The Performance of Colour: Material, Time, Language
Abstract
This practice-led thesis considers what it is to imagine colour
at the limits of language as art practice. The
main project of this research,
The Vivisector Oracle: A Colour System for the Discovery of Truth
for Artists and Others
in Times of Uncertainty
(2013-ongoing) began as a list of all the colours in Patrick
White’s novel
The Vivisector
and expanded into a work with several iterations: a set of
collages using paint swatches, installation, objects,
and a series of one-on-one performances. I also produced a
significant body of
drawings which together
propose that the relationship between colour, time and space
allow a view of colour as performative.
Through my consistently speculative studio processes I have aimed
to conduct research that is both material
and philosophical into the meanings of colour. This thesis’
contribution to contemporary visual practice is an
expanded idea of colour as performative, and as a way of thinking
that includes language and systems but
simultaneously reaches beyond them.
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