Intersections and Articulations - KF
Discussing her research - discussing things and nothingness
how we can know things - spiritual aspects - practice is embedded in research
object-based practice and also the work is done with artists in different space and in museums in their collections - the potentiality of objects - beyond themselves and allowing new work to emerge. RUMMAGING
words that shape who she is - poem - Pablo Neruda - an ode to common things -
ode to things - pillars, scissor, rings bowls hats, love, all things, - link to a poem - loves the notion that objects are alive with us - the notion of an object to have agency and potential and be imagined into new words.
our objects and what they say about us:
Jessie - tiny bucket- life is like filling a bucket with experience and memories all mixing together.
Rachel - night sky viewer - past a future - represents something much bigger than itself
Mark - pocket multi-tools - feels like he is ready - fix anything with it. always with him, shiny, heavy, tactile. Makes him feel ready.
Mozhdeh - Pencil - comfortable, reliable, erase it, correct herself, trust - made of wood and connected to trees - trees are evidence of history - grew until their last day.
Elaine - hat - love to be outside - always planning to go out - with her hat on. Not the hat she wanted as she can't find it. IT gets lost in pockets and in other peoples homes - they always make their way back to me. Loss of objects - hopeful it will come back.
Tina - Rock with a hole in it! - had stones - always finds the rock with a hole in it. from childhood - had one with a rope that she dragged around, looking through it.
Jo - picture of a chair - not a chair - the ubiquitous white plastic chair that is neither special or not, can be both comfortable or uncomfortable - strong yet fragile. meta-layer - the boundary of what an object is.
Rhoda - earrings - jewellery - obsession- draw full and buys when travelling - used to make some - upcycling - tactile - customising
Me- Moon kaleidoscope - multifaceted - breaking up into beautiful patterns
controlling my environment - control my environment - see what I want to see - finding patterns when they don't exist - making the mundane interesting
AW- object as an idea - is an idea an object? if an idea were an object what would it look like? objects as ideas.
An issue with technology
being able to touch stuff and hold it in your hands.
putting things in your pockets
studied theology
The cloud of unknowing.
the only way we can know something is to unknow something - undoing - reflecting against the grain for what knowledge it. trying to know stuff that we can't really ever fully know.
Mphil - in medieval theology -Cambridge
not religious and didn't want to be a vicar or something
teacher training - taught religious studies?
realised the power of their imagination - massive ideas were easy for them to talk about adults were closed off from them. children -
worked at kettles yard - loved talking o people about the things in the house.
Cut out again
Museums Sheffield
Ruskin gallery
There she met Kimberley - Object dialogue box - unravels across the floor - the objects within it are like compasses that can guide you or interact with the exhibitions/displays
Manchester gallery - object dialogue box - beehive - trolley - tower
Phobia to buttons - a cat with buttons on its head -koumpounophobia fear of buttons
Mary Greg - 1850-1950 - collector - spoons, textiles etc - not displayed.
Mary Greg box - like a house sewing kit -
BREAK
a box to take it out - the first version is a museum-style box - plastisol - uses for holding objects can be cut with a hot knife
house box - Karl Foster - used to take the collection out
Royal Armouries - Leeds - a collection of weapons, guns etc
conservation cf. access
Sainsbury centre for visual arts, University of East Anglia - Norman Foster architect - aircraft hanger - supposed to look like their living room - intimate but situated in a big open space.
Lie down in a gallery - booklet
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