Talk Week
Reflection & Notes
August 2021
Guest Speaker: Juliana Engberg
Process meets object, Material Maturity, Made performatively, more of a intimate performance of creating, Things aren't determined, Casting, Corrupted, adult corruption, Abject, abject art, Purposeful, Insatiable yet stable, Organized chaos, Balance, Points of investigation, 70s,Strong emotions coming out exhilarating, There is a structure in the abjectness, Dystopian, You made a connection to the materials, Having a knowingness of how the objects take up the space, Discovering of material relations/reshaping, Materials as gravity, mass, volume, trace, Otherworldly, Colour palette worlds, Temporal (overtime) what will happen over the next 2 weeks, The bucket shows that some objects are found, some are sculpted, This kind of marriage of objects, Lighting makes it come alive, Your work can take the viewer anywhere, different memories, experiences etc, Fantasy vs. Reality, A becoming as a being in the work, Performative: intimate ways, artist working with material, Action based, What is possible to be made with the body, Figuration: pre-determined as opposed to abstraction which is not predetermined, Observers determine the objects, Concept of the work - making, distribution, installation - ongoing, Plastic: a more prominent material which provides a more distinctive, experience of familiarity and/ unfamiliarity, speaking to adult corruption, Object - aesthetic, purposeful, Material maturity - external convincing deliberate approach, Deliberate application, Successful execution, Haphazard, balance , distillation, limited space, There was enough episodes, points of entry and points of investigation, 70s, sick and exhilarating, Apocalyptic, disruption, dystopian, abjectiveness, Knowingness, and the way the objects occupy the space is a constant discovery of material and the way things are reshaping, Nothing is artificial, everything presence to its own, gravity , mass, space, matter, Scale, discovery for the audience, Otherworldly, Passage of objects, water - not pretend, not artificial, Evaporation, transformation, Places to go, Reconstitute the action done to it, “Liberating the self from that” - the studio, Why the yellow bucket? To offset the muted palette of the work, Trail to the bucket is good, Formal Objects - bucket, Functioning objects - other materials, Structural presence, Not everything has been sculpted, Unknowingly, Narrative? - lens of fantasy, forcing disruption, Sculptural spatial practice (if it is a narrative, is pushed), Lighting - alive, Ambient, sound -noise constraints, Interestingly, silent sound is good, Elements, footage bomb, steel , corrosion, corruption, “Can take all of us anywhere” -Fiona, Fantasy lies within the process of making: the opening sentence is complex. Skin-body infurence, Process-making, Fragility, Body implicated, Not bound by time ,Escaping time, Denying time by becoming something different, Altered transcendence, Self defying, self defining, cause and effects, Terminal time, Chronicle time, Reversed time, Time is relative to something else, Material shape to time, Requires time to make entropy, transformation.
Enberg's background was informed by being a international curator so I was really taken back by the way she seemed to roam around a space or engaged with ones work. She also had quite a particular language and vocabulary that was wide and vast that added to my own knowledge of language within my own practice. There were a lot of concepts and observations that stuck with me not only in my own talk but in other peoples talks as well. Firstly it was the discussion around time, in Nadine Carter's work that stuck with me. Terminal time, Chronicle time, Reversed time these were all terms that I did not necessary hear before, it gave me more context behind the different ways time manifests in relation to time as a material or entity, this idea that time is bound to nothing but to everything. I felt this resonated within my own work with the use of water. Water seemingly manifested as the life source which nourished other materials, becoming a sort of extension of life. However, in regards to my own particular crit there was this word abject that came up in regards to the entropy. This idea of being 'cast off' or the materials being materials of disregard was defiantly a concept that stuck with me. However I just had a new vocabulary to this kind of material maturity that manifested throughout my exploration. There was also a discussion around how the materials seemed to existed being both simultaneously discovered, re-discovered and re-shaped. Fiona went on to say that this kind of material relationship allowed for that fantasy to be achieved because this unfamiliarity "allowed for the viewer to be taken anywhere."
