Assemblage in Practice, Graduate Symposium, UEA
22 March 2013 Assemblage in Practice, Graduate Symposium PDF (pdf; 345kb)
Assemblage in Practice, Graduate Symposium
Saturday 20th April 2013
School of Art History & World Art Studies, University of East Anglia
Free and open to all.
Assemblage as a model for re-imagining and fragmenting the interpretation of material culture has been recognised across the disciplines of artistic practice, art history, anthropology, archaeology, heritage studies and museology. This inherently unstable model has taken different forms, including the creative reconfiguration of found objects and materials, and alternative strategies for classification and display. It has also been used as a framework for articulating de-centred approaches to relationships between people and ‘things’. What these forms share is a recognition that the properties of assemblages emerge from interactions between parts, allowing for movement and change, and generating unpredictable ‘emergent wholes’.
In A New Philosophy for Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006), Manuel DeLanda points to the importance of his readers’ visceral experience of the movement between these shifting points of interaction, and of the specific historical conditions in which assemblages develop. With this in mind, this graduate symposium brings together recent scholarship engaged with assemblage in relation to the creation and interpretation of objects and images in art practice, art history, design history, archaeology and visual culture. Focusing on the social and material networks that inform these processes, the work presented explores the contexts in which assemblages are constructed, the properties that have emerged in practice, and the usefulness of assemblage as a model for engaging with material culture across disciplines.
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