Jes Fernie (right) will be talking about the Archive of Destruction with artist Sam Durant (left) on 26 April 2023 at Art Exchange, University of Essex.
Large-scale drawings from Durant’s ‘Iconoclasm’ series have been installed around the labyrinthine University of Essex campus. Based on TV and newspaper images, they depict acts of destruction enacted on public monuments and statues.
The story of Durant’s ‘Scaffold’ sculpture is written up in the Archive of Destruction. It’s a pretty compelling read, involving a huge international outcry, a ceremonial burning, and the eventual transferral of the intellectual property rights of the work to the Dakota people.
Join on Zoom if you can’t make it to the Essex Unviersity campus.