SEMINAR: SymbioticA Thursday Seminar: Relations to the Immaterial

There is no way that a vague and jargon-heavy paragraph will give you any idea of what an artist's work will be. What is the purpose of a description of the work - is it meant to provoke thoughts? questions? confusion? Certainly not to actually tell the viewer what the work is or does. Because if I told you what the work was, why would you need to see it? Words like 'space', 'body' and 'relation' have all but no content when they are used to generalize in place of specific and meaningful gestures. Filling up a paragraph with words is a formal gesture, a placeholder occupying a comfortable location in the suburban neighbourhood of the work, not too close, and perhaps just civilly sharing a fence or some bushes.

Joshua Schwebel is a Canadian artist in the third person, currently in residence at PICA. He will try to show you only the best, only the best, none of the worst.

http://joshuaschwebel.com/

Location: SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia.

All welcome.

Join Josh at PICA for his Artist Talk and Studio Opening 2 September, 6-8pm. http://www.pica.org.au/view/Josh+Schwebel+%28Canada%29/968/