Annea Lockwood: Energies and Wild Energy

Abstract

Certain artists' works assert and require an understanding of the concepts and material realities of energies, their cognates and associations in individual, group, cultural, historical and ecological situatedness. As epitomised in the title Wild Energy, the collaboration with Bob Bielecki, Annea Lockwood has referred to different energies throughout her career. We will discuss what these might mean and the work that they may do in specific instances. We believe this will not only provide a crucial perspective in analysing Lockwood's work, but also offer Lockwood's work as a whole as a key to grounding larger transformations of energies and the arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.