Safe houses on enchanted ground
This essay was written for the substantial publication that accompanied the exhibition 'Sian Bowen and Nova Zembla: Suspending the Ephemeral', held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (22nd November 2011 - 6th March 2012). Dorsett discusses the artist Sian Bowen's creative engagement with...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Other Authors: | , , |
Format: | Book Part |
Language: | unknown |
Published: |
RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications)
2012
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6615/ |
id |
ftunivnorthumb:oai:nrl.northumbria.ac.uk:6615 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftunivnorthumb:oai:nrl.northumbria.ac.uk:6615 2023-05-15T14:57:07+02:00 Safe houses on enchanted ground Dorsett, Chris Bowen, Siân De Hond, Jan Fruehsorge, Jan-Philipp 2012-01 https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6615/ unknown RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications) Dorsett, Chris (2012) Safe houses on enchanted ground. In: Sian Bowen and Nova Zembla: Suspending the Ephemeral. RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications), Derby, pp. 107-113. ISBN 978-0956902405 W100 Fine Art Book Section NonPeerReviewed 2012 ftunivnorthumb 2022-09-25T05:53:31Z This essay was written for the substantial publication that accompanied the exhibition 'Sian Bowen and Nova Zembla: Suspending the Ephemeral', held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (22nd November 2011 - 6th March 2012). Dorsett discusses the artist Sian Bowen's creative engagement with a collection of 16th century artefacts found on the inhospitable Arctic island of Nova Zembla. The objects, now housed in the Rijksmuseum, were discovered in the remains of a cabin built by the Dutch explorer Willem Barents when he and his crew were stranded on the ice-locked island during the winter of 1596. Whilst the essay explores Bowen's intention to work in the gap between creativity and damage (a contradiction suggested in part by the process of recovering and conserving historical objects), Dorsett also examines his own encounters with the long history of writing fables about icy and mysterious places such as Nova Zembla. 'Safe Houses on Enchanted Ground' returns to one of Dorsett's key metaphors for the museum environment, Joseph Addison's unlikely notion of voices freezing in Arctic air. The result is an evocative and affirmative celebration of the poor prospects of recovering the past, one of the best reasons for inviting artists to work with museum collections. Book Part Arctic Northumbria University, Newcastle: Northumbria Research Link (NRL) Arctic Arctic Island ENVELOPE(-74.766,-74.766,62.234,62.234) |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Northumbria University, Newcastle: Northumbria Research Link (NRL) |
op_collection_id |
ftunivnorthumb |
language |
unknown |
topic |
W100 Fine Art |
spellingShingle |
W100 Fine Art Dorsett, Chris Safe houses on enchanted ground |
topic_facet |
W100 Fine Art |
description |
This essay was written for the substantial publication that accompanied the exhibition 'Sian Bowen and Nova Zembla: Suspending the Ephemeral', held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (22nd November 2011 - 6th March 2012). Dorsett discusses the artist Sian Bowen's creative engagement with a collection of 16th century artefacts found on the inhospitable Arctic island of Nova Zembla. The objects, now housed in the Rijksmuseum, were discovered in the remains of a cabin built by the Dutch explorer Willem Barents when he and his crew were stranded on the ice-locked island during the winter of 1596. Whilst the essay explores Bowen's intention to work in the gap between creativity and damage (a contradiction suggested in part by the process of recovering and conserving historical objects), Dorsett also examines his own encounters with the long history of writing fables about icy and mysterious places such as Nova Zembla. 'Safe Houses on Enchanted Ground' returns to one of Dorsett's key metaphors for the museum environment, Joseph Addison's unlikely notion of voices freezing in Arctic air. The result is an evocative and affirmative celebration of the poor prospects of recovering the past, one of the best reasons for inviting artists to work with museum collections. |
author2 |
Bowen, Siân De Hond, Jan Fruehsorge, Jan-Philipp |
format |
Book Part |
author |
Dorsett, Chris |
author_facet |
Dorsett, Chris |
author_sort |
Dorsett, Chris |
title |
Safe houses on enchanted ground |
title_short |
Safe houses on enchanted ground |
title_full |
Safe houses on enchanted ground |
title_fullStr |
Safe houses on enchanted ground |
title_full_unstemmed |
Safe houses on enchanted ground |
title_sort |
safe houses on enchanted ground |
publisher |
RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications) |
publishDate |
2012 |
url |
https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6615/ |
long_lat |
ENVELOPE(-74.766,-74.766,62.234,62.234) |
geographic |
Arctic Arctic Island |
geographic_facet |
Arctic Arctic Island |
genre |
Arctic |
genre_facet |
Arctic |
op_relation |
Dorsett, Chris (2012) Safe houses on enchanted ground. In: Sian Bowen and Nova Zembla: Suspending the Ephemeral. RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications), Derby, pp. 107-113. ISBN 978-0956902405 |
_version_ |
1766329211490926592 |