ACRG (David Egan – Colour Handling)

Schedule

Sun Jan 28 2024 at 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm

Location

Adult Contemporary | Perth, WA

Please join Adult Contemporary Reading Group for our discussion of David Egan’s ‘Colour Handling’, a collection of essays on colour published by Discipline in 2022.
The book is available to purchase in paperback form for $25.00 (inc. GST) from Adult Contemporary (via DM or email) and should be read in advance of the meeting. Orders placed through ACRG will be taken until Sunday, 7 January with limited copies available in stock thereafter.
ACRG will focus on texts concerning art and culture, including both fiction and non-fiction. The reading group is open to all and meets on the last Sunday of each month (with times and locations subject to possible variation). Suggestions for future texts, either in physical or digital publication formats, are welcome at any time.
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‘Colour Handling’ comprises a series of essays on colour written from a painter’s perspective. Each essay responds to an occurrence of colour in an artist’s work: Jutta Koether’s red paintings; Rosie Isaac’s green mirror; Tony Conrad’s ‘Yellow Movies’; Derek Jarman’s ‘Blue’; and Etel Adnan’s paintings of Mount Tamalpais.
The analysis of these works leans on Georges Didi-Huberman’s notion of the patch, a moment in painting when the coloured matter of paint slips away from the logic of pictorial description and performs in some other, strange way. In grappling with this strangeness, the essays in ‘Colour Handling’ invoke the alien worlds and mechanisms of science-fictionality, making references throughout to writers such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin and Kurt Vonnegut.
https://www.discipline.net.au/david-egan-colour-handling/
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David Egan is an Australian artist who lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Recently, he has had solo shows at Neon Parc (2022), Haydens (2021), Sutton Projects (2019) and Bus Projects (2018), all in Naarm. His book of essays, ‘Colour Handling’, was published by Discipline in 2022.
http://www.david-egan.net/

Where is it happening?

Adult Contemporary, 25 Waugh St, North Perth WA 6006, Australia,Perth, Western Australia

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