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Painting and Materiality: Folding Painting out into the World AllysonKeehan Glasgow School of Art

FOLDING AS ACTION PROSTHESIS AS ACTION PAINTING AS ACTION TENSION AS SURFACE ARMATURE AS ACTION ITERATION AS ACTION CHAOS AS ENABLER PAINTING AS PERFORMATIVE POROUS AS PARAMETER MOVEMENT AS STRUCTURE ENCOUNTER AS PERFORMANCE MATERIALITY AS REDUCTION DETERRITORIALIZATION AS METHOD ACTION AS AGENCY PAINTING AS BECOMING

AllysonKeehan Drape Exposed with Black Satin in Blue Light, Oil on Linen, 70x40cm, 2015

‘artwork is not a description of an object at rest. On the contrary, artwork is the work- the action.’ Benjamin, A. Object: Painting 1994pg7

AllysonKeehan Black Satin in Blue Light Minimal Canvas, 140 150cm, Oil on Linen, 2014

Armature as action: stabilizer Folding as action: ingestion Folding as action: ejection Prosthesis as action: enabler Painting as action: performance Painting as becoming

Armature as action: stabilizer

AllysonKeehanUntitled 2016. Linen and wood, dimensions variable

Folding as action: ingestion

• Deleuze, G. (1989) Cinema 1, the Movement Image ,Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Deleuze, G. (1989) Cinema 1, the Movement Image ,Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. • Grosz, E. (2001) Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space , Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

AllysonKeehanUntitled 2016 Teak and canvas 60x50cm

Painting as Action:Expansion

AllysonKeehanWork in progress 2016. Linen, string and wood.

Prosthesis as action: enabler

• Grosz, E. (2005) Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power , Australia: Allan &Unwin.

AllysonKeehanUntitled 2016. Wood, canvas, table. Dimensions variable

Painting as action: performance

Painting as becoming

AllysonKeehanWork in progress 2016. Red Oak 60x50cm