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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
De Montfort University
The Thought of Stuff - 'The Thought of Stuff' was co-curated by Leila Galloway and Andy Price (Senior Lecturer at DMU), it was an exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculptors (20/05/10 to 11/06/10), London, a performed talk at the Shipwright Maters Palace in Deptford, a catalogue (ISBN 978-1-85721-406-2) and a website: http://www.mittencrab.com.
'The Thought of Stuff' was co-curated by Leila Galloway and Andy Price (Senior Lecturer at DMU), it was an exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculptors (20/05/10 to 11/06/10), London, a performed talk at the Shipwright Maters Palace in Deptford, a catalogue (ISBN 978-1-85721-406-2) and a website: http://www.mittencrab.com.
The research questioned if a ‘physical symposium’ could promote dialogue about materiality and its place in contemporary practice. Galloway and Price wrote the catalogue introduction and commissioned an essay ‘Making-Do in Dyson’s Graveyard’ by Chris Mazeika (Shipwright’s Palace) to accompany the exhibition.
While the understanding of the visual as an embodied concept, couched in a range of material and performative strategies and practices, has become commonplace, as purely optical models of modernism have receded, it has been widely remarked that there has been a failure of vocabulary and of genuinely useful theoretical models in the face of materiality itself (see Elkins, J., On Some Limits of Art History and Materiality, 31: Das Magazin des Instituts für Theorie [Zürich] 12 (2008) for example).
The Thought of Stuff sought to engage with this paradigm-shift by making conversation an intimate and unconstrained part of the process. Galloway and Price aimed to enrich our visual experience of the physical, by examining the act of making, which embeds techne (know- how) and episteme (way of knowing).
Emerging and established internationally renowned artists (Alison Wilding, Jonathan Callan, Wayne Lucas, Adam Gillam, Esmeralda Valencia and Jack Strange) were invited to exhibit their work.
The seminar at the RBSS was attended by students from the RCA and DMU and chaired by Sam Thorne (Associate Editor of Frieze). It was documented and recorded: http://www.mittencrab.org/ (03/06/13: 63607 Hits) for future development as part of this project.
