“Following in the footsteps of another can also create the conditions of depaysement - a sense of being taken out of one’s element, or of egarement - the errant practice of straying from oneself.” (Emma Cocker — Tactics for Not Knowing: Preparing for the Unexpected)
The auto-distributive qualities of the anecdote shift the positioning of our participants from subjects of the archive to active agents within it.
Section V doesn’t constitute an example of radical and groundbreaking pedagogy and its influence was ultimately minimal. However, it is significant as an early instance in Glasgow of an alternative to the rigid predominant ideologies of traditional painting, observational drawing and sculpture. An alternative that looked towards a modernist European tradition and the cautious, non-committal first step in a twenty year evolution.
