Week 12

Andrew Conio

"Andrew Conio is a writer, artist, and scriptwriter. He has published on a range of subjects including philosophy, architecture, language, artist’s film, institutional critique, creativity and painting and is currently editing the volume, Occupy a People Yet to Come for the Open Humanities Press, and writing a monograph entitled Savage Money. He has taught in arts schools for twenty years, including Wolverhampton, Rhamallah, Bergen, Brighton, Chelsea and is currently Director of Studies for Fine Art at Kent University. Witnessing the transformation of the Art School has led Andrew Conio to critique the epistemological and ontological tensions between the ‘provable’ and ‘demonstrable’ predicates that shore up the orthodoxies of Teaching and Learning and the artist’s demands for the contingent and the open."

As I was listening to Andrew I found it very hard to understand a lot of what he was speaking about as it was very philosophical and in quite sophisticated academic language.


Rabotor's Raputre - Jennifer Allora / Guillermo Calzadilla

"Collaborating since 1995, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have produced an experimental and interdisciplinary body of work, combining performance, sculpture, video and sound.

http://www.deconcrete.org/2012/08/04/if-theres-nothing-suddenly-something-becomes-everything/

Raptor’s Rapture (2012) is a new film involving a flute that was carved by Homo sapiens 35’000 years ago from the wing bone of a griffon vulture. Unearthed at the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany in 2009 by a team of archaelogists led by Nicholas J. Conard from the University of Tübingen, Germany, it is the oldest musical instrument found to date. This remarkable discovery brings further evidence of the role of music in early humans’ social network development, demographic and territorial expansion, and ultimately evolutionary survival.

http://www.deconcrete.org/2012/08/04/if-theres-nothing-suddenly-something-becomes-everything/


The artists invited Bernadette Käfer, a flautist specializing in prehistoric instruments, to attempt to play the flute. This action takes place in the presence of a living griffon vulture – an evolutionary descendant of one of the oldest creatures to have inhabited the earth, and currently threatened with extinction."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL3-UrCSBjs

Additional Notes:

  • Occupy campaign
  • Anthroposcene - popular growth etc.
  • Annehe Wehrmann - 'Wellness Am See"
  • Andreas Sickmann - 'Trickle Down'
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