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An opportunity for undergraduates to engage one-on-one with Warnock Lecture Series speaker, Briony Fer, on topics raised in her lecture "the work-as-maquette" on November 11th:

the work-as-maquette

We usually think of a maquette as a preparatory model for an intended work, usually on a small-scale. In this talk, on the other hand, Briony Fer proposes that the idea of the maquette can also be expanded to a larger discussion of what art-making means today. Rather than simply a preparatory stage in the making of sculpture, she looks at the way the idea of a maquette can help us re-think notions of what the making process means. Taking as her starting point Roland Barthes’ claim that ‘The work-as-maquette presents itself as its own experimentation’, as outlined in his last lectures at the College de France in 1979, Fer attempts to open up the question of the time of the artwork to its possible futures. In addition to past actions and retrospective memories, the art process, on this account, is also provisional and prospective. Her terms of reference will range from consideration of the work of Eva Hesse and Gordon Matta-Clark through to the work of contemporary artists such as Gabriel Orozco.

Lunch will be provided.