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The objects highlighted here are more dependent upon movement.




in the videos below, buttons are poured from the enamel jug seen in the still image. The pouring of the buttons is a pedagogical activity that is regularly used in our teaching - it is discussed more fully in the 'thinking' section. In simple terms, learning dialogue is transformed by the emotional and visceral impact of the cascading buttons. Try playing all three at once.
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'pour' from karl & kimberley foster on Vimeo.



The above video is of an image of a spoon cut out from a colour print. The paper spoon catches the flow of air from the air conditioning system coming up through the floor of the gallery at Norwich Castle.. In the 'Rings of Saturn', Sebald writes Thomas Browne's prose :

'It is true that, because of the immense weight of the impediments he is carrying, Browne's writing can be held back by the force of gravitation, but when he does succeed in rising higher and higher through circles of spiralling prose, borne aloft like a glider on warm currents of air, even today the reader is overcome by a sense of levitation'. (Sebald, 2002, p.18)

The spoon acknowledges the air current, its tail flickers to life. Further into the 'Rings of Saturn', Sebald shows us an image of a 'Red Herring', that is not a red herring. It is a red herring.

W.G. Sebald (2002) The Rings of Saturn. (2nd edn.). Vintage Books : London
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  • home
  • sorhed
  • about
  • object collections
    • barnsley museums
    • museums sheffield
    • rochester cathedral
    • nantwich museum
    • museum of london docklands
    • imperial war museum
    • scva objects >
      • scva words on gallery wall
      • scva comments
    • manchester art gallery
    • turner contemporary
    • harewood house
    • creative criticism commission
    • british library
    • norfolk regimental museum
    • fermoy gallery - kings lynn arts centre
  • Ribbon Rolling
  • COMPASS Residency
  • Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowship
  • York Museums Trust
  • Henry Moore Foundation
  • PhD Practice Research
    • after the before >
      • trans-formations
  • Prosthetic Pedagogy - A Guide
  • CAL and CMUK
  • moving things
  • archived objects
    • independents >
      • on white
      • on black
      • between a rock and a hard place
      • kitchen thinking
    • incantated objects
    • pre positional
  • films
  • image
  • early research process
    • Locked down processes
  • if → then, and, but
    • archive
  • contact