Thursday 9 September 2010

Peter Muir: Research Profile


 




My academic interests concern the relationship between word and image, the mnemonic significance of materials as well as the implications of spatial theory in relation to contemporary art practice and cultural identity.

 

Wednesday 8 September 2010

‘Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect: Luxury will be King’

I’m very pleased to announce that an article ‘Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect: Luxury will be King’ will be published by The Journal For Cultural Research in 2011. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14797585.asp

The analysis considers Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (also known as Etant d’art pour locataire, 1975), as a physical expression of the psychological tensions between rational and irrational impulses active at the artwork’s moment and location (the Plateau Beaubourg during the Paris biennale of 1975), and seeks to demonstrate how such conflicting and contradictory forces manifest themselves within, and are refracted by, the iconographic language of the art object.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLg2ID2KCTI&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKo_g5EZonI
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=Conceptual%20art&page=1&f=Movement&cr=7