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Dialogue in Place II– beyond medium specificity

This collaborative project with Associate Professor Joyce Lyon (University of Minnesota) draws from both authors' individual research. In new bodies of work they consider place in relation to time, intimacy, pilgrimage and dwelling, and explore how different media facilitate different modes of visual thinking. The project involves an exhibition installation that results from reflective dialogue over a period of 10 years and follows from a previous collaboration (Dialogue in Place, 2000). The exhibition will be supported by a catalogue publication (Artist Book) including an essay by Dr Iain Biggs, panel discussion and public lecture. (http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/embed/158749)

The research context of this output engages with creative strategies regarding the perception of time-space configurations within a contemporary art context. Its original contribution lies in a comparative exploration of media (and related discourses) whilst upholding medium specificity to engage in place as a site of becoming.

Linked to the above collaboration, is the paper The (Woven) Lining: Invisibility and Visibility in a Visual and Textual Exploration of the cinematic in Art. It considers notions of visibility and invisibility, presence and absence of figuration within the author’s practice, exploring differentiated time-space relations, the idea of ‘nomadic dwelling’ and Bracha L. Ettinger’s psychoanalytical concept of ‘matrixial borderlines’.

The collaborative video work (with Deborah Gardner) Journeys Across the Home (2010), shown in the travelling exhibition European Identities – Intercultural Dialogue of Women Artists in Europe, similarly addressed the format of the dialogue — here as artwork/documentary where photographs are juxtaposed with the voice-over of a conversation on conceptual/visual implications of place and dwelling.