Location
Art Gallery of South AustraliaStart date
2018-03-03End date
2018-06-03Language
engNotes
The 2018 Adelaide Biennale was curated by Erica GreenResearch statement
Patrick Pound is an artist and academic rethinking ideas of curation and collection. He has worked with many Public Gallery and Museum collections, alongside his ever-growing collection-based artworks, rethinking how things might be found and made to hold ideas. Pound's research is increasingly focused on public gallery and museum exhibitions that rethink collection and display models and unpack how things might be found to hold and express ideas differently in gallery and museum contexts. The research and creative practice entail positioning the collection as a medium. This research also investigates new methods of interconnecting collection works using internet search methods as an organizing system for finding, ordering and displaying collections as artworks. Pound's practice-led research asks questions of our understandings of sorting and storing and searching information in the internet age, pressing us to rethink museum models of collection and display. In 2018 'The Point of Everything' was installed at the Art Gallery of South Australia as a keynote Adelaide Biennale project. Combining hundreds of museum works with his own collections of 'point' related objects Pound put to the test how collections of museum artworks and objects might be found and made to hold ideas differently as if on a dare. The exhibition featured hundreds of objects and artworks, which tested how a thing might variously hold an idea of the point or pointing, from a pointillist painting to a drypoint etching, from a dot point to a spear point, pressing the visitors to test their wits against this peculiar collection constraint that had been imposed on these objects. The exhibition was effectively a temporary 'Museum of Pointing'. The installation was a vast puzzle that had been solved for the public. They were left to test their wits against the collection.Publication classification
JC3 Curated Exhibition or Event – FestivalScale
NTRO MajorEvent
The Point of Everything. Exhibition (2018 : Adelaide, South Australia)Publisher
Art Gallery of South Australia
