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Image Matter: Art and Materiality (Manchester, 6 Nov 15)
 
Manchester Metropolitan University, November 6, 2015
 
AAH New Voices Conference
 
Image Matter: Art and Materiality
 
Friday, 6 November 2015
Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design 
(MIRIAD)
Manchester School of Art
Manchester Metropolitan University
 
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Hanneke Grootenboer (University of Oxford): The Pensive Image
Professor Carol Mavor (University of Manchester): FULL: A Film for 
Visualising the Materiality of Voice
 
How do art historians interpret matter? How about artists, makers, 
theorists and critics? New Voices 2015 explores approaches to 
materiality and the material in light of developing discourses that 
implicate art history, art practice and visual and material culture 
studies. Much recent art historical and visual culture literature has 
argued for the reinstatement of the bodily and the material in art and 
its encounter, rejecting the pre-eminence of a disembodied eye in 
favour of a wider range of somatic responses: touching, hearing, 
tasting, smelling. Similarly, the material physicality of the art 
object in its myriad forms—surface, texture, weight, spatial extension, 
sound etc—has recaptured our attention.
 
In light of a ‘material turn’ in visual culture-related disciplines, 
Image Matter: Art and Materiality poses a number of questions: How can 
writing about and through art accommodate affective objects? How have 
artists negotiated the conflict of a spectatorship which disregards 
hapticity, surface and substance? How do traditions of connoisseurship 
engage with contemporary theories of materiality? Or, perhaps 
pointedly, does the questionable pre-eminence of visuality also 
evidence an increased derogation of manual labour in lieu of the more 
cerebral? New Voices 2015 takes place within the intellectual and 
creative space of the art school, the messy realm of art production. It 
therefore asks how (the) material and its associated places of 
production and ‘consumption’—from the studio to the gallery—can be 
integrated in the discourses of art history and its objects.
 
Schedule
 
8.45-9.15    Registration
 
9.15-9.30    Welcome
 
9.30-11.30    Session 1
 
Session 1 ‘Hapticity and Affect’
•    Thalia Allington-Wood: Fiery Fictions: Volcanic Rock and Historic 
Imagination at the Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo
•    Sara Davies: Rehearsing with Bergman: Examining Diasporic Touch 
through Art Practice 
•    Julie Boivin: Viral Decorative Prosthesis: The Affective Potential 
of Rococo Ornamentation
•    Alan Boardman: Manuel DeLanda and the Nonorganic Life of Affect
 
11.30-12.00    Tea/Coffee break
 
12.00-13.15    Keynote    Prof. C. Mavor: FULL: A Film for Visualising 
the Materiality of Voice
 
13.15-14.00    Lunch break
 
14.00-15.00    Sessions 2a/2b
 
Session 2a ‘Material Practices’
•    Katie McGown: Fallen, Draped and Torn: The Unstable History of 
Cloth in 20th-Century Sculpture 
•    Tom Hastings: S–105 (Eva Hesse, 1968) and the Matter of 
Interpreting a ‘Not Quite Artwork’
 
Session 2b ‘Material Values’
•    Lindsey Schreiber: ‘Praiseworth and Masterly’: Wood Intarsia in 
the Gubbio Studiolo
•    Martha Cattell: Animal Matter: Fashioning Whalebone in the 19th 
Century
 
15.15-16.45    Sessions 3a/3b
 
15.15-16.46    Session 3a ‘Surface/Depth’
•    Claire Shepherd: Making as Meaning in the Work of Keith Vaughan
•    Jennifer Johnson: Noli me tangere: On Not-Touching and Not Knowing 
in Georges Rouault’s Modernism
•    Laurie Taylor: Superficial Matters: The Active & Passive Surfaces 
of Exhibition Photography
 
Session 3b ‘Societal Matters’
•    Alexandra Lester-Makin: The Art of Early Medieval Embroidery
•    Ralph Mills: ‘Very fine, very cheap, very pretty!’ The 
Three-Dimensional Materiality of Nineteenth-Century ‘Images’
•    Harry Stirrup: Rubbed, Scratched and Recycled: The Medieval 
Afterlife of some Twelfth-Century English Manuscripts
 
16.45-17.15    Tea/Coffee break
 
17.15-18.15    Keynote    Prof. H. Grootenboer: The Pensive Image
 
18.15-19.15    Reception
 
Registration includes: Two keynote addresses, fourteen papers 
showcasing new research; lunch, refreshments and drinks reception.
Tickets: £25, AAH Members £18
 
Bookings at www.aah.org.uk/events/new-voices-conferences or call +44 
(0)20 7490 3211
 
Enquiries at [log in to unmask]
 
Convenors: Liz Mitchell, Rosalinda Quintieri and  Tilo Reifenstein 
 
Supported by Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art 
and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University

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