13 and 14 February: 'the diagram' discussion and screening

Friday 12 February 2010

the diagram

Ami Clarke and antepress

Discussions and short presentations related to the idea of the diagram will take place at FormContent on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th amongst an installation by Ami Clarke. Her screens, reminiscent of office cubicles and temporary exhibition stands, provide a spacial grid within the gallery space to discuss and display the gathered materials.

Program of the day

Saturday 13th - from 2 to 6 pm

Screening:

- Dr John Mullarkey’s lecture Diagrammatic Actualism, ACTUAL VIRTUAL (30’ ca)

“My argument is basically that, whereas Deleuze tends to think of his diagrams as virtual processes – as only a potentially concrete (or actual) thing – I believe that it is better to think of them as already actual processes.”

Touching on ideas relating to the working drawing and the performative object.

Presentations:

- David Berridge:

Presentation of An Improvised Diagram Syllabus - an overview of the diagram ranging from Rodchenko to Gabriel Orozco - and photographic and video work by Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg.

- Josh Baum:

Presentation of 3 balloons carefully balanced to transcribe in mercurial lines a diagram of almost anything.

- Tamarin Norwood:
Presentation of artist book DO SOMETHING and radio/text work Musica Practica, considering instructional language as diagram.
 
- Julia Calver:
Reading of two recent texts.

- Patrick Coyle:
Presentation and discussion around his work Holding this objecty/making this objecty.

- Cressida Kocienski:

Presentation of three short films alongside a brief consideration of modelling the formless.

- Claire Nichols:
Presentation of a series of drawings around the premise and the process of The Empty Gallery Interviews http://theemptygalleryinterviews.com, a series of live conversations held with exhibitors prior to the installation process

- Gemma and Hannah Sharpe:
Works by Hannah Sharpe associated with text by Gemma Sharpe will be on display

On Sunday 14th, from 2 to 6pm, the space will be open and selected works from the previous day will be displayed