Exposition

Building Material Conversations (2019)

Scott Andrew Elliott, Chris Cottrell

About this exposition

An expanded notion of conversation is developed through a series of large-scale temporary installations, and used to articulate an approach to collaborative creative practice that furthers the discourse of new materialist philosophy. These collaboratively produced installations are introduced into different spaces of a singular building in an iterative engagement sustained over a period of five years. In order to engage "conversationally" with the building, the projects adopt and rephrase the architectural language of their environment. An expanded conversation occurs between materials, creative practitioners, and the architectural site. This conversational approach is extended through an experimental writing project, where a “cut-up” writing technique functions as a third author that disrupts, complicates, and needs to be accounted for through the writing process. An iterative series of texts reflect on the ideas at play in the installations, raising new questions that are addressed in later installation projects. The built projects and the experimental writings raise larger questions about relationships between humans and surrounding environments, which unfold through our collaborative journey of creatively “getting to know” a building.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsInstallation Art, New Materialism, Architectural Research, collaboration, experimental writing
date16/08/2017
published18/01/2019
last modified18/01/2019
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationMonash University
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/384876/384877
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.384876
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue17. 17


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comments: 1 (last entry by Victoria Hunter - 23/01/2019 at 11:05)
Victoria Hunter 23/01/2019 at 11:05

This is a very interesting and engaging account of a creative intervention into built space informed by ideas and themes of new materialist practice and theory. The submission provides a very pragmatic and informative overview of the the project's key concerns, methods and practices and usefully presents some of the resulting materials (such as creative writing assemblages) that help to illustrate how the researchers investigated both the key research concerns and specific modes of presenting emerging research materials in a format that offers real insight for other researchers / artists and offers useful examples / approaches for others to employ. I thoroughly enjoyed the balance of reflective writing, theoretical exploration, practical description, illustrations and images that helped to convey a sense of the complexity and many layered, multi-faceted nature of the research project.

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