Saturday 20th April 2013

School of Art History & World Art Studies 2013 Graduate Symposium

The symposium will take place in the lecture theatre in the School of Art History & World Art Studies, which is located within the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art at the University of East Anglia.

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Assemblage as a model for re-imagining and fragmenting the interpretation of material culture has been recognised across the disciplines of artistic practice, art history, anthropology, archaeology, heritage studies and museology. This inherently unstable model has taken different forms, including the creative reconfiguration of found objects and materials, and alternative strategies for classification and display. It has also been used as a framework for articulating de-centred approaches to relationships between people and ‘things’. What these forms share is a recognition that the properties of assemblages emerge from interactions between parts, allowing for movement and change, and generating unpredictable ‘emergent wholes’.

In A New Philosophy for Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006), Manuel DeLanda points to the importance of his readers’ visceral experience of the movement between these shifting points of interaction, and of the specific historical conditions in which assemblages develop. With this in mind, this graduate symposium brings together recent scholarship engaged with assemblage in relation to the creation and interpretation of objects and images in art practice, art history, design history, archaeology and visual culture. Focusing on the social and material networks that inform these processes, the work presented explores the contexts in which assemblages are constructed, the properties that have emerged in practice, and the usefulness of assemblage as a model for engaging with material culture across disciplines.

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IMAGE COURTESY OF JAMIE GEORGE © 2012

SPEAKERS

Natasha Adamou (University of Essex) Delirious Objects: Assemblage and the impact of Salvador Dalí’s paranoia-criticism in the work of Urs Fischer

Emily Crane (University of East Anglia) An assemblage of assemblages: art making in South Africa, 1975-present

Ewa Czapiewska (University College London) Beyond typology: Ceramic assemblages from the Maya site of El Zotz, Guatemala.

Jamie George (Artist) After the House, presentation and discussion of work

Robert Good (Artist) A Collection for Kettle’s Yard and Cut & Paste: Knowledge in the Internet Age, presentation and discussion of work

Manuela Husemann (University of East Anglia) Assembled Translations: The Reception of African Visual Culture in Publications in Imperial Germany

Lisa Maddigan (University of East Anglia) Ethnographic collage: some problems posed by Eduardo Paolozzi’s Lost Magic Kingdoms

Emily M. Orr (Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum) The Window Dresser: Framing Commercial Art

Chris Van Beck (University of Kent) A Fragmentary Assemblage, presentation and discussion of work

Martin Waldmeier (Goldsmiths, University of London) The Politics of Postproduction: Imag(in)ing the Syrian Civil War

Felicity Winkley (University College London) An assemblage without a context? Metal-detected finds and their potential

DISCUSSANTS

Dr Simon Dell, School of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia

Dr Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Fine Art, Norwich University of the Arts

Prof. John Mack, School of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia