DM: Une Taxonomie des Fantomes dans le Formes Populaires (2016) in the exhibition ExtraNaturel: A voyage of initiation through the collection of the Beaux-arts de Paris
- Submitting institution
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The University of Cumbria
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Williams3
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- École des Beaux-arts, Paris, France
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of first exhibition
- July
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
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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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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- DM: Une Taxonomie des Fantomes dans le Formes Populaires, is a site-specific artwork – a huge mural in gold, silver and copperleaf, re-presenting and re-imagining classification tropes of the ghostly drawn from cultural sources. This work, in format and scale, becomes immersive and overpowering as it references art and objects within the ExtraNaturel exhibition, mapping the context, behaviour and disposition of ghosts and ghost-seeing in Western traditions. Context-specifically it mediates ideas of the supernatural revealed in the École collections spanning 500 years, by artists such as Goya, Dürer, Baldini, Piranesi, and Fragonard. The work functions, not to represent or to be reductive, but rather like the Grimoires and images with which it shares space, to visualize and invoke the ExtraNaturel, the Otherworld. In recalling other projects with Prof. Hilmar Schäfer, this specially commissioned ephemeral re-working is made specifically for the context of the École. The elements making up the work become gold, silver and copper leaf. Here the organigram achieves actual electrical connection via the materials, with the potential to become activated, enabling it to function imaginatively as a mediumistic device invoking the unseen, simultaneously revealing the behavior of cultural ghosts.
Extranatural, was a group exhibition curated by artist, Mark Dion and Gulbenkian curator Sarina Basta. The conceit was to explore representations of the supernatural present in the collections of historical material held by the École, and to re-present these in relation to work dealing with shared themes from the contemporary artists participating in the event. As well as Williams, these include James Lee Byers, Dana Sherwood, Matt Mullican, Wallace Berman, Art Orienté Objet, Rafael Zarka, Morgane Tschiember, Extra Lucida, and others. This work was the subject of a conference paper, Mundus Imaginalis & Intellectus Agens: Imagination et agence dans la creation d’organigrammes relationels, at the Sorbonne, Paris. November 2019.
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- Non-English
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