RESEARCH
robin marriner
Generally, interested in what is verbalisable about the visual, or how visual objects mean and what can be said about that. Research explores (and occasionally perhaps contributes to contemporary art culture ) the relationships between theory and practice and criticism in relation to contemporary art, particularly painting, photography, and sculpture.
All my published material has with varying degrees of emphasis engaged with both theoretical issues and the reading of visual work (offering readings contesting the ‘received ones’), for example in those listed below the ‘LA Law’ piece is weighted towards a discussion of the works, the Derrida weighted towards theory, and the Paying One’s Dues piece fairly equally balanced, involving a critique of Barthes and a discussion of the paintings of Ofili and Ortez-Torres. Of concern in all of them, (and in earlier publications) are epistemological issues concerning the conditions of meaning of art works and in particular a consideration of the way in which those condition are differently perceived within Modernism and Postmodernism.
Method: writing that is dependent upon a sustained familiarity with contemporary art and theory, necessitating considerable reading, first hand viewing of work, visiting of (dealers' and public) galleries (where possible internationally), and occasional visits to studios and interviews with artists.
Recent exhibitions and publications:
- 2006 - On Sampling the Pleasures of Visual Culture: Postmodernism and Art Education. Art Education in a Postmodern World ed Hardy T. NSEA Intellect Books ISBN 1841501468
- 2005 - Paying One's Dues: refiguring agency, authenticity and originality. Predicaments in Visual Culture : Theorising Creativity. University West England.
- 2003 - Derrida and the Parergon. Companion to Art Theory ed Smith P & Wilde C. Blackwells ISBN 0 -631-20762-7
- 2002 - Strategies for Contemporary Painting: LA Law. Contemporary Visual Arts