Reverse Histories Workshop
A workshop for pressing and casting clay from Historic plaques and Architectural forms / Tin Sheds Gallery + USYD Campus

‘The act of casting site-specific material, historic plaques, monuments, and architectural surfaces in various media such as clay, plaster, silicon, glass, metal, bronze, and brick carry significant social and cultural meaning. By replicating structures in tangible materials, we preserve their memory and history for future generations’. In REVERSE ARCHAEOLOGIES we have looked at historical monuments, plaques and memorials as sites of cultural and architectural fragmentation, referencing the Japanese artist Genpei Asagawa’s term for useless or formless architecture - “Mukei Jutaku”.

When
Thursday, August 15, 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Where
Tin Sheds Gallery, Wilkinson Building, 148 City Rd, Darlington NSW, 2008

In this workshop participants will join exhibition artist Jesse Hogan (Associate Professor of Painting - Tokyo University of the Arts) on a walk around the University of Sydney campus in search of plaques and architectural forms, using bags of clay provided by Keane Ceramics - to take cast impressions of such found formations. Hogan will instruct participants on the method used in his ‘Reverse Histories’ exhibition works, discussing the ideas inherent in the process, and the material exploration in the act of pressing and casting. The group will uncover their own insights and understanding of the process as we return to the gallery to observe the workshop sculptures alongside the other samples and fragments on display. Participants will have the opportunity to take their fresh casts home with them or leave them with the artist to be fired and available for pick up at a later date during the exhibition duration.

Image credit: Jesse Hogan, Reverse Histories, Notes on Sydenham, Cast Keane Terracotta Clay Fired (Cast 1), 3x18x21cm