How important is the space that the objects are given and activated in? When is the encounter at its full force? The objects finding space and connections with the gallery is not the purpose of the project - this is still relevant but it really allows a deeper connection for the participant with their object and the relationship and ownership they have over the response that forms through it. The conversations and responses that formed when Mark, Lloyd, Laura, Jo and Sophie opened their objects, in their houses is not diminished for not being within the gallery. The gallery serves as the location of other objects -beings -matter that is both communicative and disembodied from a reality but it's pupose for the pedagogical object is a landscape for thinking and yet only one of the contextualising moments for the new object.
When Lloyd placed his object in with the pencils in the SCVA shop it didn't change the status of his object for the interpretation taking place within the commercial commodities of the gallery shop. It was appropriate that it landed there and that Mark and Sophie recognised why lloyd would have placed it there. The landing point of recognition for these object -human-non human relations is flucuating and restless. Things land and momentarily settle to allow conversations that have been previously untold and as i mentioned before a 'building ' is taking place, a construction of meaning. They all seek recognition of some kind but often move past the obvious towards the evocative the metaphorical, the emotional connections that move them forward and propel their objects beyond form. The matter is mobilsed through its action - intra- action and through its belonging.
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Kimberley FosterKimberley's practice as an artist is pedagogical, it doesn’t just reference learning, it plays with, embodies and encourages learning at its core. The objects consider ideas of collaboration and authorship, discussions about touch and encounter, and bring into active consideration issues of learning within social and participatory practices. Archives
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