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Topographies of the Obsolete is an artistic research project initiated by Professors Neil Brownsword and Anne Helen Mydland at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) in collaboration with partner universities/institutions in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France and the UK. In 2012 the British Ceramics Biennial invited Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) to develop a site-specific artistic response to the former Spode Factory in Stoke-on-Trent as a key element of their 2013 exhibition programme. The project explores the landscape and associated histories of post-industry, with an initial emphasis on Stoke-on-Trent, a world-renowned ceramics capital that bears evidence of fluctuations in global fortunes.
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Topographies of the Obsolete is an artistic research project initiated by Professors Neil Brownsword and Anne Helen Mydland at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) in collaboration with partner universities/institutions in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France and the UK. In 2012 the British Ceramics Biennial invited Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) to develop a site-specific artistic response to the former Spode Factory in Stoke-on-Trent as a key element of their 2013 exhibition programme. The project explores the landscape and associated histories of post-industry, with an initial emphasis on Stoke-on-Trent, a world-renowned ceramics capital that bears evidence of fluctuations in global fortunes.
KMD, Arild Berge -
Topographies of the Obsolete -
2022
Neil Brownsword, FACTORY with Rita Floyd, 2017. Photo: Korea Ceramic Foundation.
Phase two has extended rhizomatic connections between individual lines of enquiry and the project’s overarching research strands to facilitate new trajectories where each partner institution has furthered discourse through an active and evolving process of investigation. The Phase two publication "Rhizomatic Trajectories" draws together reflections nurtured through Topographies’ contextualising platform from both invited scholars and artists who remain connected to the project. It comprises of a range of descriptive, narrative and poetic texts which elucidate questions, contexts and methods that offer an alternative historiography of postindustrial sites and situations."
Returns exhibition, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, 2015. Photo: Andrew Brown
Film Still: Chloë Brown, A Soft Rebellion in Paradise, 2019, HD Video, Duration 09:24, Northern Order Films & Pencil Trick Productions.
Christine Stevens, On the Non-Verbal Transmission of Knowledge, Whispering Pot. Photo: Christine Stevens
Neil Brownsword, Externalizing the Archive, British Ceramics Biennial 2019. Photo: Arild Våge Berge
Film still: Chloe Brown, Dancing in the Street, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, songwriters: Ivy Jo Hunter, Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson, 1965, Duration 02:40, Motown Records.
Danica Maier Pussy Willow 2014 Photo: David Rowan
Neil Brownsword, Externalizing the Archive, British Ceramics Biennial 2019. Mould Scanning. Photo: Arild Våge Berge
Factory, with Wonjeong Lee, Icheon World Ceramic Centre, South Korea, 2017
