archive-only
Chris says that everything he knows about the intersection between the museum world and experimental art practices can be represented in the act of drawing. I know from personal experience that he will not write anything - an essay such as ‘Studio Ruins’ or a conference paper like our co-authored ‘Rituals of Refurbishment’ - without using drawing to think things through. This is a process of clarification rather than communication: no public acts of display follow, only a folding up and putting away for solitary safe keeping - they are 'archive-only'. This mirrors the beautiful Tantric diagrams we have studied in UK museum collections. Such images were themselves usually folded because, having been purchased on Indian streets as magic charms, they were carried around for good luck.
'the refurbishment of the Hayward Gallery conjures old magic and creates new ghosts …' (2018)
customised 1971 Arts Council catalogue, pencil and crayon drawings on folded Fabriano Bioprima paper
customised 1971 Arts Council catalogue, pencil and crayon drawings on folded Fabriano Bioprima paper
Rituals of Refurbishment (2018), associated talkstudio MP4 files
(part 1)
(part 2)
(part 3)