Provenance - Couverture souple

Cockayne, Angela; Hoare, Philip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956646204 ISBN 13 : 9780956646200

Editeur : Wunderkammer Press, 2010

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Angela Cockayne, born Yorkshire now lives and works in Bath, England. She is an artist, curator and Senior Lecturer with Reader in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts at Bath Spa University. Her books include Provenance 2010 and Dominion 2011 both co authored with Philip Hoare and published by Wunderkammer Press. Her recent project, Provenance, 2010, melds wax sculpture with found natural objects. Her work has recently toured with the House of Fairy Tales Exquisite Trove, an exhibition inspired by cabinets of curiosities or wunderkammer. Dominion incorporates Cockayne s chimerical objects, part animal, part sculpture, with Philip Hoare s physical interaction with sperm whales. Using artwork and text thrown up by this new meeting of art, literature, music and science, the result is an aesthetic sermon on the state of the whale and the world. The film of the same name has been screened as part of the Dark Monarch exhibition Tate St Ives 2009 and recently Tate Liverpool. Cockayne uses found objects to create provocative assemblies of discarded bottles and gannets' wings, human hair and antique rifles and lobster-clawed women. Beautiful and disturbing, they concern the natural world and the human predicament.' Philip Hoare Every day nature offers us beautiful objects that we fail to appreciate because we see them only in the too-familiar context of their mundane roles. By taking them out of their usual contexts, Angela Cockayne makes us see them afresh, and in the process, creates an endearing whimsical bestiary all her own. Desmond Morris Philip Hoare is the author of six works of non-fiction. His latest book, Leviathan or, The Whale, won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. An experienced broadcaster, he wrote and presented BBC 2's Arena: The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC's Whale Night. He is a visiting fellow at Southampton University, and Leverhulme Artist-in-residence at The Marine Institute, University of Plymouth, which recently awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This international exhibition and symposium was initially based on a response to a rediscovered natural history collection, which originated as specimens for drawing classes used for teacher training at Bath Academy of Art in the 1950s. The collection has recently been relocated back to its original home at Corsham Court, Wiltshire. The Wunderkammer, or wonder chamber, is a non-hierarchical collection of curiosities, natural specimens, miraculous objects, and the obscure, whimsical, and wonderful which defy categorical boundaries. The exhibition and symposium explore a relationship with the history and ethics of collecting natural specimens, and address questions posed by a collision of the past, present and the future of such collections. The exhibition also examines the act of reading a collection in the absence of the original collector, and the extent to which one s interest in a collection re examines any curatorial or objective agendas. Provenance, like the wunderkammer is a commentary on the naturalistic representation of the physical world, to stimulate conversation, inspire wonder, and to provide a threshold to view our own reflection in the ambiguous connections between the natural world and humanity.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wunderkammer Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0956646204
• ISBN 13: 9780956646200
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 110