Session December 2021
What Are Multiples?
Access, Scarcity and Objectness
On Wednesday 1st December we had a great conversation about multiples, why they are made, how they have their own process-rich logic, as well as how they are sometimes an important means of access to other artforms.
To talk about the role of multiples in art we had the amazing guests artist Clovis Blackwell and writer and critic G. James Daichendt; a session coordinated by Guy Kinnear who it was a great pleasure to welcome as a moderator for Dialogues for Artists in a Changing World. We explored many complex interactions including the role of multiples in widening access to artworks, sometimes as the main vehicle for experiencing ephemeral work; how scarcity functions as a sometimes necessary and sometimes artificial value; and how research and process have a very particular, often collective, character in the sphere of multiples. We touched on what multiples are, including the still much used long-standing facets of printmaking, all the way to toys, NFTs and soup cans. And we looked at how values such as access, scarcity and objectness interact in many ways within this sphere of the multiple. Moderated by Elina Cerla.
