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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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