The Cultural Devolution

Mulholland, Neil

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“…Addressing the typical practices of Scottish neo-conceptualism of the early 1990s, Neil Mulholland identified 'a commitment to the detournement of material culture' and 'a concurrent preoccupation with functionalist architecture and design' as common points of departure. 54 Alongside that of her fellow students, including Nathan Coley and Simon Starling, Kaur's work may be regarded as demonstrative of a wider trend in sculptural practice in which 'a pervasive refusal of hierarchies of material or format' resulted in discursive, non-monumental works of art. 55 If Kaur's interest in 'making' was at odds with the concerns of her art school contemporaries, whose work with found materials were more easily consolidated into a 'Scotia Nostra' narrative, it nonetheless enabled her to elide modernist concerns with critical postmodernism.…”

Section: The Other Scottish Miraclementioning

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Permindar Kaur: Locating a ‘Black’ Artist in Narratives of British Art in the 1990s

Correia¹

2021

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Speaking at a conference in October 2016, Permindar Kaur asked, ‘Am I a Black artist?’ To be regarded as a ‘Black artist’ or not to be: what are the consequences for the trajectory of an artist's career; our understanding of the aesthetic affects of that artist's work; and their historicization within narratives of British art? This essay argues that the question of Kaur's ‘Blackness’, whether self‐defined or perceived by others, has had significant implications for the ways in which her artworks have been interpreted and historicized. Following Stuart Hall's essay ‘Black Diaspora Artists in Britain: Three “Moments” in Post‐War History’, this essay examines specific moments – artworks and their display – in Permindar Kaur's career, and their ‘periodization’ – interpretation and positioning – within a wider curatorial and art‐historical narration of the Black anti‐racist art agenda of the 1980s, and the Cool Britannia multiculturalism and nationalist Scottish Miracle narratives of the 1990s. Presenting Kaur as a case study, this essay provides insight into the challenges of narration faced by artists of colour.

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Section: The Other Scottish Miraclementioning

confidence: 99%

Permindar Kaur: Locating a ‘Black’ Artist in Narratives of British Art in the 1990s

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The Cultural Devolution

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