Dr Alistair
Payne
Resistance and Persistence:
Exploring the condition or position of Painting
11am, Friday 23 November
2012
In this talk Dr Alistair Payne will discuss his work and writing
in relation to notions of Interdisciplinarity in relation to new
forms for contemporary Painting practices. He will examine the
interdisciplinary potential of Painting primarily through the
writing of Gilles Deleuze and look at connections and relationships
between painting, three-dimensions, the moving image and time.
This talk derives from an ongoing investigation into the
philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and initiates a discussion around
notions of medium-specificity. The ideas contained within
renegotiate the theorization and realization of painting by
proposing a commonality with Bergsonian and Deleuzian motifs of the
virtual. Inclusive of close connections with architectural theory
this talk will propose ideas of change and the new in relation to
Deleuzian becomings.
The two terms Resistance
and Persistence will be
discussed in order to outline a number of key factors implicated
within the condition of Painting today.
He will close his talk by proposing a differentation between the
possibilities of Interdisciplinarity, in relation to Deleuze and
the notion of Indisciplinarity recently discussed by Jacques
Ranciere outlining the proposition of subversion as an ongoing
strategy for making.
Since September 2012 Dr Alistair
Payne has been the Programme Leader UG Fine Art at Glasgow School
of Art. Previously he was the MA Fine Art Course Leader and Senior
Lecturer in Fine Art (Painting) at The University of Wolverhampton.
He has also worked at Manchester Metropolitan University in the
Painting Department (2002-2005) and as a Visiting Lecturer at
different UK institutions. In 2006 he was awarded a PhD from
Chelsea College of Art, he also has a Fine Art Degree from The
University of Hertfordshire and an MFA from The University of
Newcastle upon Tyne.
In 2013 he has a book chapter
titled 'The Virtual and Interdisciplinarity' being published
through IGI Global and will be exhibiting his new work at the
Beton7 Gallery, Athens. In 2008 he published the book 'Painting as
an Interdisciplinary Form' and he has also exhibited widely
throughout the UK and also in the US. Over the last four years he
has organised painting conferences and exhibitions collaboratively
under the title 'Conversations in Painting'.
