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Travis Jeppesen er Hordaland kunstsenters gjest i november, og gjør en opplesning og presentasjon av sin praksis.

Travis Jeppesen er skribent og kunstner, bosatt i Berlin. Han har skrevet en rekke romaner, blant annet The Suiciders, Victims, og Wolf at the Door. Han skriver kunstkritikk og står bak konseptet kalt objekt-orientert skriving, en slags metafysisk form for å skrive som forsøker å kanalisere objekters indre liv. Jeppesens første store objekt-orienterte skriveprosjekt, titulert 16 Sculptures, ble publisert i bokform av Publication Studio, presentert ved Whitney-biennalen som en lydinstallasjon, og utgjorde utgangspunktet for en separatutstilling ved Wilkinson Gallery i London. En annen utstilling og publikasjon med Jeppesens kalligrafiske arbeid, New Writing, ble lansert ved Exile, Berlin, mai 2016. Jeppesens siste bok, See You Again in Pyongyang, blir gitt ut på Hachette i 2018.

http://disorientations.com/

Travis Jeppesen er en av de utvalgte deltakerne i Hordaland kunstsenters gjesteprogram for 2017/2018 med tittelen “Writing as and Around Art”. Du kan lese om de andre deltakerne her.

Arrangementet har gratis inngang og er åpent for alle interesserte. Drikke er for salg i baren. Velkommen!

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Travis Jeppesen is our new artist-in-residence in November, and will make a public presentation of his work.

Travis Jeppesen is a writer and artist based in Berlin. He is the author of several novels, including The Suiciders, Victims, and Wolf at the Door. In addition to his art criticism, he is known as the creator of object-oriented writing, a metaphysical form of writing-as-embodiment that attempts to channel the inner lives of objects. His first major object-oriented writing project, 16 Sculptures, was published in book format by Publication Studio, featured in the Whitney Biennial as an audio installation, and was the subject of a solo exhibition at Wilkinson Gallery in London. More recently, an exhibition and publication of his calligraphic work, New Writing, was launched at Exile, Berlin, in May 2016. Jeppesen’s latest book, See You Again in Pyongyang, is forthcoming from Hachette in 2018.

http://disorientations.com/

Travis Jeppesen is one of the selected participants for Hordaland kunstsenter’s 2017/2018 residency programme “Writing as and Around Art”. You can read about the other participants here.

Free admission and open to all. The bar provides a selection of drinks. Welcome!

‘The Critic as Artist’
curated by Michael Bracewell and Andrew Hunt

Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH, United Kingdom

Opening: Saturday 7 October 2017
Exhibition runs: 7 October 2017 to 28 January 2018

Including work by Miles Aldridge, Stephen Buckley, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lucienne Cole, Dexter Dalwood, Kaye Donachie, Donna Huddleston, Travis Jeppesen, Gareth Jones, Scott King, Linder, Bertie Marshall, Malcolm Mclaren, Katrina Palmer, Alessandro Raho, Simeon Soloman, and Cally Spooner.

‘The Critic as Artist’ is an exhibition at Reading Museum about and for the Irish writer and dramatist Oscar Wilde, who had been a visitor to Reading prior to his imprisonment at Reading Gaol, and whose ideas and legend remain startlingly contemporary.

Appropriately, the museum in Reading is housed in a building partially designed by Waterhouse which opened in 1883, the year Wilde set sail to ‘declare his genius’ to America. Rather than focus on Wilde’s sensational and tragic downfall, as is too often the case, ‘The Critic as Artist’ examines the author’s theories of aesthetics and art criticism, which advocated freedom from moral restraint and the limitations of society, as well as the creative ability of criticism to reach beyond the limitations of the work of art. These were and remain radical, integral to a developing idea of ‘the modern’ and above all joyously balanced between seriousness, ironic play, provocation, poetry and paradox.

With this in mind, the exhibition is titled after Wilde’s celebrated essay of 1891, in which he lays out the central points of his aesthetic and art critical theories. Wilde subtitled his essay, ‘With some remarks upon the importance of doing nothing’ – championing indolence as necessary to artistic cultivation, and pose, repose and contemplation as elevated modes of existence – very much in the lineage of what Kierkegaard had previously defined as the ‘glittering inactivity’ of the aesthetic state.

Combining the historical and the contemporary, notions of the cult of the beautiful with the role of the critic, symbolist fantasy and the many-layered relationships between life, morality and art, ‘The Critic as Artist’ aims to combine substantial homage and renewed interpretation of Wildean aesthetic theory, while remaining very much in the spirit of his own serious play – the ‘new Hellenism’ of artistic ideas.

For further information and images, please contact Kirsten Cooke, Reading International Assistant Curator on kirsten@readinginternational.org / +44 (0)118 378 8050