Exhibition practices and permeable relationships
Speakers: Sarah Goffman, Ann Finegan and Margaret Roberts
This
session examines the relationships promoted by exhibition practices, including
relationships between artworks and their location, between artists and audience
and between exhibitions and art practices. The session will focus on exhibition
practices that support the move away from the convention of spatial and other
autonomy in artwork. This convention was questioned throughout the twentieth
century, from Constructivism to Happenings to Relational Aesthetics. Daniel
Buren included his observations of the negative effect of mobility on artwork
in his justification for his own site-related practice in The Function of the Studio.
In The White Cube, Brian
O'Doherty claimed that gallery conventions adjusted during the twentieth
century so as to contain artists' attempts to construct new relationships with
the space beyond the frame. This
session will discuss three current exhibition practices in the light of the
ongoing evolution of these historic developments.
Notes for the project space project paper are here.
Images of the Lodz Art and Documentation Festival 2012 here
See archive of project space projects at Articulate since 2011 here