Well, the daffodils are out and there will be sun coming through the Sawtooth roof and warming the front space around the Thunking Table. Time to recall where we left off in the dead of winter with the Thinker in Residence's formal departure, and pick up and plan for the run into 2014. It would be great to build up the critical interest in some new work that will soon be in the Sawtooth galleries, and to plan for the follow up New Materialism (NM) roundtable, as flagged at the winter meeting, and which would "book end" the Thinker's project for 2013.
September starts with Junction, the Launceston-wide international arts festival, which will provide a load of art and performance experiences that can be addressed through the NM frame -- or not, depending on how convinced you are of its critical worth! At Sawtooth, there will be the fabulous ENUCLEO: CONTEMPORARY CLAY exhibition, curated by Sawtooth people Serena Rosevear and Patrick Sutczak, currently at 146 Elizabeth, in Hobart.https://www.facebook.com/EuncleoContemporaryClay The work, from a nationally-sourced group of artists using clay to materialise their ideas, would form a wonderful basis for further critique of NM. The Sawtooth Thinker in Residence will be "in conversation" with one of the key artists, Penny Byrne, on Wednesday 18 September, so check out Enucleo and Sawtooth on FB for details.https://www.facebook.com/sawtooth.ari?fref=ts
The Thinker suggests that the NM roundtable reconvenes while the Enucleo show is still up, and while Junction is fresh in our minds. A meeting mid-September would also provide a terrific lead-in to the October shows at Sawtooth, particularly that involving Team Textiles, with the promise of artist floor talks and possible writing opportunities that could be underscored by some of the NM issues (Hint!!!).
As before, the roundtable will be by invitation only, with discussion continuing on this blog. Invitees will be contacted individually by Sawtooth once date/time has been confirmed. Watch this space in the coming days for more New Materialist news ...
Just off to pick up Alien Phenomenology By Ian Bogost from Fullers: so hopefully before next discussion the trees won't be the only thing blossoming!
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime Deb, I will anticipate your chat with Penny Byrne, whose work I adore.
Hey Josh ... this sounds great! Get ready to tell us all about it.
ReplyDeleteBTW -- have you come across 'Cyclonopedia'?
I hadn't but just had a quick look at the content and some reviews and appears to be an intriguing specimen! Will be sure to put it on my list. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteSame here: quick look quite a while back then it loomed again recently and it fits with a history/fiction side interest I'm developing, so have it on order. Also, as recommended by Erin Sickler in an earlier post, the journal on NM and food is (hopefully) heading this way. It has a contents list that really does seem to push out a lot of boats -- hoping it lives up to that promise.
ReplyDeleteHave now also acquired Leper Creativity, a symposium on Cyclonopedia. No chance of reading it by Saturday, though! On another, more-or-less related front, Mick Carter, who has written scads of wonderful stuff on "imaginary materials" (see earlier posts on 'things') has just released a book called Overdressed, which is a study of the affect and effect of clothing, through a range of positions from Barthes to Darwin (!) as an ontology of wearing. Whether it specifically mention NM, don't know -- but it will certainly be addressing some aspects of materiality.
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