#airedeturner
- waughofficeatelier
- May 26
- 1 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Terry Smith
Our moment frozen and yet still vaporous is 2015. The catalogue of the interventions curated by Waugh Office in collaboration with Venice Agendas andTurner Contemporary in Margate began with these words: "See and hear contemporary artists from around the world at Turner Contemporary, during a day of discussion and performance." - Turner Contemporary Press Release.
"As part of the Venice Agendas event series in collaboration with Waugh Office, this event responds to themes of risk and boundaries, as well as cultural and personal borders, Experience live art, and watch artist interviews and performances from Mexico City, London, Manchester, Cape Town, Budapest, Dubai, North Carolina, Chicago and New York, onsite and live streamed through Periscope, screened in the Foyle Rooms and available via Twitter @TCMargate #airedeturner."
Observations and misperceptions.
The naming of things foreground the perambulations of words that mediate and carry the autonomic structures of the material world in their ephemeral equations.
The title #airedeturner navigates the mind into the tumbling meteorology and pigments orchestrated by J.M.W. Turner whilst connecting surreptitiously the borders of two parts of a continent split by geological tension. These fissures of communication as the title Crossing Borders suggests, draws us the dominance of technologies, inviting travelers into virtual spaces of domestic and public enclosure.
Like the great Air Loom imagined by J.M.W. Turner's contemporary James Tilly Mathews, a London tea broker who was committed to Bethlem psychiatric hospital in 1797, or nets haul nothing free from the madness of the moment.
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