Being With

Being With, is a personalised guided tour of the Sculpture graduate exhibition by noted theorist Jonathan Miles who will be accompanied by some exhibiting students.

“The question of sculpture is always related to being with, looking over, residing within an object or an attention, but it is also what the subject does, its action on things. The grid of representation looms within this, so is this a process of drawing straight lines, taking a stance, enacting a logic, issuing the certainty of identity, a circulation or a deduction? A space is opened around this, but something slips through this grid, something that is closer to a vapour, dissolving distinctions as part of a series of presentations.

Something is taking place in this. We started by discussing the texture of the culture.

There is a common perception of the sense that if words could describe then there would be no point in making but if the point was erased in advance of such a formulation, what then? Surely all that is left over is a state of immeasurability. The curvature of becoming opens out into the continent of immeasurability beyond the grid of representation. It is of course possible to make such a formulation but what does it imply for practice? What it might do, is rather than opening out the valve of interpretation, it instead reorientates the maker into a way of being with both the textual import of both material and language within the frame of letting go. Thus gesture, form, process, space, matter accord beyond is then free to discover their own model set within the advance of. The curvature from either model or prescription of becoming is this release, but rather in the words of Deleuze is an orientation to: “Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”

Meet us at the entrance to the Sculpture exhibition on the 1st floor at 12pm.

Image Credit : Lester Korzilius