A timeline of Topographies of the Obsolete's activities and events.
KHiB: Clay and Ceramics R&D seminar in London: (After) the storm in a teacup, rethinking and repositioning ceramics in contemporary art education
Visiting Stoke on Trent. Talks with the BCB, resulting in the first invitation to Spode Factory.
September
8-18 Sept. Pilot workshop: Resurrecting the obsolete, at Spode factory site.
October
Presentation at Re:place (KHiB) workshop/seminar, 11-13 October 2012.
The Site is the Question, exhibition/presentation in ROM 8, KHiB, during The Artistic Research Forum autumn 2012, 22-28 Oct.
January
Project blog launch January 2013
Sensuous Knowledge Conference - Ta(l)king Place, Brownsword paper submitted and acceptance confirmed, 23-25 Jan.
March
Funding granted from the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.
KHiB workshop No. 2 at Spode factory site: Topographies of the Obsolete with selected artists, students and members of the artistic research project Re:place
The Site is the Question, exhibition at Airspace Gallery.
Public seminar day, Spode Conversations.
Lecture series by Ezra Shales.
Site anatomy at KHiB starts: Runs until 2015.
April-September
Brownsword/Mydland curates BCB exhibition "Topographies of the Obsolete: Vociferous Void" exhibition and joint conference with the BCB.
August
Workshop No.3: Topographies of the Obsolete
Entropisk Fotografi, Exhibition at Anne Linnemann Studio Gallery, Copenhagen
September
Workshop No.4: Topographies of the Obsolete
Exhibition at British Ceramics Biennial: Topographies of the Obsolete: Vociferous Void
Launch of website topographies.khib.no
Launch of the two first publications: Topographies of the Obsolete: Vociferous Void and Topographies of the Obsolete: Critical Texts
Seminar in Graasten: Topographies of the Obsolete -The Ruin Factory: Brick as Cultural Sign
October
Joint conference with BCB; Between Studio and Factory
Presentation at Artistic Research Forum in Trondheim.
Study group with Topographies and KHiB.
December
Launch of publications in Rom8, Bergen.
February
Exhibition: When You Get to the End there’s Always the Brick in Rom8, Bergen.
Exhibition: Riddled With Defects and Tiny Fractures at Galleri Fisk, Bergen.
Exhibition: Topographies of Colour in Rom8, Bergen.
April
Touching the Tactile, seminar by The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts at Medical Museion 10-11th of April.
Exhibition: Work Study - Part 2 at Rom8, Bergen.
Exhibition: Divided Labour at Shrewsbury Museumand Art Gallery, Shrewsbury.
Exhibition: The Broadcaster, Lincolnshire.
May
Site as Raw Material, seminar at University of Sunderland.
Seminar at Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan.
June
Workshop No.5: Topographies of the Obsolete
Spode Conversations 2, a seminar held at Spode original factory site.
September
OpenCity:Walking as art practice/research process, seminar at Nottingham University, Nottinghamshire.
Ruin Archive Archive Ruin, seminar in Bergen.
Exhibition: Work Study at Cinema B-Open, Bergen.
Re-activating Displaced Heritage, seminar in Dublin.
November
Exhibition: Transformator at Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal.
Material Memory, seminar in Newcastle.
Ceramics and Politics, seminar at Holbourne Museum, Bath.
February
Exhibition: Returns at Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent.
Site as Author, conference at Nottingham.
March
Funding for phase 2 granted by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.
Seminar by Nottingham Trent University.
April
Brownsword & Mydland visits partner institutions (Nottingham Trent).
May
Exhibition: National Treasure at the 8th Gyeonggi InternationalCeramic Biennale, Korea.
September
Exhibition: Re-Apprenticed in Stoke-on-Trent.
October
Seminar by Sheffield Hallam University in October 2015.
Presentation at Artistic research forum, Kristiansand.
November
Topographies of the Obsolete's conference at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford.
Launch of publication 2: Site Reflections.
Think Tank 1 at the Minton Library, Stoke-on-Trent.