Around Photography: An Artists' Forum
Christo Crocker, Danica Chapell, Geoff Robinson, Kiron Robinson and Jo Scicluna
CCP : Wednesday 8 May 2013 6-8pm
In the realm of the 'post medium condition',
how does a distinctly photographic sensibility transcend the
photographic image and inform other material, sculptural and spatial
outcomes?
As the ultimate social medium
photography has acquired an immediate and accessible omnipresence and
has become embedded in our collective consciousness as a 'filter' for
seeing and thinking. How, then, do photographic artists take this
contemporary reality into their individual practice? When put into
practice, is it possible for photographic ways of seeing and thinking to
transcend the medium altogether? ...
In the realm of the 'post medium condition', for instance.
And, the ultimate social medium photography... That's quite a ] limited ( claim.
Consider, "It is the mind that moves."
- from The Gateless Gate
Since the 1980s, the artist Peter Tyndall has refused the conventional observer-denying mode of Medium descriptions such as OIL ON LINEN.
Given that it is not The Thing that we see but our differing perception-conceptions of The Thing, what then is the medium description of this, our regard?
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
CULTURAL CONSUMPTION PRODUCTION
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA