Image: Helen Johnson, Return to interpreting the world more explicitly, Digital video still, dimensions variable, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery.
Artists: Sarah crowEST, 3-ply, Carolyn Eskdale, Nathan Gray, Bianca Hester, Helen Johnson, Katie Lee with Andrew Sainsbury, Elizabeth Newman, Sophie Takách, Isadora Vaughan.
Curator: Rebecca Coates
Opening Celebration: Thu 10 Sept, 5.30–7.30 PM
Exhibition Dates: 11 September to 3 October 2020
What influence does critical theory have on contemporary art and artists? Conceived as an expanded proposition, this exhibition explores one of the current ‘critical turns’, New Materialisms. What is this New Materialisms beyond a literary or theoretical series of positions and how might it inform an artistic process? How does the material practice of art speak back to critical theory? The exhibition examines the dialogue between practice and theory through the lens of new materialisms within an academic, practice-led research context and gallery space.
Forum | As part of the exhibition program and the VCA Art Forum series a debate will be held on Thursday 17 September 12.30 – 1.30pm, Federation Hall, Grant Street, Southbank. The motion of the debate is: that new materialisms is old hat.
Margaret Lawrence Gallery | 40 Dodds Street, Southbank, Melbourne
Opening hours: 12:00pm – 5:00pm, Tuesday to Saturday | Website: http://vca.unimelb.edu.au/engage/margaret-lawrence-gallery
This exhibition is presented to coincide with Transversal Practices: Matter, Ecology and Relationality, VI Conference on New Materialisms, 28/29 September 2015. The Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. More information here.