The Hunterian

Wednesday 2 October 2019
6.00pm-7.00pm
Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
Free entry and all welcome. Booking required. 

Talk by Professor Andrew Patrizio on Ilana Halperin's work in the Hunterian Art Gallery

This talk, by a long-time supporter of Ilana Halperin’s work, spans her entire career and forms a work-in-progress on how the idea of ‘waiting’ is a central motif. Elongations of time, deferral, incubation and pause are crucial to her artistic method, paralleling themes in geology, environmental studies and theory. Halperin has been inspired by idiosyncratic, durational ways to monitor geological phenomena, far underground and across generations. As we move from acceleration to urgency, why are we waiting for Ilana Halperin?

Professor Patrizio works on contemporary art, with specialisms in Scottish art since 1945 and art, ecology and the environment. He recently published The Ecological Eye. Assembling an Ecocritical Art History (Manchester UP, 2019). In 2016 he co-curated the exhibition The Scottish Endarkenment: Art and Unreason from 1945 to the Present which was selected as one of The Guardian's top ten UK exhibitions of the year. He has collaborated with Ilana Halperin on several publications and exhibitions, including Steine at Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité (2012).

 

 

Image: Ilana Halperin, Boiling Milk Solfataras, 1999. Image courtesy of the artist and Patricia Fleming, Glasgow.

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First published: 5 September 2019