Felt Propositions
Sarah Robson
exhibition 17 October – 3 November, 2019
opening on Wednesday 16 October 2019, 6 – 8pm
artist talk Sunday 27 October, 2pm "Contingency and the Singular Art Object"
Sarah Robson
exhibition 17 October – 3 November, 2019
opening on Wednesday 16 October 2019, 6 – 8pm
artist talk Sunday 27 October, 2pm "Contingency and the Singular Art Object"
Felt Propositions is a dynamic installation intended to engage the space of STACKS Projects in a series of visual propositions exploring the theoretical and somatic experience of our interactions with materially extant, non-objective artworks. The omnipresent screen has become a filter for our lived experiences, mediating our direct interactions with the world, distancing somatic experience as well as confining contextual relationships, Felt Propositions aims to reconnect the viewer with the somatic and relational experience of non-objective artworks through their material presence, progressive rearrangement and conceptual reframing. Part conversation, part exhibition, part performance, this exhibition initiates a series of provisional ‘open’ works to explore, question andre-propose the singular work of art.
Felt Propositions comprises a series of ‘open’ artworks constructed from industrial felt and string. The individual pieces do not remain fixed throughout the exhibition but instead provide a vocabulary with different configurations engendering different relationships, conceptual readings and conversations. In a series of ‘performances’ during the exhibition period the elements will be re-hung, rotated and recombined to posit the works as a series of relational propositions rather than individual, static artworks. Felt Propositions aims to challenge the autonomy of the ‘specific’ artwork and reposition it, and the artistic process, in an organic, systemic and relational construct.
This installation has been generated by my desire to understand more fully how an artwork is transformed from a collection of parts into a meaningful system, how the performative and happenstance in process embed meaning, and the role of the materially extant artwork in the 21st century.
Sarah Robson gratefully acknowledges the support of an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and RMIT University
Felt Propositions comprises a series of ‘open’ artworks constructed from industrial felt and string. The individual pieces do not remain fixed throughout the exhibition but instead provide a vocabulary with different configurations engendering different relationships, conceptual readings and conversations. In a series of ‘performances’ during the exhibition period the elements will be re-hung, rotated and recombined to posit the works as a series of relational propositions rather than individual, static artworks. Felt Propositions aims to challenge the autonomy of the ‘specific’ artwork and reposition it, and the artistic process, in an organic, systemic and relational construct.
This installation has been generated by my desire to understand more fully how an artwork is transformed from a collection of parts into a meaningful system, how the performative and happenstance in process embed meaning, and the role of the materially extant artwork in the 21st century.
Sarah Robson gratefully acknowledges the support of an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and RMIT University
Images courtesy of Document Photography