In the conference, titled \u2019The Authority of the Object\u2019 the artist will talk about how the intertwinement of psychoanalysis with her life influenced her personal as well as her artistic identity. In the workshop titled: The Authority of the Object\/ Conceptual Sculpture Workshop\u2019 participants will be asked to create their own sculptural composition under the supervision of the artist. We hope to come together in this event that brings together Psychoanalysis and art.<\/p>\n
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CONFERENCE: THE AUTHORITY OF THE OBJECT<\/p>\n
I will speak about my recent works with objects. These works I made during a two-year artist\u2019s residency at the famous London school \u2013 Harrow, which, along with Eton, is one of the feeder school for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Being in an educational seIIng, tapped into my ambivalent relationship to authority, which is a complicated mixture of \u2018awe\u2019 and \u2018rebellion\u2019. I wanted to work within these limitations and so I made use of what was \u2018there\u2019 and not what I wanted \u2018there\u2019 to be. Operating rather like rather like Alice in Wonderland, I allowed the objects I found to \u2018speak\u2019 to me in their status as pseudo instructors. In this paper, I contrast this idea with Freud\u2019s theory of the \u2018Thing\u2019 and how we are affected by the image of the object on a pre-conscious and an unconscious level. One example is a work called OBJECT CONVERSATION, SIT, STAND, EAT. This installation seems to offer instructions to the viewer: The three chairs with their inscriptions seem to call one over and to at least take up the first offer \u2013 to SIT. It reads as an instruction and this instruction is taken on through the image of the chair. It is of course also a description \u2013 a description of the function of the chair \u2013 a form on which to sit but also a description of who we are \u2013(in the eyes of another species perhaps- as we sit, stand or eat).<\/p>\n
Jane McAdam Freud<\/p>\n
THE AUTHORITY OF THE OBJECT\/CONCEPTUAL SCULPTURE WORKSHOP<\/p>\n
With objects we will provide, you will be asked to make a sculptural composition. Implementing a method to compose the sculptures you may choose to hang or balance selected objects, frame objects or line them up. Works will then be examined and a title found.<\/p>\n
Jane McAdam Freud<\/p>\n
JANE McADAM FREUD past winner of the European Trebbia Awards for achievement in the arts, is represented in the major public collections at home and abroad including the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.<\/p>\n
A prolific artist with 44 solo exhibitions McAdam Freud studied at the Royal College of Art, London (RCA) under the supervision of John Stetzeker the conceptual artist and Edwardo Paolozzi the sculptor, both of whom have had an influence on her work. She won a Scholarship to study sculpture in Rome winning the annual student prize. Jane has taught courses at the major London art school including the RCA, the University of the Arts, London and at the Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp, Belgium. She has published several papers on her works, which focus on family history and are informed by psychoanalytic theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are very happy to be hosting Sigmund Freud\u2019s granddaughter, world-renowned painter Lucian Freud\u2019s daughter, a great artist herself Jane McAdam Freud in Istanbul. This encounter with the artist will consist of a conference and a workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100006081,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[153],"class_list":["post-100006723","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-psychoanalysis-and-the-artist","cat_psychoanalysis-and-the-artist"],"yoast_head":"\n