DESERT APPS // 'Last words, so it goes' Curators' Tour + Workshop

Culture

DESERT APPS //
20-Jun-2017 14:26
Sat 15 July 1:30 - 3:30pm // At Turf, CR0 1TF // Free + open to all

Free workshop for all ages.

Explore Turf's current art exhibition ‘Last words, so it goes’ with curator Jack Friswell and exhibiting artist Linda Persson.

Throughout the afternoon, take part in making a collective expanded projection. Materials will be provided, but you can bring along any other materials you wish such as phones, glasses, stories, stones, or other small and objects.

Watch and discuss a selection of material from remote cultures to our own homes and explore how the re-appropriation of new and old technology is informed by their own history and beliefs, looking closely at the way we gesticulate and make sense of new and found objects through ritual and in relation to other objects.

The workshop is presented in relation to ‘OPALSTONE’, a recent project by the artist Linda Persson currently part of Momentum 9, The Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, 17/6-10/17. The installation is shaped by three years of research in outback desert Australia. It draws on the historical, cultural and mythological contexts around indigenous land and the mining industry, which is heavily linked to the development of digital technology and its ‘immaterial affect’.

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