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Material Messengers UNBUILD panel talk

Material Messengers UNBUILD panel talk

30 Oct 2023

UNBUILD: a site of possibility artists Jessie Brennan, Ian Kiaer and Tanoa Sasraku are joined by artist and researcher Susan Schuppli to explore ways in which the materials and methodology of a widened field of drawing can evidence rather than represent reality.  The panel considers the impermanent, fragile, automatic and auto-destructive capacity of drawing to speak to our contemporary condition. Of what collapse/destruction are we speaking, what might we learn from it, what possibilities can it offer? The agency of materials will be explored – what can we learn from materials and how can we let materials speak for themselves?

Tanoa SasrakuDrawingRoom_Unbuild@BJDeakinPhotography-5289-6227-1-1024x724A Tower to Say Goodbye (detail), 2021, newsprint, soft pastel, fixative, polyester thread, linen thread, and PVA glue, 401 × 260cm. Collection of Lorenzo Legarda Leviste and Fahad Mayet. Photo: Ben Deakin