Welcome to our October discussion, ³Contextualizing Making Sense. The alignment of criticality and configurations of embodiment and space permit creative flows of networks, resources, research and discussions whose configurations prove limitless.
Lorna Collins and her team of collaborators have invited Tim and I to represent empyre this month at the ³Making Sense Colloquium² at the IRI-Centre Pompidou, Institut Télécom the 19th and 20th of October. http://www.makingsensesociety.org/ <http://www.makingsensesociety.org/> Lorna is a theorist and a PhD student at the University of Cambridge where she is a Foundation Scholar at Jesus College. Her academic research pushes to forge the development of Making Sense via her research and writing but also through various events such as the ³Making Sense² colloquium. The colloquium brings together a wide variety of international theorists and artists some of whom will be our guests this month on empyre. Both independently and collaboratively, Tim and I have worked between the spaces of theory and practice for many years. Through Tim¹s international curating as well as his work in founding and directing the Rose Goldsen Archive for New Media Art and in my case the founding and directing of The Tinker Factory, an interdisciplinary lab for research and practice we have independently found venues for forging theory and practice. Together our collaboration with empyre has given us an opportunity to investigate the negotiations between theory and practice historically in May 2009 our discussion Critical Motion Practice merged intersections that entailed both self-reflective and interactive movement at the intersections of art, choreography, architecture, activism and theory. Again in September, 2007 our discussion on Critical Spatial Practice highlighted themes of social responsibility at cross-disciplinary intersections. The questions we asked revolved between the technological and critical approaches between practice and theory and how those questions empowered creativity, enhanced artistic activism and encouraged artistic/performance practice and collaboration. We are looking forward to joining the Making Sense participants and anticipate the international online discussion that will evolve with our 1400 subscribers. Each week we will highlight a handful of Making Sense guests in hopes that their own project descriptions will entice our members to add their own ideas and comments. Together collaboratively we are hoping to open up the discussion of Making Sense. As an artist my practice involves instincts, whim, research, reading, discussion, investigation and critical analysis. When a research thread ³makes sense² I assume that my inquiry is finished and the project is finished a cue to proceed to the next. The act of ³Making Sense² implies a search for resolution. Though in the process of making it is the uneasiness, the questioning, the restlessness, the point that is not making sense that excites me to continue. Welcome to ³Contextualizing Making Sense² or not? We would like to welcome Lorna Collins as our first guest. We will begin this month on empyre by asking Lorna to answer a few questions for our -empyre members. Can you fill us in a bit more about your own work as it relates to the Making Sense Colloquium? Additionally what can we expect from the forum itself coming up in a few weeks? Renate and Tim Renate Ferro URL: http://www.renateferro.net Email: <r...@cornell.edu> , Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Co-moderator of _empyre soft skinned space http://www.subtle.net/empyre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre Art Editor, diacritics http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/ _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
