The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity

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The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity is an exhibition which seeks to reframe printmaking as a site of interdisciplinarity - a testing ground for ‘The important work…done at the surfaces between adjacent disciplines’ (Carter, 1998). Acknowledging interdisciplinarity as a potential site of ambivalence, tension or a fertile ground for exploration and experimentation, this exhibition asked artists to respond to this provocation via an International open call. Motivated by IMPACT 12’s theme ‘Merging and Metamorphosis’ the exhibition aims to trace the metamorphosis of conversations between disciplines, work and within the exhibition space. Installed at the former police station in Bristol, the Island Venue hosts a hybrid exhibition including works of differing materials, scale and dimensions across installation, sculpture, sound, moving image, digital and post-digital media.  Curated by two Cambridge School of Art, MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking students, Sarah Strachan and Ayeshah Zolghadr, the liminal nature of the space has also prompted collaborative and site-responsive works. While Sarah transitions into print from sculpture and ceramics, Ayeshah translates an architectural background into print and back again. Both continue to investigate the spaces in between 2D and 3D – as artists and curators,

Adjacent to the physical exhibition, an online companion space will share an extended range of works. Social media platforms will be used to promote the exhibition and artists, hosting a series of informal artist talks. A digital catalogue, introduced by Dr Véronique Chance, will mark the exhibition and encourage an ongoing conversation.