FERROcity: Iron in the city
(2022)
author(s): Stephen Edward Bottomley
published in: Research Catalogue
Jewellery and objects by twenty-two contemporary makers displayed alongside gemmological samples and photography that explores the interpretation and influence of Iron as catalyst, material and fundamental element of life. The exhibition was co-curated by Professor Stephen Bottomley, Head of School and Elizabeth Turrell visiting Professor at School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University.
This 2019 international touring exhibition brought together fascinating artistic responses to the theme of iron by twenty-two contemporary makers, including works by academic staff from Birmingham’s eminent School of Jewellery and invited international artists.
It explored iron is a material that has become synonymous with human life and civilisation and as such has become embedded in both our language and understanding of the world
FERROcity showcased a breadth of approaches to this fascinating but familiar material. Ideas explore the interpretation and influence of Iron as catalyst, material, and fundamental element of life, culminating in contemporary metalwork and jewellery ranging from steel vessels to recycled iron nail jewellery. Alongside this gemmological samples and photography taken on specialist microscopes was commissioned from the Gemmology department at the School of Jewellery which captured the transformative effect iron has on the colouration of gemstones.
The show opened in Germany at the Museum Reich der Kristalle, Mineralogical State Collection, Munich and ran in tandem with the city’s international jewellery fair ‘Inhorgenta’ in February 2019 and ‘International Jewellery Week’ and ‘Schmuck’ exhibitions over February and March 2019. The exhibition then moved to the Vittoria Street Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, April 2019 and was invited to China as a special exhibition at the 4th International Art Jewellery Exhibition at the Beijing Institute of Fashion and Textiles October 2019 before moving to the Academy of International Visual Arts, Shanghai November 2019 until it closed in December 2019.
Exhibitors
School of Jewellery:
Dauvit Alexander, Jivan Astfalck, Stephen Bottomley, Jeremy Hobbins, Bridie Lander, Anna Lorenz,
Sarah O’Hana, Drew Markou, Toni Mayner, Jo Pond, Rebecca Steiner, Elizabeth Turrell.
Invited artists:
Marianne Anderson, Tim Carson, Rachael Colley, Bettina Dittlmann, Christine Graf, Kirsten Haydon, Michael Jank, Joohee Han, Simone Nolden Jo Pudelko.
Exhibition Dates:
Germany, Munich | 21st February to 17th March 2019
United Kingdom, Birmingham| 1st April to 18th April 2019
China, Beijing |18th October to 28th October 2019
China, Shanghai| 31st October to 30th November 2019
Playing against the camera
(2020)
author(s): Erik Friis Reitan
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
In this essay I describe two projects within the field of visual art. Both works are examples of how the workflow techniques of digital photography can be modified in order to produce artworks that take on a distinct physicality and objecthood, and, as such, may form a spatial and/or haptic relation with the viewer. I discuss how such an approach relates to the ability of photography to point beyond the physical situation of viewing due to the particular virtuality of the photograph. By relating my work to the ideas of Vilém Flusser and Roland Barthes, recent theory on photography and photographic indexicality, as well as contemporary artistic work, I speculate here on how my own work illuminates perceptions of the photograph and understandings of the role of photography in today’s media culture and economy.
You and Me and Everything Around Us
(2020)
author(s): Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni
published in: Research Catalogue
Single channel video, 3’, 2008
The probe for the work was the philosophical question what it is to exist in the world: in environments, with others, people, objects, surfaces; and whether the answer can be intuited.
The work evokes the temporality of such experiences, which is contingent upon the ever-changing nature of things. Objects have often had multiple owners, and so they carry traces of previous worlds. When encountering objects new to us, we may find ourselves appropriating them through affective attachment to assimilate them into our world. Inspired by the everyday lives of the house's occupants, the work is also about the affective bonds developed during and because of their temporary co-existence.
Experimentation with overlaying resonates with the artistic expression of overlapping materials, textures, spatial qualities, and reflected images. Photographs, film footage and sounds were recorded in an improvised way over a one year period in an old house in Walthamstow, East London. The artistic treatment of the subject matter as a time-based media assemblage, which exploits the home style video format, critiques popular staged presentations of everyday life, while exploring the house as an evolving over time system.
Objects that Matter - Performance Art and Objects
(2019)
author(s): Pilvi Porkola
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
The Study on Objects (2018-) is an ongoing art project that focuses on everyday life objects we are surrounded by. While considering the objects and working with videos, I contemplate the relationship between new materialism and performance art. Feminist new materialism offers a perspective to explore many performance art works that reveal how we are related to objects and how we deal with them.
Body-Object Intersections: Touch Model
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): Barbis Ruder
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The touch model is a first attempt at describing the space between
the body and the object as a new form: their intersection.
The touch is the intersection, and it builds a shape with various
specifications.
Project Description Artistic Research Project n°1 (Marching Session I-VI)
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Liz Rech
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This is the project description of my first artistic research project within the frame of the graduate school "Performing Citizenship" (HCU/Hamburg).
Title of the project:
Marching Session I-VI. Interaktive (Lecture-) Performance für Mit-Läufer und Schritt-Macher.
In the first phase I conducted six research workshops to research different topics:
I March and object
II March and film / documentation
III March and choreography
IV March and sound
V March and costume
VI March and voice
The outcome of the six research workshops was presented in a lecture performance at k3 - Choreographic Center in Hamburg/Germany (24.4.2016).
Research & Performance: Liz Rech
Objects: Kathrin Affentranger
After the lecture there was a physical workshop phase together with the audience. Finally the audience filled out a questionary.
The Drawing Board #6
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Rhiannon Jones
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Traci Kelly and Rhiannon Jones
Writing as object.
Writing as materiality.
Writing through the body.
Writing the subject into being.
A laboured breath, a subversive gesture, a consideration of materiality and difference are the urgent concerns of Traci Kelly and Rhiannon Jones as they write through the body. Resisting narrative and authorship they seek the preform and fractured modes of writing that adhere to a multivalent feminine.
This entry is offered as a sharing of some of the documentation gathered from an emerging body of work-in-progress. There have been encounters with other artists and researchers during the two-month residency, including Terry Shave, who made Kick and Kiss in response to witnessing the collaboration.
The artists have utilised this collaboration to destabilise language and expose its underlying structures. This project offers a feminine approach to writing, which often has a male primacy. The artists are interested in preform, sounds that do not yet make words and the performative quality of the body as both a written language and as a site of inscription. The installation of their residency documentation explores place and plays with the shifting roles of the readerly and the writerly, whether through body or physical spaces the work inhabits.
The Drawing Board
The Drawing Board is a space for handwritten performances that aims to turn a corridor into a destination and to return the walls of an old school building in Nottingham to their former use as a place of display. Curated by Michael Pinchbeck, The Drawing Board explores how we write, how we perform writing and how writing performs.
All rights Kelly and Jones 2018
Six Formats
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): ingrid cogne, Tobias Pilz
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The arts-based research project Six Formats (February 2015 - June 2018) analysed various formats commonly used in relation to arts-based knowledge articulation and/or communication in the present day: publication, exhibition, symposium, lecture-performance, screening, and workshop. Six Formats created situations of dialogue in, on, and between each of its formats. Six Formats facilitated co-processes of ongoing self-reflection and re-articulation aiming for reciprocal attentiveness to the respective needs of the project, its partners, and co-researchers. Six Formats was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, PEEK, AR291-G21) and hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
A Language of Things
(last edited: 2016)
author(s): Florian Dombois
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
What happens to language when we stop writing with letters, words, and other signs on paper and instead use three-dimensional objects? And if we go one step further and, rather than speaking with sounds, show one another objects in order to express ourselves? The "Language of Things" explores the possibilities of notation, communication, and poetry with a set of 100 shapes. Moving between translation and imagination, it extends its vocabulary as it proceeds.
The project began in August 2015 and makes use of Michael Schwab's 100 proto-objects:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/186304/186305
Documentation of Michael Schwab's exhibition (where the LOT were held back by Belgian customs inspection):
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/186304/219199
In this essay I describe two projects within the field of visual art. Both works are examples of how the workflow techniques of digital photography can be modified in order to produce artworks that take on a distinct physicality and objecthood, and, as such, may form a spatial and/or haptic relation with the viewer. I discuss how such an approach relates to the ability of photography to point beyond the physical situation of viewing due to the particular virtuality of the photograph. By relating my work to the ideas of Vilém Flusser and Roland Barthes, recent theory on photography and photographic indexicality, as well as contemporary artistic work, I speculate here on how my own work illuminates perceptions of the photograph and understandings of the role of photography in today’s media culture and economy.open exposition comments (0)
The Study on Objects (2018-) is an ongoing art project that focuses on everyday life objects we are surrounded by. While considering the objects and working with videos, I contemplate the relationship between new materialism and performance art. Feminist new materialism offers a perspective to explore many performance art works that reveal how we are related to objects and how we deal with them.open exposition comments (0)
The touch model is a first attempt at describing the space between the body and the object as a new form: their intersection. The touch is the intersection, and it builds a shape with various specifications.open exposition comments (0)
The arts-based research project Six Formats (February 2015 - June 2018) analysed various formats commonly used in relation to arts-based knowledge articulation and/or communication in the present day: publication, exhibition, symposium, lecture-performance, screening, and workshop. Six Formats created situations of dialogue in, on, and between each of its formats. Six Formats facilitated co-processes of ongoing self-reflection and re-articulation aiming for reciprocal attentiveness to the respective needs of the project, its partners, and co-researchers. Six Formats was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, PEEK, AR291-G21) and hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.open exposition comments (0)
What happens to language when we stop writing with letters, words, and other signs on paper and instead use three-dimensional objects? And if we go one step further and, rather than speaking with sounds, show one another objects in order to express ourselves? The "Language of Things" explores the possibilities of notation, communication, and poetry with a set of 100 shapes. Moving between translation and imagination, it extends its vocabulary as it proceeds. The project began in August 2015 and makes use of Michael Schwab's 100 proto-objects: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/186304/186305 Documentation of Michael Schwab's exhibition (where the LOT were held back by Belgian customs inspection): https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/186304/219199open exposition comments (0)