Can objects perform? - Reading group

This is a project by MLitt Curatorial Practice student Joshua Speer, as part of degree show work for The Glasgow School of Art.josh_speer@icloud.comLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-speerTwitter: @joshua_speerInstagram: @speer.joshua

Joshua Speer

Objects surround us; their very existence is something usually associated with an mundane and everyday attitude. Very little regard is given to objects, especially in relation to our own human existence. Why? An objects placement within contemporary art is equally ambiguous with - often - little acknowledgment of the thingliness within. 
Can objects communicate? In the context of exhibition making, we can see how in fact a very social space is created for objects and their beings. Close proximity becomes a metaphor for, and methodology towards, understanding the communicable power of objects. What does this mean for the art world as a whole?
You are invited to take part in a reading group looking at the flattening of hierarchy between human and object existence(s). Through the reading of a text by writers and curators Pil and Galia Kollectiv, we will explore an object-oriented world of the inanimate and everyday; from traditional philosophy, to contemporary artistic practice(s) and even the financial crash of the mid 2000s. 
Please attend this event having read the text and with some notes ready for discussion, however, this text is to act as both an instigator and departure point so feel free to bring any ideas or questions unrelated. 
Please refer to the link in this description to access the text, alternatively you can contact me if you would like a hard copy posted
The event will take place in The Snug at Kelvin Hall cafe. As you enter Kelvin Hall, head towards the cafe desk, take a left, and head down towards the front of the cafe. If you have any issues please ask any of the Kelvin Hall staff about finding The Snug. Refreshments will be provided. Please get in touch with any dietary requirements/ allergies.
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Link for text: www.kollectiv.co.uk/Object%20Orientations.html
 
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Pil and Galia Kollectiv are London-based artists, writers and curators working in collaboration. Their work together addresses the legacy of modernism and the relationship between art and politics. It explores avant-garde discourses of the twentieth century in the context of a changing landscape of creative work and instrumentalised leisure. They often use music and choregraphed movement to investigate the beliefs and rituals of a supposedly post-ideoligical society. 
They have had solo shows at Centre Clark, Montreal, Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Pump House Gallery, London, Te Tuhi Center for the Arts, New Zealand and The Showroom Gallery, London. They have also presented live work at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the 5th Montreal Biennial and Kunsthall Oslo. Their band WE extends their interrogation of the construction of individuality and collectivity. They are the directors of artist run project space xero, kline & coma and work as lecturers in Fine Art at the University of Reading, the Royal College of Art and the CASS School of Art. 
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Louisa Love, some stretchy ecology of concentrics (Installation View), 2018. Talbot Rice Gallery. Image courtesy the artist.

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