Anatomy of the Artistic Process

The Tutor Base Anatomy of the Artistic Process focuses on building the gestures and rituals that foster an emergent process. Being an artist is as much about designing the conditions that allow you to create, as it is about making finished works of art. Studying art means developing such an individual process-based way of working. Some artists start by writing or drawing, others by building concentration through reading, or feeling bored. This Tutor Base offers a structure to learn to recognise how these small actions, perhaps even moments of not-knowing, can grow into a working process.

How ideas develop and materialise as work can be questioned each time anew. Therefore the Tutor Base cultivates a deliberate medium non-specificity. This poses the challenge of working with a wide variety of techniques and materials.
It is important to grow your way of doing things, which only happens through making work and experimenting. It requires an openness towards everything that emerges, even if you do not understand it at first.

Over the last years, the Tutor Base has developed a practice of collective exhibition-making. By making exhibitions, they investigate together how individual works can find a place in the art world, for instance a gallery, art collection, artists’ initiative or in public space.