Triumph of the Immaterial: Ephemeral and Performative Clay Practice.
Triumph of the Immaterial is a delicate floral fountain hand-crafted from raw clay. Cummings’s work won the inaugural Woman’s Hour Craft Prize, in 2017, and was presented as part of a six-month exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where it was gradually eroded by the water flowing through and over it. See Portfolio Booklet for documentation of research dimensions.
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- qqv7x
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Triumph of the Immaterial, artefact made for Woman’s Hour Craft Prize exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7, September 7, 2017–February 5, 2018. Venues of Woman’s Hour Craft Prize touring exhibition are listed in the portfolio.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of production
- September
- Year of production
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Cummings’s research explores how: ceramic objects can be understood as an ephemeral or time-based medium; objects and materials can enact their own performance in the context of the museum; live ceramic creation can shed light on craft history while intervening in the field of contemporary art. Working through the framework of ephemeral and performative clay practices, Triumph of the Immaterial suggests that an experimental approach to ceramic expression can widen the scope of contemporary ceramics while breaking down distinctions between craft and contemporary art. Cummings further disseminated her research insights via conference papers and presentations, a book chapter and journal article.
Triumph of the Immaterial is funded by BBC Woman’s Hour Craft Prize (award), Compton Verney, and Vehbi Koc Foundation. The project draws on Cummings' object-based research during residencies and commissions from museums and builds on the critical work of the University of Westminster’s Ceramics Research Centre (CRC) in the AHRC-funded project Ceramics in the Expanded Field.
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