{"product_id":"lecture-a-way-of-reading-contemporary-ceramics-by-richard-penn","title":"Lecture - A Way of Reading: Contemporary Ceramics by Richard Penn","description":"\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-pre-wrap gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Way of Reading: Contemporary Ceramics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-pre-wrap gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eT\u003cspan\u003ewo Public Lectures by Richard Penn at Public Record Saturday 18 July and Saturday 25 July, 10:30am for about one hour lecture + open conversations at the end. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContemporary ceramics\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the most vital and restless fields in art and making right now. It is also one of the most difficult to navigate. The range of work being produced across sculpture, installation, functional ware, conceptual practice, and everything in between, can feel bewildering even to those already familiar with the medium. These two lectures offer a way in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRather than tracing movements or assigning works to categories or themes, they propose a method for reading contemporary ceramics, one grounded not in theory but in the conditions of the medium itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLecture 1 — Saturday 18 July: The Method\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCeramics carries an unusually complex inheritance. It sits at the intersection of art and craft, of the functional and the sculptural, of the domestic and the monumental. That position has never been fully resolved, and contemporary practice doesn't resolve it either. It works within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAnd then there is clay itself. Clay is not a neutral material. It moves, shrinks, and cracks. It records the decisions made during making. And once fired, it cannot be returned to its previous state. There is a point of no return. That irreversibility is not just a technical fact, it is structural. It shapes how risk, process, and transformation operate as sources of meaning in the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIt is from these conditions, the medium's relationship with craft and function, and the particular behaviour of clay as a material, that this lecture develops its method. A way of locating what a work is doing, where its pressure lies, and what it is refusing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe lecture also addresses a question that often goes unasked: what do we actually mean by contemporary? Not all ceramics made today is contemporary ceramics in any meaningful sense, and understanding that distinction turns out to be one of the most useful tools we have for navigating the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLecture 2 — Saturday 25 July: The Method in Practice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe second lecture puts that framework to work. Moving through nine works and practices in sequence, it tests what the method can and cannot do, showing how the same fundamental pressures can produce completely different results in completely different practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe works and practices covered range across installation, vessel, surface, and process from Simone Leigh's engagement with the logic of architecture and the body, to Ai Weiwei's deployment of one hundred million hand-made objects, to the surfaces of Wi Taepa, the material histories of Theaster Gates, the kiln practice of Andrea du Chatenier, and the self-imposed rules of Toby Twiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBooking essential  - (Limited seats available) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSaturday morning lecture - $10 per person \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAny enquiries - \u003ca href=\"mailto:enquiries@publicrecord.shop\" title=\"Enquqiry\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eenquiries@publicrecord.shop\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003e___\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBrochure design by Richard Penn \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTitle: 'Monument', 2022 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtist: Clare Twomey\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eExhibition: The Flames: The Age of Ceramics, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eVenue: Musee D'Art Moderne De Paris\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Richard Penn","offers":[{"title":"18 July (Sat) from 10:30am ~","offer_id":46028079038662,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true},{"title":"25 July (Sat) from 10:30am ~","offer_id":46028079071430,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0292\/0608\/5716\/files\/1.png?v=1783303826","url":"https:\/\/publicrecord.nz\/products\/lecture-a-way-of-reading-contemporary-ceramics-by-richard-penn","provider":"Public Record ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}