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A topian artistic methodology (2022)

Kevin Walker

About this exposition

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’.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsutopia, dystopia, architecture, Archaeology, ontology
date30/12/2022
published29/12/2022
last modified29/12/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightKevin Walker
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/940881/1821932
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.940881
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue28. 28


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941076 Parthenon frieze in the British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941079 Detail of Parthenon frieze Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941082 Becoming Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941085 Expanded Museum residency studio/gallery entrance Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941611 A wall in Athens Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941643 Utopia as artistic methodology Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941683 Page from Roelstraete's Way of the Shovel marked up by Ana Helena Arévalo Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941688 One of the Parthenon friezes at the British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941818 Enlightenment at the British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941830 Ancient Greek gold rings at the British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941835 The Acropolis, Athens Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941866 Parthenon sculpture at the British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941918 Diagram from PhD research Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941930 Parthenon Gallery at the British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941948 Beheaded statues in the Parthenon Gallery, British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941972 Photo of marble frieze printed on tracing paper, mounted on lightbox, sitting on a marble mantlepiece Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941982 Portion of 'friezes & fragments' by Ana Helena Arévalo Ana Helena Arévalo All rights reserved
941988 Sketchbook drawing Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941991 Sculpture in Parthenon Gallery, British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
941999 Sculpture in Parthenon Gallery, British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942016 Photo of fragment from British Museum used in work by Ana Helena Arévalo Ana Helena Arévalo All rights reserved
942034 Drawing on folded tracing paper, mounted on lightbox Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942063 Theatre production spotted in Athens Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942071 Spacetime exploration no.2 (2019) Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942130 Spinning rock in Stavros Niarchos Foundation gardens Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942169 Centaur attacking a human in Parthenon metope Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942219 Ancient mobile phone user depicted in a Parthenon frieze, British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942259 Reconstructed Parthenon façade at British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942461 3D displacement map of a frieze fragment Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942462 3D displacement map of a frieze fragment Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942524 Print from the series Return to Stone hanging above a marble staircase at the Expanded Museum exhibition. Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942658 Topographic experiment Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942752 Parthenon Gallery at the British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942759 One end of the Parthenon Gallery, British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942791 Return to Stone print Kevin Walker All rights reserved
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942804 Statue of Iris in British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942805 Detail of statue of Iris in British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942806 Exhibition view Ana Helena Arévalo All rights reserved
942808 Return to Stone print in exhibition Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942832 friezes & fragments posters by Ana Helena Arévalo Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942835 detail of Parthenon frieze Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942840 Displacement map of frieze fragment Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942842 Video moving across displacement map Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942843 View from inside displacement map 'frieze' Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942845 Video moving across displacement map Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942878 Speculative site map of British Museum's Parthenon Gallery as a future ruin Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942879 Speculative stratigraphy diagram of the British Museum's Parthenon Gallery as a future ruin. Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942897 Top view of Acropolis model in British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942909 Acropolis Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942918 Small artefacts in British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
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942922 Small artefacts in British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942924 Small artefacts in British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942927 Small artefacts in British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
942931 Contemporary Archaeologies exhibition announcement Ana Helena Arévalo All rights reserved
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1475250 Return to Stone Kevin Walker All rights reserved
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1475278 Parthenon Gallery, British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
1475340 Sculptures in Parthenon Gallery, British Museum Kevin Walker All rights reserved
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