Being There – inaugural lecture from Professor Matthew Cornford
Published 22 March 2010
Event 22 April 2010
Working in collaboration with David Cross, Matthew Cornford has gained national and international recognition as an artist. Cornford & Cross began collaborating while studying at Saint Martin's School of Art in 1987, and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1991.
Cornford & Cross investigate art's ability to test concepts, boundaries and definitions in an open society. Their work engages with the spatial, social and historical contexts of specific sites, forming a critical interaction with the people and organizations that occupy them. Accordingly, each of their projects has been different, not only in form but in content.
In this lecture Professor Cornford will outline his concern with the relationship between the site, material action, and photographic image. Starting with key formative influences, such as LP covers, music, conceptual documents and photographs, he will articulate how these points of reference helped shape and inform what has become a long-term collaborative art practice. Central to the lecture will be an acknowledgment of what it means to work collaboratively as an artist, and how difference of interest, experience and view is integral to his working practice.
The lecture will feature a number of projects by Cornford & Cross, and examine the use of displacement, immateriality, and participation in the works' development and realisation.
'Cornford & Cross' (192pp, hb) which includes artists' texts, photographs and critical essays by John Roberts and Rachel Withers, was published in 2009 by Black Dog London.
Being There: making art in context
Matthew Cornford
Professor of Fine Art
Thursday 22 April 2010 at 6.30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
University of Brighton
Grand Parade
Brighton BN2 0JY
Light refreshments will be served after the lecture. All welcome.
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