Matter: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

This workshop event gathers together five papers concerned with excessive, wasted, intransigent and sticky materialities in art and literature. Leading on from 'Forms of Excess' held at University of York in the Spring term, this event takes a closer look at how matter and materiality offer a different perspective on cultural production. Papers will consider new approaches to ecology and the ontology of materials, as well as relationships between different species. The workshop aims to test these ideas and to foster an environment for discussion and debate.

Speakers:

Rosemary Deller (University of Manchester) Vegetal Correspondences and Obscene Affinities in Heide Hatry’s Not a Rose

Helen Shaw (University of York) Thinking through matter: Asger Jorn’s ‘imaginist laboratories’ at the International Ceramics Congresses in Albisola and Alba, Italy, 1954 and 1955

Brendan Gillott (University of Cambridge) John Cage’s Verbal Materials

Amy Tobin (University of York) Lynda Benglis’ Weird Materiality

This event is open to all students and faculty members and we encourage attendance for either the whole or part of the workshop.

Please confirm a place and direct any questions to at548@york.ac.uk 

An interdisciplinary workshop at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York, with the support of the Department of History of Art.

Image: Pipilotti Rist, The Tender Room 2011