397 research outputs found
Vindications and reflections : the lady's magazine during the revolution controversy (1789–1795)
No full textThis essay examines how the French Revolution and the controversy it spawned figure in one of the most important British women’s magazines of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century: George Robinson’s Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832). Even though most scholars who have written on the magazine have dismissed it as an organ of female domestication, Koenraad Claes demonstrates that this pioneering publication is uniquely qualified as a document on this politically turbulent period. While the Lady’s Magazine, like most magazines, cannot be said to be a straightforward organ of any ideological position, it consistently made room for radical reformist views of the likes of Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Paine, Helen Maria Williams and Mary Wollstonecraft. Through a detailed analysis of how the successive phases of the Revolution Controversy, Claes reveals how readers of this period’s British women’s periodicals were better informed about ongoing political debates than we have long presumed
Take me with you
No full text6 Untitled Paintings and 7 music compositions for collaborative video "Songs for Dead Sculptures" with Alex Schady.Curated by contributing artists, Alex Schady and Rolina Blok with Koenraad Claes and Gordon Hon. Based on different forms of artistic collaboration including with non-human objects.Exhibition text: take me withh you... This exhibition is pitiful; it implores the viewer, like a desperate, jilted lover, a clingy friend or friendless sibling. It also commands, requests, offers and entreats. There may or may not be an implicit warning; an unspoken “or else …” containing an unspecified threat in its ellipsis.We accept that we are, in WJT Mitchell’s words "stuck with our magical, premodern attitudes toward objects" and that our task is not to "overcome these attitudes," but neither is to understand them or "work through their symptomatology”.If there is something pathological in our relationships to the inanimate objects that we produce then so be it; the objects will also be symptomatic of unhealthy relationships. This exhibition assumes that objects have non-human agency; that this agency is unknowable and has nothing to do with the human appetites and desires projected on to them. It is beyond the reification of value and resists commodification. It will outlive capitalism and the human species. It lies dormant in a landfill, an unused scratch-card at the back of a kitchen drawer, a painting in anempty gallery.These collaborations are tactical, a way of escaping the claustrophobia of being alone with the work. A way of avoiding the co-dependency with an indifferent or even hostile object. It is an admission of defeat. We have conceded that we need help in dealing with these objects; that we need another human in the room.take me with you is a two-episode project at The Koppel Project Hive. This exhibition is Part one of the project which will be open until 18 February 2022, followed by the second part bringing together at the gallery an Art School with staff and students from Central Saint Martins, City Lit, ENSAV La Cambre and The Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp
Transcoding Structural Ornamentation: A track-report of migrating characteristics around Villa Empain
No full textThis visual essay reports on an artistic research residency that took place in and around Villa Empain in Brussels. The various explorations that were undertaken over a one- month period oscillated between the villa, the Vossenplein that houses a large flea market, and the studio space of the residency. A crucial part of the collaborative process was the continuous production and (re)adaptation ? the ‘transcoding’ ? of works across these various contexts.
The term ‘transcoding’ refers not only to the jumping back and forth between ornament and structure, rest material and essence, but also between locations, scales and configurations. Where ? like in video transcoding ? the effect can be minimal or substantial depending on the settings. Our visual essay attempts to organise the (spatial, physical, material) results of these movements back and forth. It visually depicts the dialogues that took place across three sites and three artistic practices
The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Winter 2023
No full textCharles Lamb Bulletin Winter 2023 edition with essays by Philip W. Martin, Bryony Streets, Clay Daniel and Essaka Joshua. Reviews by Eva Lippold, Richard Cronin, Emma Mason, Sharon Ruston, R.M. Healy, Koenraad Claes, Paul Stephens. pp. 112
Claes Oldenburg : Raw Notes : Documents and Spirits of the Performances : "Stars", "Moveyhouse", "Massage", "The Typewriter" with Annotations by the Author
No full textReproduces Oldenburg's complete unaltered collection of documents (including scripts, notes, instructions, theory) relating to four performances dating from 1963-1968, transcribed from their original form. Includes annotations by the author and examples of the original manuscripts
'Due encouragement' : the consecration of female authorship through reader contributions and extracts in the first series of The Lady's Magazine (1770–1819)
No full textAs Linda Peterson has demonstrated, the British periodical press after the Napoleonic Wars incorporated new authorial identities that aided authors in the development of their careers. Notably, influential women authors seized upon these innovations as an opportunity to gain recognition as legitimate participants in the literary field, what Bourdieu has called "consecration." This article examines a pioneering women's periodical of the preceding period, the Lady's Magazine, arguing that it had already modestly aided in the consecration of female authorship by means of inclusive editorial policies that would become problematic in the early nineteenth century
Parade's End and the modernist legacy of nineteenth-century literary Toryism
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