Academic Session: Nottingham 2004
sculpture/city/architecture/museum
Convenors:
Steven Gartside S.Gartside@mmu.ac.uk, Mancheser Metropolitan University.
Sam Gathercole Sam.Gathercole@liverpool.ac.uk School of Architecture & Building Engineering, University of Liverpool, Leverhulme Building, Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX.
Tel: 0151 794 2623
Abstract:
The strand considers the inter–connections between architecture, sculpture, the museum and the place of the city. The papers will focus on the tensions that occur between the ideal and the real, between theory and practice.
The spectator in the city automatically visually ranges over the forms and surfaces that are presented in the course of a journey, as the spectator in the art museum visually ranges over the objects on display. The strand explores ideas of context in relation to architecture and sculpture.
Work is produced with a desire for response. This can occur as a palpable reaction, or as something which slips easily into an accumulated visual language. Often the institutional desire to order, classify, document, isolate and control can have a deleterious effect on both object and experience. There are, perhaps, interesting possibilities in the consideration of the everyday processes of encounter. What are the (dis)connections with intention? What should be the role of ‘minor work’? What happens when categories such as ‘architecture’, ‘sculpture’ and ‘theory’ no longer seem to fit?
Steven Gartside S.Gartside@mmu.ac.uk, Mancheser Metropolitan University.
Sam Gathercole Sam.Gathercole@liverpool.ac.uk School of Architecture & Building Engineering, University of Liverpool, Leverhulme Building, Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX.
Tel: 0151 794 2623
Abstract:
The strand considers the inter–connections between architecture, sculpture, the museum and the place of the city. The papers will focus on the tensions that occur between the ideal and the real, between theory and practice.
The spectator in the city automatically visually ranges over the forms and surfaces that are presented in the course of a journey, as the spectator in the art museum visually ranges over the objects on display. The strand explores ideas of context in relation to architecture and sculpture.
Work is produced with a desire for response. This can occur as a palpable reaction, or as something which slips easily into an accumulated visual language. Often the institutional desire to order, classify, document, isolate and control can have a deleterious effect on both object and experience. There are, perhaps, interesting possibilities in the consideration of the everyday processes of encounter. What are the (dis)connections with intention? What should be the role of ‘minor work’? What happens when categories such as ‘architecture’, ‘sculpture’ and ‘theory’ no longer seem to fit?