Material Witnesses
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- Tickets
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Free
- Dates and times
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3rd Feb 2018
2:00PM - 3:00PM
- Age
- All ages
This presentation draws upon
Susan Schuppli’s research exploring the evidential role of matter. In pursuing
this research she has examined a wide range of materials that have recorded
trace-evidence of the violence that generated their contexts and explore the
institutional and disciplinary protocols that enable their latent histories to
be rendered intelligible and made to speak, even if their “speech acts”
oftentimes fall upon deaf ears or challenge accepted truths. Throughout
Schuppli has tried to account for the myriad ways in which the responsiveness
of matter to external forces demands an acute and renewed sense of material and
technical specificity in order to grasp the full political implications that
such ongoing changes or interactions might yield.
Susan Schuppli is an artist
and researcher based in the UK, whose work examines material evidence from war
and conflict to environmental disasters.Current work explores the ways in which
toxic ecologies from nuclear accidents and oil spills to the dark snow of the
arctic are producing an “extreme image” archive of material wrongs. Creative projects have been exhibited
throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, and the US. Forthcoming and recent projects include Slick Images,
an installation for the SculptureCenter, NY, Trace
Evidence, a video trilogy
commissioned by Arts Catalyst UK & Bildmuseet, Sweden and Atmospheric Feedback Loops, a
Vertical Cinema commission for Sonic Acts, Amsterdam. She has published widely within the
context of media and politics and is author of the forthcoming book, Material Witness (MIT
Press). Schuppli is Senior Lecturer and Acting Director of the Centre for
Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London and was previously
Senior Research Fellow on the Forensic Architecture project. In 2016 she
received the ICP Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research.
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