Portable Sculpture: Fold up, pack down or made on the move sculpture

Portable sculpture is surely as old as the first vessels for eating and the earliest tools carried by peoples across millennia. These talks cast a retrospective glimpse at a few precedents before focusing in particular on representations of currency as a sculptural form and its distribution in contemporary practice.

Dr Jo Melvin explores various strategic approaches to portable sculpture, focussing in particular on her recent curatorial project 'The Feuilleton: I will bear witness: Piggy-backing-from the Edicola' held in Spoleto, and MACRO, Rome during summer 2021.

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Afterwards, Melvin and O'Dowd discussed Melvin's recent online lecture in which Melvin explores various strategic approaches to portable sculpture, focussing in particular on Melvin's recent curatorial project 'The Feuilleton: I will bear witness: Piggy-backing-from the Edicola' held in Spoleto, and MACRO, Rome during summer 2021.