The Meadows Division of Art presents a virtual lecture, “Pattern, Material, and Myth,” with artist Surabhi Ghosh. Patterns don’t tell us what will happen; they tell us what could happen if certain conditions are met. Starting from this alternate frame—pattern as potentiality—and drawing on her work with textile-based installations, Surabhi Ghosh argues that patterning should be conceived of as an agile “way of knowing.” Triangulating between multiple conceptualizations—pattern as language, pattern as tensility, pattern as activity—in this lecture Ghosh discusses pattern as a pliable material whose structures can be studied, learned, interpreted and put to use. By identifying the opposing concepts often invoked to either legitimize or devalue pattern—concrete and abstract, functional and ornamental, rational and ridiculous—Ghosh shares the many ways she uses patterning to critically redefine these binaries as points along a complex spectrum of cultural and political expression
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