Mapping Materiality
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When
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Address
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd Paddington NSW 2021
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Hours
1–2PM
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Phone
+61 2 8936 0888
How do materials translate experiences into tangible expressions? ‘Mapping Materiality’ brings together artists and designers working with a diverse range of materials that speak to location, identity, and lived experience. This conversation aims to unravel how practitioners identify and embrace materials, and the ways that materiality can inform and guide creative practice.
Curated by Abeerah Saad and Nadine Johnston
Participants:
Vedika Rampal's interdisciplinary practice is interested in excavating pre-colonial histories and knowledges within the post-colonial present. Their work interrogates Western museological modalities that perceive art/efacts as distinct from cultures to uncover how these materials and objects containing potential histories resist inscription, plunder and reproduction through fragmentation.
Nic Narapiromkwan Foo is a Thai-Chinese-Australian artist conversing, collaborating, making, and learning on stolen Gadigal land. Through the oral, gestural, and embodied forms of communication within her familial relationships, Nic explores knowledge and meaning-making within the post-diasporic archive.
Jessica Kim explores ethnological Korean traditions through objects, jewellery and graphic design. Her practice engages with tactile forms of making in metal work and textiles as well as digital applications. Jessica considers her work as a form of storytelling that can translate cultural significance into a contemporary context, exploring themes of community environment language, and connection.
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Presented in conjunction with the A&D Annual, Australia’s largest national showcase of graduate art and design. Hear from the next generation of creative practitioners in this dynamic program of curated tours, sound walks, panel discussions, and talks curated by the Masters of Curating & Cultural Leadership cohort.
Event Images: Mapping Materiality for AD Annual 23 at UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 2023.