Ferraro, Emilia

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Exhibition Dates: April - September 2017Venue: University of Aberdeen, UKFeaturing the work Contemplative Clothes by artist, Emilia Ferraro. Contemplative Clothes: 90cm x 60cm; 90cm x 60cm; 45 cm x 35cm; 30cm x 20cm. Cotton canvas, silk; organza; paper. Mixed media. Hand and machine stitches; silk threads; acrylics; ink; tea. Artist's Statement:The pieces I am presenting here came from a place within myself I did not knowexisted. In a time that equates knowing with certitude, the unfinishing of things,speaks to me of the open-endedness and uncertainty that mystique Osho calls“awe”. The generative and fertile power of NOT knowing. Whatever its definition,inspiration is born from a continuous “I don’t know”, Polish poet and NobelLaureate Wislawa Szymborska wrote.Far from being ignorance, not knowing is the acknowledgment of andsurrendering to the ongoing mystery of Life; the conscious abandonment of theneed for control to embrace the Mystery as it is unfolding now in my life. Indeed,“it is the flirting with this mystery -astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser writes- the urgeto go beyond the boundaries of the known, that feeds our creative impulse, thatmakes us want to know more”.Knowing From the Inside: Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design (or for short, KFI) is a 5-year project funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant held by Professor Tim Ingold. It commenced in June 2013, and will run until May 2018.<br/

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                                                                    University of DundeeContemplative ClothesFerraro, EmiliaPublication date:2017Link to publication in Discovery Research PortalCitation for published version (APA):Ferraro, E. (Artist). (2017). Contemplative Clothes: Group Exhibition "The Unfinishing of Things", part ofKnowing from the Inside Project, University of Aberdeen, UK. Exhibition, University of Aberdeen.General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in Discovery Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or othercopyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated withthese rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from Discovery Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain. • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal.Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediatelyand investigate your claim.Download date: 29. May. 2021The Unfinishing Of Things // Exhibition University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen // May to September 2017Things are never finished. They always overflow the ends set for them; that’s how life can carry on.If knowledge grows from practical engagement with materials, with people and with places, in what form can academic research be presented and shared with others? Alongside conventional journal articles and books, this exhibition has been an opportunity for members of the Knowing From the Inside research project to experiment with this question. Rather than communicate polished research ‘findings’, somewhat removed from life, the focus of the works presented here is on the process of research. While there is a huge diversity in individual research projects, reflecting the fact that the project’s researchers are all working with different people and practices, what unites them is the attention and value placed on a mode of working that is derived from experience, participation and conversation with others. Each exhibit, then, is an invitation to think along and with it.   The exhibition is grouped around three modes of knowing with at the heart of the KFI project: materials at the Duncan Rice Library, place in the foyer of the MacRobert building and people in the James McKay Hall. cane-root-stone-system Alfonso M. Cuadrado MuleroMATERIALS: Anne Douglas, Marc Higgin, Nicola Chambury and Paolo Maccagno; Chaoïdes Collective (Alan Vergnes, Anaïs Tondeur, Germain Meulemans, Marine Legrand; Yesenia Thibault-Picazo); Elishka Stirton; Émile Kirsch; Francesca Marin; Jo Vergunst; Judith Winter; Liz Hodson; Rachel Harkness; Solid Liquid (Cris Simonetti, Judith Winter, Rachel Harkness); Stephanie Bunn. PLACE: Alfonso M. Cuadrado Mulero and Ester Alegmane, Elizabeth Hallam, Enrico MArcore, Griet Schelderman, Jen Clarke, Paolo Gruppuso and Simona Trozzi, Rachel Harkness, Ray Lucas. PEOPLE: Alec Finlay, Caroline Gatt, Cassis Kilian and Elle Czischek, Christine Moderbacher, Christelle Becholey-Bessonand Claire Vionnet, Claire Delhumeau and Valeria Lemba, Emilia Ferraro, Peter Loovers, Tim Collins and Reiko Goto, Wonderland project (Alistair Sinclair, Amanda Ravetz, Cristina Nuñez, Diane Gleave, Jayne Gosnall, Kelly Harte, Kelly Jones, Mark Prest, Michaela Jones, Nathan Aiyna-Sassen and Nikki Farrell)

Contemplative Clothes:Group Exhibition "The Unfinishing of Things", part of Knowing from the Inside Project, University of Aberdeen, UK

                                                                    University of DundeeContemplative ClothesFerraro, EmiliaPublication date:2017Link to publication in Discovery Research PortalCitation for published version (APA):Ferraro, E. (Artist). (2017). Contemplative Clothes: Group Exhibition "The Unfinishing of Things", part ofKnowing from the Inside Project, University of Aberdeen, UK. Exhibition, University of Aberdeen.General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in Discovery Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or othercopyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated withthese rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from Discovery Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain. • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal.Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediatelyand investigate your claim.Download date: 31. Jul. 2023The Unfinishing Of Things // Exhibition University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen // May to September 2017Things are never finished. They always overflow the ends set for them; that’s how life can carry on.If knowledge grows from practical engagement with materials, with people and with places, in what form can academic research be presented and shared with others? Alongside conventional journal articles and books, this exhibition has been an opportunity for members of the Knowing From the Inside research project to experiment with this question. Rather than communicate polished research ‘findings’, somewhat removed from life, the focus of the works presented here is on the process of research. While there is a huge diversity in individual research projects, reflecting the fact that the project’s researchers are all working with different people and practices, what unites them is the attention and value placed on a mode of working that is derived from experience, participation and conversation with others. Each exhibit, then, is an invitation to think along and with it.   The exhibition is grouped around three modes of knowing with at the heart of the KFI project: materials at the Duncan Rice Library, place in the foyer of the MacRobert building and people in the James McKay Hall. cane-root-stone-system Alfonso M. Cuadrado MuleroMATERIALS: Anne Douglas, Marc Higgin, Nicola Chambury and Paolo Maccagno; Chaoïdes Collective (Alan Vergnes, Anaïs Tondeur, Germain Meulemans, Marine Legrand; Yesenia Thibault-Picazo); Elishka Stirton; Émile Kirsch; Francesca Marin; Jo Vergunst; Judith Winter; Liz Hodson; Rachel Harkness; Solid Liquid (Cris Simonetti, Judith Winter, Rachel Harkness); Stephanie Bunn. PLACE: Alfonso M. Cuadrado Mulero and Ester Alegmane, Elizabeth Hallam, Enrico MArcore, Griet Schelderman, Jen Clarke, Paolo Gruppuso and Simona Trozzi, Rachel Harkness, Ray Lucas. PEOPLE: Alec Finlay, Caroline Gatt, Cassis Kilian and Elle Czischek, Christine Moderbacher, Christelle Becholey-Bessonand Claire Vionnet, Claire Delhumeau and Valeria Lemba, Emilia Ferraro, Peter Loovers, Tim Collins and Reiko Goto, Wonderland project (Alistair Sinclair, Amanda Ravetz, Cristina Nuñez, Diane Gleave, Jayne Gosnall, Kelly Harte, Kelly Jones, Mark Prest, Michaela Jones, Nathan Aiyna-Sassen and Nikki Farrell)

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