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“cataloguing various aspects of everyday life with recording technologies. The kind of durational aesthetic strategies embedded in everyday life I have also followed with regard to other practitioners whose works evolve through the patterns of daily life, utilize recording technologies in everyday life, or take the quotidian as their subject.” ⤴️ ->

“McLuhan’s definition of amateurism might be more productive here. He believes amateurism is about “the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society” (McLuhan, 2001, p.92” ⤴️ ->

“The amateur (Barthes, 1977, p.52), in contrast to the professional, does not operate in an environment demarcated by the ground rules of a given specialization” ⤴️ ->

“I seek to blur the boundary between the amateur and professional, and consequently, artistic practice and practice of everyday life” ⤴️ ->

“moves beyond their constraints or recombines these constraints so they become productive towards some other directions, aims and motivations.” ⤴️ ->

“a reconfiguration of the way one attends to capturing technologies addresses alternative, individuated purposes such as constructing a subjective record of the time.” ⤴️ ->

Toby Miller 2009 rundown of media tech through history seen as dangerous by conservatives due to the elitist leanings of cultured/uncultured, expert/inexpert ->

cultural studies of the everyday took off in the UK in the 60s ->

prior to this ‘uses and gratification’ studies showed ‘selective orientation’ to media, somewhat of an alternative to the pessimism of the times’ critical theory. Questions the allegedly hegemonic role of media and highlights voluntary meaning making from media, from the 40s even ->

“categories used by de Certeau to describe practices of everyday life, such as “silent”, “invisible”, “elusive”,“opaque”,“clandestine”,“disguised”,“persistent” or “stubborn” (in Highmore, 2002, p.108).” ⤴️ ->

optimising the everyday as a disabled person

invention/innovation is a daily practise for many disabled people

altering tools, building our own
adjusting environments
adjusting methods, plans, processes

where our needs are specific or just generally environments/communications/resources are inaccessible, we find our own way to make it work (often left to us/our carers/loved ones rather than catered for/previously considered)