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EPISODE · May 24, 2021 · 1H 16M

Contemplative Cracks and Lo-Fi Tech (DEAN KENNING)

from ART FICTIONS · host Jillian Knipe

Guest artist DEAN KENNING joins me to chat about his work via John Maxwell Coetzee's 2013 allegorical novel 'The Childhood of Jesus'. The story revolves around five year old David with his father-by-default Símon, on their quest to find a mother for the boy and a better life for the three of them.  Winner of this year's prestigious Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Dean Kenning, and I go on to discuss his clunky sculptures, social body-mind maps and his philosophical mish mash 'Metallurgy of the Subject'. We delve into the cracks between the flatness to explore ideas around satire, proliferation, bad infinity, socialist utopia, universal modes of seeing the world, common language, allegorical imagery, the importance of the father, avoidance of composition, a dislike for kinetic work, redundant technology, history as a bloody struggle and poo in sausages.   (This episode is produced by Jillian Knipe with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   DEAN KENNING deankenning.com instagram Dean Kenning notfairbear 'The Origin of Life' 2019 'Psychobotanical' 2019 Matt's Gallery 'Renaissance Man' 2017 'Metallurgy of the Subject' ongoing   ARTISTS Antony Gormley 'Angel of the North' 1998 David Bowie (musician) Emma Cousin 'Chats in Lockdown' podcast English Heretic (musicians) Hieronymus Bosch Kiki Smith 'Her Memory' Fundació Joan Miró Leonardo da Vinci 'Vitruvian Man' Paul McCarthy 'Painter' 1995   BOOKS & THEORISTS Benjamin Markovits (writer) C L R James 'The Black Jacobins' 1938 Colm Tóibín 'The Testament of Mary' 2012 Franz Schubert (composer) Immanuel Kant (philosopher) J M Coetzee 'Disgrace' 1999 J M Coetzee 'Waiting for the Barbarians' 1980 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 'Erlkönig' 1782 Jacques Lacan (psychoanalyist) Jean Fisher (professor, art critic, writer) Jean-Luc Nancy 'The Inoperative Community' 1986 John Roberts (philosopher) 'Dean Kenning's Kinetics' 2019 Jorge Luis Borges 'Three Versions of Judas' 1944 Joyce Carol Oates 'My Life as a Rat' 2019 Karl Marx Kazuo Ishiguro 'The Buried Giant' 2015 Plato 'Republic' 375BC Russell Hoban 'Riddley Walker' 1980 Susan Buck-Morss (professor, philosopher, historian) William Burrows (writer) William Morris 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' 1885 Walter Benjamin (philosopher) William Playfair (engineer)   TELEVISION 'Day of the Triffids' from 1981  'Dr Who' from 1963 Kenny Everett  

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Guest artist DEAN KENNING joins me to chat about his work via John Maxwell Coetzee's 2013 allegorical novel 'The Childhood of Jesus'. The story revolves around five year old David with his father-by-default Símon, on their quest to find a mother for the boy and a better life for the three of them.  Winner of this year's prestigious Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Dean Kenning, and I go on to discuss his clunky sculptures, social body-mind maps and his philosophical mish mash 'Metallurgy of the Subject'. We delve into the cracks between the flatness to explore ideas around satire, proliferation, bad infinity, socialist utopia, universal modes of seeing the world, common language, allegorical imagery, the importance of the father, avoidance of composition, a dislike for kinetic work, redundant technology, history as a bloody struggle and poo in sausages.   (This episode is produced by Jillian Knipe with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   DEAN KENNING deankenning.com instagram Dean Kenning notfairbear 'The Origin of Life' 2019 'Psychobotanical' 2019 Matt's Gallery 'Renaissance Man' 2017 'Metallurgy of the Subject' ongoing   ARTISTS Antony Gormley 'Angel of the North' 1998 David Bowie (musician) Emma Cousin 'Chats in Lockdown' podcast English Heretic (musicians) Hieronymus Bosch Kiki Smith 'Her Memory' Fundació Joan Miró Leonardo da Vinci 'Vitruvian Man' Paul McCarthy 'Painter' 1995   BOOKS & THEORISTS Benjamin Markovits (writer) C L R James 'The Black Jacobins' 1938 Colm Tóibín 'The Testament of Mary' 2012 Franz Schubert (composer) Immanuel Kant (philosopher) J M Coetzee 'Disgrace' 1999 J M Coetzee 'Waiting for the Barbarians' 1980 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 'Erlkönig' 1782 Jacques Lacan (psychoanalyist) Jean Fisher (professor, art critic, writer) Jean-Luc Nancy 'The Inoperative Community' 1986 John Roberts (philosopher) 'Dean Kenning's Kinetics' 2019 Jorge Luis Borges 'Three Versions of Judas' 1944 Joyce Carol Oates 'My Life as a Rat' 2019 Karl Marx Kazuo Ishiguro 'The Buried Giant' 2015 Plato 'Republic' 375BC Russell Hoban 'Riddley Walker' 1980 Susan Buck-Morss (professor, philosopher, historian) William Burrows (writer) William Morris 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' 1885 Walter Benjamin (philosopher) William Playfair (engineer)   TELEVISION 'Day of the Triffids' from 1981  'Dr Who' from 1963 Kenny Everett

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Guest artist DEAN KENNING joins me to chat about his work via John Maxwell Coetzee's 2013 allegorical novel 'The Childhood of Jesus'. The story revolves around five year old David with his father-by-default Símon, on their quest to find a mother for...

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