The living contradiction

Burgoyne, Greig (2022) The living contradiction. [Drawing, Exhibition/show, Installation, Performance, Site-specific work]

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Creators:
Burgoyne, Greig
Description/Abstract:

The living contradiction is a five-day residency culminating in a series of works that respond to the site that is PS2. Through installation, film and live performance Burgoyne’s practice is a rule based, process led but expansive drawing practice wrestling body, site relations and their subsequent paradoxes. Often verging on the absurd, the outcomes he sees as residual scraps of that forming and unforming that is the interplay between appearance and presentness. During his time in PS2 he seeks to continue his focus on phenomenological concerns around invisibility and visibility e.g. what is present when we draw, and where is this actuality located.
The title of this new project, and his first in Belfast, derives from a term discussed by Emmanuel Levinas, living contradiction is namely the past orientated nature of our daily existence alongside a future directed intentionality, as such our lives oscillate between two fluid and divergent paths. In terms of drawing, Burgoyne seeks to both expand and paradoxically disperse the traditional trope of drawing as a means to cover. Contesting that drawing is a manifestation of surfaces or exteriorities, Burgoyne offers up situations that by the act of covering are in fact seeking to unconceal the thingness of drawing that resides within that materiality- itsdrawingness. In doings so, Inside drawing-The living contradiction offers a series of propositions in the form of installation, film and live performance less based on what has appeared or appearance per se, but instead indicative of drawing as an incessant coming into appearance. Between thing and event, object and subject, embodiment and worlding.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Date:
June 2022
Funders:
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
PS2 Gallery, Belfast, UK
20 June 2022
25 June 2022
Schools:
School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography
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Depositing User:
Mr Greig Burgoyne
Date Deposited:
16 Sep 2022 08:48
Last Modified:
04 Oct 2022 10:43
Art/Design Categories:
Drawing, Exhibition/show, Installation, Performance, Site-specific work
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5813

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