The Porous Studio took place at PSi #19 at Stanford
and included several interesting presentations, starting with a film by Anne
Robinson and a discussion about it. We also heard (and participated in) presentations by Ray
Langenbach, Angel Viator Smith, Jenni Kokkomäki, Annette Arlander and Johanna Householder
(the following day). Two "local" artists-researchers, Beth Grossman
and Pamela Davis Kivelson from Stanford presented their work as well. The
atmosphere was relaxed and supportive, as always, and the contributions from
the US participants were much appreciated. You can watch a video of a
brief documentation of one of the participatory presentations on vimeo https://vimeo.com/69953101
And here is the brief report our new chair Johanna
Householder gave at the General Assembly of PSi at the end of the conference:
This year at Stanford, and for the previous two
conferences the Artist Committee conducted the Porous Studio as a site, a
location and a format that recognizes and enables the processes of practice as
a place and time for the production of research, theoretical inquiry and making
parallel to the panel format. Porousness also indicates the possibility of
connecting with artists local to the conference, and their contributions along
with the ongoing inquiries of Committee members has made this a rich and
productive process.
The Artists Committee / Porous Studio is grateful to
the organizers of the Utrecht, Leeds and the Stanford conferences, and the
board and members of PSi for supporting this mode of inquiry. We hope to
continue The Studio in Shanghai next year.
One other thing to report is that in anticipation of
the shift in board structure - the Artists Committee has decided to
reconstitute itself as a Working Group, which we have titled: The Artistic
Research Working Group.
Finally, I would like to sincerely thank Ray
Langenbach for his fearless leadership of the Committee for the past few years
and for his own investment in Porous Studio.
