?Art is a Process Defined by Its Context?
University Union, Chesapeake Room
Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m.
The Artists? Placement Group, a radical group of British artists working out of London in the last part of the twentieth century, used to have a motto which ran: ?The Context is Half the Work?. What they meant by this was, at its simplest, where a work was situated was as important to its meaning as how and why it was made. Many artists have made public artworks, but fewer have been successful in understanding the changes in approach that are necessary once an artwork is removed from the neutral, ?white-box? of the gallery into the contested space of the public realm. British artist Sally J. Morgan has specialized in ?contextual practice? in the UK, Europe, and New Zealand. Her work has included site-specific installations and performances, and ?New Genre Public Art? with community participants. In this talk she discusses some of the issues arising from that practice.
Sally J Morgan is Professor of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington New Zealand. She has exhibited at the ICA in London, Arnolfini in Bristol, England and various other well-respected venues in the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, as well as producing commissioned ?contextual? pieces. She has published numerous articles on contextual art practice, and wrote the opening chapter of ? Art with People?, edited by Malcolm Dickson and published by Artic Press in 1995
Art department Speaker Series
Free and Open to the Public
