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MATERIAL CONJECTURES

PUBLICATIONS, WRITING & PRESS

Future

2018 
Sep   Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London
Publication: Provisional Conditions

- have been invited to contribute a chapter ‘S.H.E.L.T.E.R.’, converted from our presentation to the
publication Provisional Conditions

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Past

2016

Apr   WORK Black Dog Publishing, London
Publication: Beaconsfield Chronic Epoch

- chapter about Material Conjectures within the book that recorded Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall’s
history
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2015

Jan – Feb   Sonce Alexander Gallery, LA
Catalogue: After Living in the Room of the Realities Nouvelles

- wrote an introductory essay and a chapter ‘Pabodie’s Glossary’ for the accompanying catalogue to
the exhibition of the same name
2013
Pub May Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall London
Publication: Asymmetrical Cinema *reviewed in Aesthetica magazine

- edited and launched a publication in parallel to the show of the same name exhibition and publication
2009
Jun     53rd Venice Biennale: St. George’s Anglican Church, Venice; SIAD gallery, Sheffield; the gallery at wimbledon, London
Touring exhibition and publication, Project Biennale published by Another Space

- both Dale Holmes and Kirsten Cooke had chapters within the publication
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SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES AND PAPERS

Past

2016

Nov   

Beaconsfield, London and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

 Symposium: Housing, Immigration and Temporary Fabrications: Abandoned Facilities and Housing 
 Immigration co-organised by Material Conjectures and Andrea Delaplace

 - looked into the complex and contradictory political and material relationships between centres
 
  built for crisis and museums constructed as sites to stage the voices of immigrants
 - MC introduced our strand with the performative presentation, ‘T.E.N.T.S.’ (a fictional global  corporation)

 - MC’s strand invited the speakers: Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Jonathan Darling

Pub Apr  

WORK: Black Dog Publishing, London
Panel Discussion: Beaconsfield Chronic Epoch 
          
 - chaired a panel discussion, which included the participants: David Crawforth, Margaret Garlake,
    Naomi Siderfin, Julian Stallabrass and Thomas Yeomans

-  this launched the book Beaconsfield Chronic Epoc’, in which MC’s exhibition practice is  documented

2014
Dec  

Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London

Symposium: Kwartz Kapital Konstruction Kollider

 - included a performance by MC and papers from Bridget Crone, Pil & Galia Kollectiv and Matthew Poole

Aug  

Sonce Alexander Gallery, LA
Performance for the exhibition: Arrive and Likewise Depart

 - designed and choreographed a stage, image presentation and performance entitled Dark Priest
    that was performed by Hollywood actor Jay Grant for the opening event and the structure
    remained for the span of the exhibition 

2013 

Feb              

 

Limehouse Town Hall in collaboration with Goldsmiths University
Symposium: The Matter of Contradiction: War Against the Sun

-  delivered the paper, ‘An Introduction to Material Conjectures’

2012
Apr  

kynastonmcshine, The Old Police Station, London
Event: Turbulent Surfaces II

 - invited the speakers Jasper Joseph-Lester and Maxa Zoller to produce provocations, within the
    interrogation room of The Old Police Station, in response to the screenings of films by Bernadette
    Corporation and Renzo Martens