Dutton, Steve and Swindells, Steve (2011) The stag and hound. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

The output consisted of a large scale ( 7 adjoining gallery spaces ) installation/exhibition at Project Space Leeds ( PSL ) in 2011. The exhibition was open to the public for 12 weeks, including a six week open residency period during which time one or both artists, Dutton and Swindells, were present. During the exhibition the artists launched their book ‘The Institute of Beasts’, published by Site Gallery and distributed by Cornerhouse books ISBN 978 1 899926 13 5. The exhibition continued to explore themes of ‘animality’ which had been developed at a previous exhibition ‘The institute of Beasts’. Entitled, "The Stag and Hound" the exhibition provided an elaborate ‘forest’ of signs, approaches, methods and materials, deliberately tripping up linear narratives and lines of thought. The artefacts themselves which consisted of animations, neon texts, photographs, sound works, broken glass, wall texts, were juxtaposed so as create potentially endless readings, summoning the spirit of the 'anima'l as something which could not ever fully be known. Once again the research concerned the nature of both an art practice and epistemological concerns. Both the exhibition and the publication served as a jount enquiry into the possibility of perpetual adjustments in seeing and knowing in order to fully be in the world. In this sense, the research tacitly suggests the invocation of an epistemological realm within which doubt, reticence and inconclusiveness may be privileged over certainty. Following the exhibition the artists were nominated for the prestigious Northern Art Prize 2011 and their work was the subject of an extensive analysis and exploration by Emma Cocker in Art+Research Journal, Vol 4, No 1. (‘ Moves towards the incomprehensible wild” ) The exhibition was also highlighted by Robert Clarke for the Guardian Newspaper 26th February 2011.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Additional Information:	The output consisted of a large scale ( 7 adjoining gallery spaces ) installation/exhibition at Project Space Leeds ( PSL ) in 2011. The exhibition was open to the public for 12 weeks, including a six week open residency period during which time one or both artists, Dutton and Swindells, were present. During the exhibition the artists launched their book ‘The Institute of Beasts’, published by Site Gallery and distributed by Cornerhouse books ISBN 978 1 899926 13 5. The exhibition continued to explore themes of ‘animality’ which had been developed at a previous exhibition ‘The institute of Beasts’. Entitled, "The Stag and Hound" the exhibition provided an elaborate ‘forest’ of signs, approaches, methods and materials, deliberately tripping up linear narratives and lines of thought. The artefacts themselves which consisted of animations, neon texts, photographs, sound works, broken glass, wall texts, were juxtaposed so as create potentially endless readings, summoning the spirit of the 'anima'l as something which could not ever fully be known. Once again the research concerned the nature of both an art practice and epistemological concerns. Both the exhibition and the publication served as a jount enquiry into the possibility of perpetual adjustments in seeing and knowing in order to fully be in the world. In this sense, the research tacitly suggests the invocation of an epistemological realm within which doubt, reticence and inconclusiveness may be privileged over certainty. Following the exhibition the artists were nominated for the prestigious Northern Art Prize 2011 and their work was the subject of an extensive analysis and exploration by Emma Cocker in Art+Research Journal, Vol 4, No 1. (‘ Moves towards the incomprehensible wild” ) The exhibition was also highlighted by Robert Clarke for the Guardian Newspaper 26th February 2011.
Keywords:	installation, art, collaboration, animals
Subjects:	W Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art W Creative Arts and Design > W890 Imaginative Writing not elsewhere classified W Creative Arts and Design > W640 Photography W Creative Arts and Design > W120 Painting W Creative Arts and Design > W110 Drawing W Creative Arts and Design > W130 Sculpture
Divisions:	College of Arts > Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design > Lincoln School of Art & Design
Depositing User:	Steve Dutton
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2012 19:06
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2013 09:10
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/5735

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