The Habits of Artists - Inventory of Behaviours #2 and #3, Tate Exchange, 2018 and 2019

By understanding the patterns and routines in artists’ behaviours as unique features of creative knowledge making, <i>The Habits of Artists</i> seeks to deepen our insight into art learning. Employing a unique platform through which the audience is engaged in public learning as performance, the research asks whether we can find fitting frameworks for communicating the complexities of art practice, in which often subjective and bespoke logics drive creativity.<br>Addison and Kidd employed the participatory methods tested in <i>Noticer</i> to design <i>Inventory of Behaviours</i>. In this series of events participants were invited to adopt more overtly performative roles in the collective endeavour of studying the patterns of behaviours of artists.<br><br><i>Inventory of Behaviours #2, </i>Tate Exchange, 19-22 June 2018.<i>Inventory of Behaviours #3, </i>Tate Exchange, 18-21 June 2019.<br>This item contains a description of the events along with photographic documentation and example instructions. This item also includes links to web press on the Tate website and information about the event from Freelands Foundation (for links see 'References' below). <br><b>Photographs courtesy of Jo Addison, Jennifer Cooper, and Raine Smith.</b><b><br></b><b>Used with permission.</b>