TOMORROW: Hannah Higgins (Prof) & Dan Peterman (Assoc. Prof) in Salvage 2.0
Salvage 2.0: Meanings, Material, Value will consider a range of salvaged materials and ask how shifts in materiality—wrought by age, wear, neglect, recontextualization, or revolutions in manufacturing—affect the conceptual meanings and practical functions available to types of materials and processes. If the act of salvaging can be considered an act of disobedience, an effort to disrupt the 'laws' of obsolescence, disposability, and decay, then how might a multifaceted consideration of re-purposed and salvaged materials change the way we think about artistic practices and their relation to commercial and cultural worlds?
Hannah Higgins will respond to Elsewhere Collaborative founder George Scheer, speaking about Elsewhere, the "living museum inside a thrift store."
Dan Peterman will present "Things That were are Things Again," a talk on salvage in his artistic practice.
"Salvage 2.0: Meanings, Material, Value" is presented by 3CT's Object Cultures Project and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, and will take place from 3:00 to 6:00 PM on Friday, April 24 at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts,