I have been hesitated to point out something buried in my mind for long, but now it is time to actually give a stance:
For the bibliography, I have listed many artists that do similar work/performance. However, I would like to point out that to dig into artists with similar work is usually not my inspiration route. Even if I could gave analysis or learnt from their ways of doing this similar art direction, but still, because of the obscurity of my work, it just not seem very helpful other than echoing the artists’ statement across eras of our time.
Books and mythological figures are more likely to give me idea for a concept. I don’t want to sound this arrogant, but if do pardon me for I just want to be honest and continue my research in a way best suit for myself. Therefore, I would focus on the pedagogy that is most inspiring and makes the most sense for the project I need to do.
I love this. I have only seen your perform once, but at that performance I could really feel the power and expressiveness of your work. You do such a great job at creating depth and layers in ways that feel mysterious and rich. I am not a musician myself, so I would imagine there are many things about the music-creation process that I do not understand, but I love knowing that there are stories and mythologies that are behind your work. I would be very interested to learn more about the stories and mythologies that make up the world of your music.
Totally agree with your thoughts about echoing artists’ statements and definitely support you in finding your own methods of research. That being said, I just want to note that the bibliography is more than a tool for organizing micro-studies. While for some, listing other artists/artworks that inspire their thesis may be relevant and important to their development, for others it may be beneficial to use the bibliography as more of a macro tool to see where your ideas and thesis lie in relation to other existing ideas and explorations. It might not be as useful for your practice to analyze each artist’s work and methodologies but it may be helpful for you and for viewers to be able to see the wider contextual world that your project lives in. I hope that makes sense, TDLR, totally agree you don’t need to list a bunch of artists as inspo and try to analyze and develop from their strategies, would suggest reframing your expectations of the bibliography as a space to create and provide context, it can be artists and artworks that don’t necessarily inspire your thesis but instead explore different perspectives, start with similar questions but go in completely different directions etc. Also, your bibliography can and should consist of more than just art, it can be articles, blog posts, journals etc!