The Thing -first post

15/02 1pm-3pm The Thing.
+ Essay Briefing
LEVEL2

Hi, just a preliminary note to say, next Monday PM we will be discussing the issue of 'The Thing' in Sculpture. Please feel free to bring your own images, interpretations of what this might mean and we can make the session more of a Workshop.

(Apparently I am not, after all, expected to give Level Two tutorials in the morning, but I am waiting for clarification on this)

Meanwhile, stay tuned to this Blog and I will upload a text or some Thing-y quotes in good time before the session.

For me 'The Thing' is always a peculiar concern of Sculpture. In painting or Photography or film it can taken or left but in sculpture it seems we have some omnipresent responsibility to Things and thing-hood.

We can look at taxonomy, mass, virtuality and Objecthood, and, as ever, consider how The Thing in sculpture reveals itself in contemporary practices by comparing them with ideas from a History of art and thought