The seventh of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read a selection of texts to get to grips with the work of Park McArthur. We read a 2015 essay from Afterall by Andrew Blackley called ‘Geometry, Material, Scale’, an interview with McArthur from Bomb magazine, one McArthur’s own texts about care, and, in order to make sense of McCarthur’s conceptual art inheritence, we read the 2010 preface to an edition of Lucy Lippards book, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. We talk about sculpture in relation to care, the meaning of the art object when an artwork also has a conceptual and critical component, and what it means to think about the positionality of the artist, without reducing art to an expression of identity.
Below are the texts we looked at for this podcast, with links to download a PDF of each text.
Blackley, Andrew. ‘Park McArthur: Geometry, Material, Scale’. Afterall, 2015. Download PDF.
BOMB Magazine. ‘BOMB Magazine | Park McArthur Interviewed’, 19 February 2014. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/park-mcarthur/. Download PDF.
Lippard, Lucy. ‘Preface’, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. London: University of California Press, 2010. Download PDF.
MacArthur, Park. ‘Sort of Like a Hug: Notes on Collectivity, Conviviality and Care’. The Happy Hypocrite, no. 7 (2014): 48–60. Download PDF.