Telemetries
Telemetry is the science of data transmission, from a remote source to a receiving station, for analysis. The word is derived from Greek roots tele, meaning ‘far off’, and metron, meaning ‘measure’.
The National Sculpture Factory has always been aware of its own peculiar locatedness: the second city of a small English-speaking island-nation on the margins of Europe adrift in the Atlantic banked on either side by two significant international cultural centres.
In this series we wish to establish communication with points of transmission from across the globe, in order to monitor, measure and record the current state of international discourse; and to gain a better sense of our own positioning within these centres of discursive activity.
We are happy to announce registration for our evening lecture by Lucy Cotter at 6pm on Thursday 10 September is now open.
Lucy Cotter – Reclaiming Artistic Research
In her recently published volume Reclaiming Artistic Research (Hatje Cantz, 2019) Lucy Cotter argues that artistic research needs to be salvaged from the shadows of academic definitions and institutional debates.
In this lecture she will foreground how art’s ways of knowing and unknowing open up through attention to form, through play, and through the ability and desire to question the terms of the many discourses it engages with, rather than providing supplementary knowledge. Challenging the bias towards linguistic articulation, she will highlight how ideas emerge through material, conceptual and embodied ways of working and celebrate the stubborn singularity of artistic thinking.
Lucy Cotter’s multidisciplinary practice explores aesthetics, politics, and the unknown through art critical writings, curating, ficto-theory and lecture performances. A regular contributor to journals such as Flash Art, Frieze, Mousse and Third Text, she is currently working on a new book, Art Knowledge: Between the Known and the Unknown, and an experimental play The Entangled Museum, which circles around issues of restitution, cultural beliefs and the limits of acceptable knowledge. She was curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), and, most recently, The Unknown Artist at the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, OR, USA (2020).
Register for Reclaiming Artistic Research
This series is free for all. These talks will take place on Zoom, so we recommend downloading / updating your app ahead of time to prevent delays in joining the webinar. There with be time allocated at the end of each presentation for Q+A with our online audience.