I just had my tutorial with joey, and it was extremely helpful. I had a list of questions and more came up during it as well. My main issue at the moment was the structure and planning, and he gave me a lot of great things to think about and that was encouraging. The main takeaway was to just start writing - anything and everything. He said he tends to think of writing as something sculptural - and I could visualise that clearly - like chucking bits of clay together and see what kind of shape it forms in the end - it is messy at the start but its the editing that will make it - he also said the planning is like the armature - it doesn't have to be great, just to have main branches.
He then showed me two great resources from academic support online which I didn't even know had their own site: https://academicsupportonline.arts.ac.uk/resources/writing/developing-skills/2am-guide-proof-reading this one gives a few ways to structuring the essay/flow
https://academicsupportonline.arts.ac.uk/sites/default/files/39/2015-09-24_11-39/contextual_analysis_of_an_artwork_v3.png this one provides a diagram to follow, not too strictly, how to talk about/contextualise an artwork.
-apart from that, he also suggested for me to look at more e-journals, and download them while I can, specific ones he mentioned were proquest, jstor, project muse.
-writing introduction and conclusion at the end, which was very encouraging because I get stuck on that all the time when I have no idea how this essay will direct itself.
-suggested the use of footnotes, if I was to write in a less formal tone, to link to more theoretical ideas, which is not included in the word count.
-Eco's travels in hyperreality essay, he is great at linking things that don't normally go together, and it is dangerous because it makes you want to write in this voice, but keep in mind that you shouldn't have the expectation that it will go as smoothly as his work, he can reference anything and everything and recall points easily
-to have a separate bibliography (Uncited texts) for texts I didn't directly reference...
-the bibliography should have a balance of theory, artists... first thing he looks at
More points on structure/organising ideas: the venn diagram with the three circles - to include 'the artists or art subject im looking at' , the 'theories', and the 'materiality/media', which tends to get forgotten, though he thinks its actually the easiest to write about for artists. I said that I was just gonna talk mainly about the emotional response and he said that could also be a sort of media. Anyway, he said the three circles don't have to be balanced.
-perhaps having three rough sections, Argument/counterargument/third way(which could be your own, or a mediator between the two argument and the counter,) and this was it is much easier to word limit each section and set writing goals.
We were going through the academic support article, specifically the cinematic approach, and I asked what the difference between incident and conflict was and he said this is like a screenplay, eg a question of is the diorama the same as a digital diorama and you would go into the conflict of it...
-I realised that 'emotional response' could be an anchor/focus that I keep coming back to...
He also told me to look at the Affect theory which concerns how aesthetics affect emotional response, its a huge area but it will be worth looking into.