Keith Harrison Ceramics

He says i am interested in what happens when you activate a material.

Keith harrison ceramics.

As we watch harrison s performance ceramic dust is shaken to the floor and several of the clay mutes begin to crack. Other artists to have inspired harrison include radical ceramicist gillian lowndes and the argentinean conceptual artist victor grippo whose most well known work harnessed the electrical potential of potatoes. This is rare footage from recent lecture from december 2009. Keith harrison british ceramics biennial 2013.

Live ceramics all the elements have been replace with un fired clay then switched on and left to bake. This sense of switching on or making a material live has connotations back to music and performance in a broad sense. So then choosing keith harrison became a straight forward decision. How on earth do you go about making ceramic records.

He didn t intend or expect to be a ceramicist and in a bizarre set of circumstances was banned from the ceramics room on the first day of his art foundation course in bournville. An english clay artists who works a great deal in performance harrison was banned from the ceramics studio in school and so was forced to think in unconventional ways. Last year a group of students from bath spa ably driven by out tutor cum taxi driver keith harrison visited stoke on trent for the biennial held in the town. Posted on january 26 2014 by zenrogue.

British artist keith harrison frames his work as a catalyst for live processes and areas of practice not commonly associated with ceramics. I had to make a polyurethane cast then a silicone one and then a plaster cast from the original blue monday vinyl. October 2012 march 2013 v and a ceramics residency. Keith harrison blue monday white label ceramic records 2009.

Faux terracotta plastic flower pots enhance the spode entrance. A public demonstration hochauser auditorium v and a museum november 2012 circulation v and a museum. Then i made a copy using porcelain casting slip.