Damasceno’s installation in London’s Holburn Library is designed to be explored, unfolding through the space and changing character as it does so, in a manner that mimics the act of reading.
Plot is commissioned and produced by Artangel with the support of the José Damasceno Supporters’ Circle and The Henry Moore Foundation and in partnership with London Borough of Camden.
This exhibition is accompanied by a series of events at the Swedenborg Hall in London:
6 October, 6.30pm | José Damasceno in conversation with Dawn Ades
Artist José Damasceno will be in conversation with acclaimed academic and curator, Professor Dawn Ades. Join us to hear how his Artangel project, Plot, is woven with threads of thought from the Surrealist imagination.
27 October, 6.30pm | Plotting Spaces
Architect David Kohn will respond to the spatial play of José Damasceno’s sculptural intervention into the modernist fabric of Holborn Library.
3 November, 6.30pm | Manual: Choreography and the Everyday
Manual (2013), a live work choreographed by Siobhan Davies and dance artist Helka Kaski, will be followed by a discussion with neurophysiologist Jonathan Cole about the extraordinary complexity of our everyday actions, inviting comparison to the power of visual artists to interrupt our habitual behaviour. Manual draws attention to simple movements, meticulously dismantling their timing and order to encourage us to notice how we orchestrate actions.
10 November, 6.30pm | Paraconsistent Perception
Philosopher and film theorist John Ó Maoilearca will consider the philosophical allusions in José Damasceno’s exploration of scale and perception.
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Suzanne Valadon’s shifting gaze