Still Life - Lisa Milroy and Jayne Parker
- Submitting institution
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University College London
: B - UoA32B The Slade School of Fine Art
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : B - UoA32B The Slade School of Fine Art
- Output identifier
- 14971
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
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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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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The output consists of the film The Oblique (2018) and 10 artworks or series of works, presented in the exhibition Still Life (2018), a two person show with Lisa Milroy at APT Gallery London. Parker’s film and artworks investigate absence and presence, and materiality and embodiment in human experiences. A corollary of this is an investigation of how memory resides in all its oblique complexities within a human frame of reference that includes gesture and objects. In this, the output points to the importance of experiences manifested through encounters with objects, images and sound? The Oblique features Blues in B-flat by Volker Heyn, performed by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze. The title relates to an instruction for the celloist to use an oblique bow in the score – ‘oblique down stroke’. Though finished in 2018, the film includes footage shot between 1999 and 2008, of the artist facing the performing celloist and of magnolia branches extending into the cavity of the cello where sound once resonated. Importantly, a Cycladic figurine appears under the strings of the cello, its arms crossed, reminiscent of the artist’s pose, and resonating with the shape of the cello. The figurine points to how material objects can communicate gestures, sounds and meanings across time. How oblique experiences are conveyed by material and sonic encounters is further investigated in sculptural and photographic works presented alongside the film, and for the first time, in the exhibition Still Life. The artefacts were made over a ten-year period. Objects made from horsehair and instrument parts were shown alongside stone carvings and photograms of magnolia petals; all artworks were presented as material supplements to the 16mm film. A proposal is, thereby, offered: analogue and material practices can articulate absence and, through this, give access to oblique memories in ways that digital practices cannot.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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