The Museum, the Artist and Intervention LOCATION | V&A Museum DATE | 10 January 2012 THE MUSEUM, THE ARTIST AND INTERVENTION Keynote speakers Alun Graves (Curator of Ceramics V&A), Professor Jorunn Veiteberg (Professor of Curatorial Studies and Craft Curator) and James Putnam (Freelance Curator) were invited to address the subject of collections, how museums can […]
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Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture,2016 (eds. Brown, C., Stair, J., Twomey, C.). Thisground-breakingbook examines how ceramic artists have, over the last decade, begun to animatemuseum collections in new ways, and reflects on the impact that these newinitiatives have had in the broad context of visual culture. […]
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Creating Interference: making art, developing methods, re-imagining histories/memories Creating Interference is an international symposium and network of researchers, artists and critics who creatively respond to and critically engage with memories and historical narratives. Our aim is to develop, explore and identify creative strategies to disrupt knowledge conventions and dominant discourses of the past. Experimental art […]
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Artist Clare Twomey transforms Tate Exchange into a factory making everyday objects from clay to explore ideas around the concept of production. In week one, a 30-metre production line, forty factory staff, eight tonnes of clay, a wall of drying racks, and over 2,000 fired clay objects will occupy the floor of Tate Exchange. You […]
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Made in collaboration with Brick Lane Jamme Masjid community, Jamaat (2018) (translated from Arabic meaning assembly) is made and exhibited respecting the religious and cultural rules of the mosque. Jamaat comprises of two simultaneous installations, one in the main prayer hall and one in the female prayer room. The mechanical recording device is used as an anonymous eye; in a […]
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