Contemporary Artefacts
Workshop series and installation
Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden. 2016
Open School East, London. 2016
Royal College of Art, London. 2016
Workshop series and installation
Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden. 2016
Open School East, London. 2016
Royal College of Art, London. 2016
Hand knapped television-screen glass. 30x10x3cm. 2016
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A workshop in knapping, one of the tool making practices of our neolithic ancestors. Inspired by the story of Flint Jack, a 19th century practical archaeologist. Flint Jack rediscovered the technique of flint knapping and sold his creations to unsuspecting museum curators and collectors all over Britain. The workshop consisted of learning hand knapping, and making arrowheads from empty beer bottles and tv screen glass We also looked at texts that examine the relationship between the development of stone technology and the development of the human psyche.
Held at Open School East |
SLUMP Extract from catalog essay
there’s a story about the british museum in a post-apocalyptic time. in this world, information technologies have collapsed, and the knowledge required to produce once-everyday objects is all but extinct. the learning of an earlier age has vanished, and with it the means for enacting a life off the land. there is only one handbook left in the anarchic flux, the big rooms of holborn stacked with the tools and handiwork of a pre-electrified age. the objects offer diagrams for improvised copies; flint knives out of television screens, ploughs from old radiators, and urns sculpted out of the remains of san pellegrino bottles.
Emil Sheffman
there’s a story about the british museum in a post-apocalyptic time. in this world, information technologies have collapsed, and the knowledge required to produce once-everyday objects is all but extinct. the learning of an earlier age has vanished, and with it the means for enacting a life off the land. there is only one handbook left in the anarchic flux, the big rooms of holborn stacked with the tools and handiwork of a pre-electrified age. the objects offer diagrams for improvised copies; flint knives out of television screens, ploughs from old radiators, and urns sculpted out of the remains of san pellegrino bottles.
Emil Sheffman