A topian artistic methodology

Kevin Walker

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This exposition details a methodology for artistic research based on the book Utopia as Method by sociologist Ruth Levitas. It involves specific methods at three levels of analysis: archaeological, architectural, and ontological. Practical work is produced using archaeological and architectural methods, aimed at triangulating onto contemporary ontological issues. The term ‘topian’ was chosen in order to incorporate both utopian and dystopian perspectives — this term, from the Greek ‘topos’ meaning place, frames an artistic practice in relation to one or more sites of investigation. The methodology was applied in a residency project split between London and Athens, focused on sculptures from the Parthenon that link the two cities. Museums in both cities served as sites of archaeological and architectural investigation. Work included speculative site mapping and stratigraphy, drawing and photography of artefacts, printmaking, and 3D modelling. Works were exhibited in a group exhibition in Athens, ‘Contemporary Archaeologies’.

type	research exposition
keywords	utopia, dystopia, architecture, Archaeology, ontology
date	30/12/2022
published	29/12/2022
last modified	29/12/2022
status	published
copyright	Kevin Walker
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/940881/1821932
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.940881
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	28. 28

name	Parthenon frieze in the British Museum
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name	Detail of Parthenon frieze
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name	Becoming
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name	Expanded Museum residency studio/gallery entrance
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name	Utopia as artistic methodology
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name	Top view of Acropolis model in British Museum
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name	Page from Roelstraete's Way of the Shovel marked up by Ana Helena Arévalo
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name	One of the Parthenon friezes at the British Museum
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name	Acropolis Museum
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name	The Acropolis, Athens
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name	Parthenon sculpture at the British Museum
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name	Diagram from PhD research
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name	Parthenon Gallery at the British Museum
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name	Photo of marble frieze printed on tracing paper, mounted on lightbox, sitting on a marble mantlepiece
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name	Drawing on folded tracing paper, mounted on lightbox
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name	Portion of 'friezes & fragments' by Ana Helena Arévalo
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name	Photo of fragment from British Museum used in work by Ana Helena Arévalo
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name	3D displacement map of a frieze fragment
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name	Screenshot 2020-04-15 at 19.45.53
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name	detail of Parthenon frieze
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name	Parthenon Gallery, British Museum
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name	One end of the Parthenon Gallery, British Museum
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name	Screen Recording 2020-04-16 at 16.09.13
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name	Sculptures in Parthenon Gallery, British Museum
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name	Enlightenment at the British Museum
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name	Spinning rock in Stavros Niarchos Foundation gardens
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