“Sometimes I’m Afraid of Ruining What I Have” lecture by Helena Sanders
Lecture by Helena Sanders
23 mrt. 2023 AKI Auditorium Enschede
(archive)
Host: Rana Ghavami
taal: Engels
Please join us for a captivating lecture on color and natural dyes in artistic research by multidisciplinary artist Helena Sanders. Sanders, across all elements of her work, explores the potential of pigment usage to communicate complex histories of human relations with land.
Date & Time:
Thursday 23 March
10:00 - 11:30 hours
Location:
AKI Auditorium, Enschede
Thursday 23 March
10:00 - 11:30 hours
Location:
AKI Auditorium, Enschede
Preparing for the Lecture: Essay on Color by Helena Sanders
In order to get a gist of how she researches, sings and writes along with color, we urge you to read her recently published text Somewhere a bit further away foothills of the Appalachia North Carolina, Southeast United States.
Color is not merely a pigment or a material property, she uncovers in this essay. And the apparently simple question: "What is color?", turns out not to be a sensible question at all. Starting with her own body floating down the river, the question of 'what' is put aside, and color itself is encountered.
Color is not merely a pigment or a material property, she uncovers in this essay. And the apparently simple question: "What is color?", turns out not to be a sensible question at all. Starting with her own body floating down the river, the question of 'what' is put aside, and color itself is encountered.
“Where does colour go? If we trace the use of colour ‘in-hand’, as pigment, mineral, as a liquid medium, as a subject rather than referent, and follow its introduction into global economies, into our homes, into aesthetic hierarchies, feel with our senses where colour as light waves hold heat, we might begin to map a vast territory of relationships between the world and our selves, with the hope of extending the possibilities for communication beyond symbolic language, to attune to what might lie at the peripheries of our understanding.”
The essay is part of the subdossier Bodies and Breath: Embodied Research & Writing
Caption Image Above:
Ol’ Yellow Eyes / 2019 / variable / ochre paint, wood chips, UV heaters, silk cotton, acid dye, pigment-pressed unfired clay vessels.
performance / performance video still.
Courtesy of the artist Helena Sanders.
Ol’ Yellow Eyes / 2019 / variable / ochre paint, wood chips, UV heaters, silk cotton, acid dye, pigment-pressed unfired clay vessels.
performance / performance video still.
Courtesy of the artist Helena Sanders.
Date & Time:
Thursday 23 March
10:00 - 11:30 hours
Location:
AKI Auditorium, Enschede
Thursday 23 March
10:00 - 11:30 hours
Location:
AKI Auditorium, Enschede
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