A–Z DISPLAY UNITS (AFTER KIESLER & KRISCHANITZ) 2015–2020
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32Z_OP_M0083
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; etc.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2015
- URL
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https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1100979/1100980
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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
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The researcher’s practise and work challenge the nature and understanding of art’s primary function as an exhibition. It expands the artist-curator role through the development of new systems of display. These draw on historical precedents creating sculptural mediations between artists, curators, and publics. The researcher proposes transformative artworks as social systems and temporal experiences, always requiring collaboration with others. Drawing from studies of ‘useful art’, ‘artist and engineering’, ‘support structures’ (Condorelli and Wade, 2009) and referencing Artist Placement Group’s concept ‘context is half the work’, this output informs understandings of ‘when artists curate’ (Green, 2018) and the ‘transhistorical museum’ (Demeester, 2018). The researcher’s remodelling and extending of a series of ‘Display Units’ use a process of ‘upcycling’—a term used to describe the methodology in this work. In 2015 the researcher started developing artworks upcycled from the ‘L and T–Type Display Units’ (Frederick Kiesler, 1924) and referencing the ‘Vienna Secession Mobile Wall System’ (Adolf Krischanitz,1986). This synthesizing method is generating a new A–Z alphabet Display Unit system as part of the process of re-imagining curatorial activities as a form of art practice. ‘Upcycle This Book’ (2017), nominated for the European Prix Bob Calle du livre d’artiste, presents twenty-six texts on this work and twelve Display Unit drawings. The researcher created Display Units for ‘Display Show’(2015), exhibited in Dublin, Birmingham and Netherlands and funded by ACE/British Council International Artists Development Award. Christopher Williams (USA), Eilis McDonald (IRE) and Leeds Weirdo Club (UK) were collaborating artists. The researcher worked with Frans Hals Museum collection to create ‘Z is for ZOO’ (2017) exploring the transhistorical potential of the ‘Z-Type’ and ‘T-Type’ Display Units, purchased by the museum. His writing for ‘Display Show’ provided the provocation for ‘That Art Exhibits’: EARN Conference, Brussels (2016) at which he was the invited keynote speaker.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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