INTRODUCTION
Thanks all for coming. So, in the previous event in this series I talked briefly on how this journal and exhibition and the events accompanying this were a an attempt to make something about making - or the relation between an object of thought and a material presence. More to the point then, this object of thought is not some segregated, original form gestating in the mind, but something that is in fact invisible or incommensurable to us at the time of making. It is something we cannot grasp but that we are trying to find. So we see it in other things or parts of it in other things - in a position, in a moment, in a time, in a thing. We see a thing an maybe we get a little closer to what it is we are trying to say.
In this sense, making things is not about our ideas as much as the abandonment of our formal preconceptions and an infatuation with these objects that seem to speak to us. Now, this obviously sounds like fetishism and no doubt it is because this is how we operate in the world of things. Perhaps we could regress this to a question of commodification and it is also that but perhaps, beyond and within that, what interests me here is that there could be an object that appears to have something in-itself, have an autonomy; for something to matter other than ourselves. I suppose when I was thinking about this project of 'making something because you love something else' it was this 'something else' that I found important to practice.
Perhaps if we want to make something about making it is important that we make something else, something that exterior to ourselves. Something not known, not verified. Perhaps this is how we can make something new. Now we could say this was about appearance or transformation, incomprehensibility, transcendence or radical materiality, but I think what really matters most, what matters to why we make things, is that there is some space or stillness or surplus that seems to speak to us. So, the two talks we are about to see are both in some way about such objects or rather, about objects of desire and so back to loving something, which is maybe about letting go.
EVENT:
Pedraglio, Francesco. Yet another Tiger in the Room... , London, Hollybush Gardens, 2011.
Phillipson, Heather. Well, this is embarrassing. Half an hour in 12 episodes, London, Hollybush Gardens, 2011.
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