Descriptions True & Perfect
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32799424
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Jilin University of Arts, Changchun, China
- Brief description of type
- A body of drawings, video projections and artist books investigating ephemeral museum objects
- Open access status
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- Month
- June
- Year
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- 'Descriptions True and Perfect' comprised a solo exhibition of twenty back-lit drawings, ten artist’s books and eight video projections.
The project was framed by Willem Barentsz’ 1596 expedition which left Amsterdam for China carrying Renaissance prints but only reached the Russian Arctic. The prints, now in the Rijksmuseum, remained frozen for three centuries. 'Descriptions True and Perfect' extends Bowen’s interest in devising new ways of creating and exhibiting drawings to interrogate the museological dimensions of flux and explore themes of ephemerality through different means. It connects with current debates on how the materiality of objects can communicate in various ways.
In 2015 Bowen had continued to the cartographers’ failed destination, the bamboo groves of East Asia. Filmed solely through a mirror, the resulting video works fragmented Bowen’s passage through sub-tropical landscapes and sought to challenge experiential understanding of time and space. Bowen’s drawings which had previously been frozen in the Arctic for three years, were reconfigured. Through multiple folds, the drawings explored ideas connected to the transportation and storage of ephemeral objects.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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