Activity: Visiting an external institution › Research and teaching at external organisation
Description
Depth of Field: Towards a Sculptural Poetics
Holly Corfield Carr will be conducting research into the writing practices of sculptors working with text in Britain after 1960. Her fellowship will pay particular attention to both the sculptural and poetic outputs of Brian Catling, whose papers are held in the HMI archives, and to the site-specific narratives in the work of Katrina Palmer, whose show The Necropolitan Line opened at the Institute in December 2015.
Proposing a shared idiom between sculptors’ writings and a contemporary turn towards situated poetries, this interdisciplinary project seeks to develop a series of models of attention appropriate for reading a sculptor’s novel or a poet’s sundial.