{"id":4394,"date":"2018-02-26T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:05:33","slug":"michelle-atherton-arp-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/michelle-atherton-arp-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Atherton’s ‘ARP: Absorbing red photons 2016’ installed at Georgia State University, Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michelle Atherton<\/a>\u2019s video installation ARP: Absorbing red photons 2016 <\/em>(2017)<\/a> was installed with an accompanying paper presentation at Rendering (the) Visible III:\u00a0<\/em>Liquidity<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.<\/p>\n

The conference explored the concept of liquidity as an innovative critical approach to the image\u2019s relation to space, sensoriality, and digitality, as well as an aesthetic sensibility attuned to the political ontology of motion, form, matter, and noise. Over several years, one of the research groups within the Film Studies Department, titled Liquid Blackness<\/em> has been exploring some of the above ideas, specifically in relation to race. \u00a0\u201cRendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity\u201d connects this concept more broadly with an increasing turn within the study of moving image culture toward affective relations, plasticity, resonances and flows, whereby images and sounds\u2014no longer grounded in an analogical relation to the real\u2014are seen variously as malleable, untethered, \u201cviral,\u201d or fluid.<\/p>\n

Michelle Atherton’s installation at the conference ARP <\/em>is the second in a trilogy of videos, which began with Dreams of Flying<\/em>,<\/a> that use the tourist trip as a methodological starting point for the artworks. The video installation and text explore what might be a stake in an act of submersion in a space of perpetual darkness. The video uses footage shot from a descent, 2,000 feet below sea level, off the coast of Roatan, Honduras and presents the view from the submersible\u2019s thirty-inch porthole.<\/p>\n

ARP <\/em>aims to challenge our centrality in relation to a scene in which we become completely immersed, but severed. One in which we ultimately cannot locate our gaze, our sense of self. It asks what it means to be surrounded in space that it is impossible to inhabit. The piece questions the primacy of the visual and our relations with a space of alterity, where everyday dynamics need to be redefined.<\/p>\n

ARP <\/em>has been supported by the Art & Design Research Centre<\/a>, at Sheffield Institute of Arts<\/a>, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and through a residency at BANFF Centre for Arts and Creativity<\/a>, Canada 2017. Find out more about Michelle Atherton’s residency in her Blog post\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2018 Conference<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/imr\/2018\/02\/13\/arp-absorbing-red-photons-2016<\/a><\/p>\n

Michelle Atherton<\/a>\u00a0is Senior Lecturer in Sheffield Institute of Arts (SIA<\/a>)\u00a0and a member of the\u00a0Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC<\/a>) within C3RI. Michelle’s research explores the resistance of space through the encounter with the image, often using\u00a0cultural phenomena as a starting point to discuss structures and systems. Michelle’s work has been widely exhibited in a range of galleries and art museums across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Atherton\u2019s video installation ARP: Absorbing red photons 2016 (2017) was installed with an accompanying paper presentation at Rendering (the) Visible III:\u00a0Liquidity\u00a0at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. The conference explored the concept of liquidity as an innovative critical approach to the image\u2019s relation to space, sensoriality, and digitality, as well as an aesthetic sensibility attuned to the political ontology of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":4397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,656,109,657,264],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-atlanta","tag-fine-art-research","tag-installation","tag-michelle-atherton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/02\/ATHERTON-2018-02-Atlanta-ARP.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-18S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5107,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atherton-arp-liquidscapes\/","url_meta":{"origin":4394,"position":0},"title":"Michelle Atherton’s video installation ‘Absorbing Red Photons’ installed at ‘Liquidscapes’ international gathering at Dartington Hall","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"09\/07\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Liquidscapes Michelle Atherton\u2019s video installation ARP: Absorbing red Photons 2016 (2017) was installed at Liquidscapes: tales and telling of watery worlds and fluid states at Dartington Hall in Devon this June, at\u00a0a three-day international gathering bringing together creative thinkers, writers, academics and artists to explore physically and figuratively our watery\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Still from video installation 'Absorbing Red Photons' by Michelle Atherton, courtesy of the artist","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/07\/ATHERTON-2018-06-Absorbing-Red-Photons-at-Liquidscapes.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/07\/ATHERTON-2018-06-Absorbing-Red-Photons-at-Liquidscapes.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/07\/ATHERTON-2018-06-Absorbing-Red-Photons-at-Liquidscapes.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/07\/ATHERTON-2018-06-Absorbing-Red-Photons-at-Liquidscapes.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1216,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/research-seminar-michelle-atherton\/","url_meta":{"origin":4394,"position":1},"title":"Wednesday 18 May 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Michelle Atherton (Fine Art, SHU)","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"18\/05\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Title: Submersive Aesthetics Speaker: Michelle Atherton (Fine Art, SHU) Michelle Atherton is an artist whose work objectifies cultural phenomena as a means to investigate structures, systems and preoccupations. 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