was handled properly it could also be the most effective. Especially if I focused on it being an a really accessible guide, maybe with a naive aesthetic? What makes This is certainly the idea that seems most neatly linked to the overarching themes of my essay, rather than focusing too closely on one specific element 

CoP2 pre-easter peer review

This review was pretty helpful. The general consensus seemed to be that although I didn't have lots of developmental work to show (which I was expecting) , the work that I have got is promising and shows the beginnings of what could be a very interesting idea.

PLAN OF ACTION FOR EASTER:

• Think through drawing, just try and devote one or two whole days to exploring my preliminary ideas. Once I get into the swing of it, I'm sure the idea will naturally form more fully.
• Start thinking of the format of my book - if I know what kind of publication I am hoping to make, thinking of how to develop final art work resolutions may come more easily.