It is me Lou the Pants Blogger making a posting to kick off a discussion about the Boston paper. Ideas so far include exploring collaboration between artists and academics incl. the blurring of roles and how the work has fed into our individual practices - am I right in thinking this? Do we need to revisit the stuff in the abstract if this has been submitted (as abstract text block may already have been sent to print). So here we go:

How do objects get transformed by narratives and how do they become divested of narratives? This presentation will interrogate what we call ‘the systems around the object’ drawing on a year-long research project, funded by the Arts Council UK, involving 2 artists and 2 researchers, and a collection of artefacts for schools in Leeds. It aims to develop theory around how objects can sit within systems, stories and places. Drawing on auto-ethnographic discussion about the relationship between artefacts and their context, this paper seeks to uncover and unsettle this relationship. In particular it will ask the following questions:How do objects move in meaning, or move from function to meaning?Does it matter if an object has no provenance?What happens if there is a narrative and no object (the case of the disappearing object)Are objects merely taking their menaing from their form and function or do they acquire new identities as new resonsances and echoes take hold of them?

what the hell does this mean again?

Lou