This one-day conference coincides with the Henry Moore Institute exhibitions Dennis Oppenheim: Thought Collision Factories, Jean Tinguely: Spiral and Stephen Cripps: Pyrotechnic Sculptor. All three sculptors extended the boundaries of sculpture not only by employing purpose-built mechanised objects and kinetic contraptions, but also through pyrotechnics. Each turned to fireworks, explosives, flares, fires and other kinds of combustibles and detonations to make temporary sculptural works, the sparks of which shone brightly across the landscape of contemporary sculpture in Europe and North America during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Fire, flare and smoke were all harnessed for visual, sonic, material and spatial effects, in fascinating, ambitious and imaginative ways, with associations and meanings that extend well beyond their more literal ‘dematerialising’ qualities. This conference will consider examples of pyrotechnic sculpture found across the modern and contemporary period, through original research on the deployment of kinetic sculptural form and use of activated assemblage, accounts of temporality and ephemerality, the conjunction of object and event, modes of staging, display and re-display, and the on going life of this work today.
10.30am
Reception – Registration
10.45am-1pm
Seminar Room
Welcome
Katinka Seeger (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel)
‘Explosion as an Artistic Tool’
Marin Sullivan (University of Leeds)
‘Purging by Fire: Alberto Burri, Arte Povera, and Postwar Italian Art’
Claire Louise Staunton (Flat Time House)
‘The Act of Burning, Exploding and Destruction in John Latham’s Sculptural Work’
1pm-2pm
Boardroom – Lunch
2pm-4.15pm
Seminar Room
Mari Dumett (The Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC)
‘The Volatile Matter of Jean Tinguley’s ‘Homage to New York”
Rozemin Keshvani (Independent Writer/Curator)
‘Five Artists – The use of Explosives and Gun Powder to produce Transient Installation and Sculptural Works’
Ursula Ströbele (College of Fine Arts, Berlin)
‘Sculpture as Performance? Pyrotechnics in the work of Anish Kapoor, Roman Signer, Cyprien Gaillard, Andreas Greiner and Armin Keplinger’
4.15pm-5pm
Boardroom – Tea/coffee
5pm-6pm
Seminar Room
Artist Michael Landy in conversation with Richard Calvocoressi
Tickets £10/£5 concessions.
Bookings can also be made via our website: http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/events/pyrotechnic-sculpture/book-a-place-at-this-conference
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