Quarries of Wandering Form
Solo exhibition employing various media to investigate the geopolitical, cultural and ecological role of stone quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank.
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-91-0000
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway and Mosaic Rooms, London
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- March
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Quarries of Wandering Form is the product of Judith Price’s long-term research at the Palestinian Occupied Territories and includes extensive research undertaken between January 2014 and the first presentation of the research, through an exhibition in March 2017. The creation of the exhibition necessitated multiple visits by Price to Palestine (urban areas and quarries), and to archives related to the exhibition’s themes. In addition, Price engaged extensively with Palestinian communities, social groups and organisations, in order to overcome the practical challenges of working in a politically turbulent region, and to solidify the work’s ethical position through a dialogical approach.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Quarries of Wandering Form(2017) is a solo exhibition by Judy Price, investigating the geopolitical, cultural and ecological role of stone quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank. The exhibition was first presented at Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen, Norway, 25 March–2 June 2017, bringing together a body of research composed of a three-screen film installation, a diptych of photographs, a vinyl-text installation and a book installation. Building on Price’s long-term relationship with Occupied Palestinian Territories, for over a decade, this has been the first artistic research project to investigate the extraction, exploitation and circulation of stone in the West Bank, and function of quarries not only as industrial spaces, but also as spaces where colonialism and globalisation are enacted. Price developed her practice-based research through multiple visits to quarries; interviews with workers, local residents, workers’ unions and ecological groups; visits to museums and archives; study of documentary films relating to the thematic of Quarries of Wandering Form (2017) and the aesthetic approaches of its filmic components; the study of film theory and philosophical texts relating to participatory documentary practices and the notion of representation; work-in-progress screenings; presentations at conferences; and workshops. Through the exhibition, Price has been able to highlight how geopolitical tensions in the West Bank often remain hidden through the popularisation of narratives that ‘naturalise’ the character of construction projects in the region. At the same time, Price’s methodology has revealed the importance of questioning dominant notions of authorship in order to produce agency in socially and politically engaged art. The works comprising Quarries of Wandering Form (2017) have been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, with White Oil I (2017) also edited as a single-screen piece for cinema screenings and festival distribution. In addition, research has been presented in conferences, cited in articles and journals.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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