HOW METHOD GETS MADE: Performative Acts and Experimental Investigations.

For over a decade, Sara Morawetz has taken measure of the world (and what lies just beyond it). From a 112-day/2,100km walk to remeasure the size of the Earth, to a 37-day/36-sol action living according to time as it is measured on Mars, she has built her interdisciplinary practice as a form of experimental investigation, employing conceptual frameworks and performative actions to explore (and exploit) the systems and structures we routinely take for granted. This talk will provide an overview of the artist’s work and consider her methodological, test-based practices that transform ideas into actions/artworks/artefacts that interrogate our perception of all that we know (and how we’ve come to know it).

Dr Sara Morawetz is a conceptual artist whose research-based, interdisciplinary practice reflects critically and poetically on the matter and methods of science. Interested in the systems and structures that shape how we see and what we know, her work interrogates scientific and cultural apparatus that convey precision, accuracy and determinacy, yet remain slippery, speculative and whimsical when ‘tested in the field.’

Her projects involve collaborations with scientists from MIT, NASA and NIST, and her work has been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, including exhibitions at the Museé des Arts et Métiers, Australian Consulate-General New York, RAPID PULSE, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and Dominik Mersch Gallery. Sara was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Sydney and has received numerous awards and prizes including ‘the churchie’ National Emerging Art Prize, the Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship, the Marten Bequest Scholarship, as well as project funding from Creative Australia. Her work has been featured in publications including Frieze, Forbes, Scientific American, Aesthetica, Artist Profile, Prime: Arts Next Generation (Phaidon) and Documents of Contemporary Art: WALKING (Whitechapel Gallery / MIT Press).

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This forum will be presented live at the Dechaineux LT on the Hunter Street Campus and streamed to the Rory Spence LT on the Inveresk Campus. If you are unable to attend in person at either campus please join us via Zoom, Meeting ID: 823 6869 8071

Image credit: 2015, courtesy of the artist