Post-arctic actions: Gabriel Orozco and the vaporous object
In Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making (1970) the American artist Robert Morris refers to the making process as “the submerged side of the art iceberg” (Morris, 1993). Viewed from the perspective of our Anthropocene, with its cleaving ice cliffs and polar melts, Morris’s arctic metaphor seems...
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ftqueensland:oai:eprints.qut.edu.au:227079 2023-07-30T03:59:58+02:00 Post-arctic actions: Gabriel Orozco and the vaporous object Robb, Charles 2019 application/pdf https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227079/ unknown https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227079/1/102690318.pdf Robb, Charles (2019) Post-arctic actions: Gabriel Orozco and the vaporous object. In Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, 2019-12-03 - 2019-12-06, Auckland,New Zealand. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227079/ Creative Industries Faculty; School of Creative Practice free_to_read http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Charles Robb This work is covered by copyright. Unless the document is being made available under a Creative Commons Licence, you must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owner must be obtained for all other uses. If the document is available under a Creative Commons License (or other specified license) then refer to the Licence for details of permitted re-use. It is a condition of access that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to qut.copyright@qut.edu.au Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference: Ngā Tūtaki – Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies: Orozco Gabriel Topology in art contemporary sculpture Post-humanist theory Contribution to conference 2019 ftqueensland 2023-07-10T22:25:21Z In Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making (1970) the American artist Robert Morris refers to the making process as “the submerged side of the art iceberg” (Morris, 1993). Viewed from the perspective of our Anthropocene, with its cleaving ice cliffs and polar melts, Morris’s arctic metaphor seems due for reconsideration: icebergs are no longer invisible entities but dynamic agentive objects that force themselves upon our consciousness with increased insistency. The motif of the iceberg is now redolent with notions of capricious threat and material dissipation. Drawing upon the work of Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, in this paper I will propose a revised account of Morris’ iceberg of practice in terms of the contemporary sculptural object as an agentive form, or what I will refer to as a “taw” – a playing piece in a game. As Orozco’s work reveals, the contemporary sculptural object can act as an intrinsically topological entity, capable of varied spatial and temporal movements. I contend that the motif of the cloud – another kind of aqueous form - acts as a useful contemporary rendering of the ‘iceberg of practice’ for the creative researcher, in ways that supplant fixity with fluidity, containment with leakage and past and present. Conference Object Arctic Arctic Iceberg* Queensland University of Technology: QUT ePrints Arctic |
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In Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making (1970) the American artist Robert Morris refers to the making process as “the submerged side of the art iceberg” (Morris, 1993). Viewed from the perspective of our Anthropocene, with its cleaving ice cliffs and polar melts, Morris’s arctic metaphor seems due for reconsideration: icebergs are no longer invisible entities but dynamic agentive objects that force themselves upon our consciousness with increased insistency. The motif of the iceberg is now redolent with notions of capricious threat and material dissipation. Drawing upon the work of Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, in this paper I will propose a revised account of Morris’ iceberg of practice in terms of the contemporary sculptural object as an agentive form, or what I will refer to as a “taw” – a playing piece in a game. As Orozco’s work reveals, the contemporary sculptural object can act as an intrinsically topological entity, capable of varied spatial and temporal movements. I contend that the motif of the cloud – another kind of aqueous form - acts as a useful contemporary rendering of the ‘iceberg of practice’ for the creative researcher, in ways that supplant fixity with fluidity, containment with leakage and past and present. |
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free_to_read http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Charles Robb This work is covered by copyright. Unless the document is being made available under a Creative Commons Licence, you must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owner must be obtained for all other uses. If the document is available under a Creative Commons License (or other specified license) then refer to the Licence for details of permitted re-use. It is a condition of access that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to qut.copyright@qut.edu.au |
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