Making Matters 3.0

Making Matters is an annual exhibition featuring practice-based/led research from staff members of the School of Art, Architecture and Design. It offers staff with an interdisciplinary background a platform to experiment, showcase and communicate their practice research in progress. Making Matters 3.0 is the third edition of the exhibition.

The relevance of making is an integral part of the research which requires skilled comprehension. The form of 'com-' in Latin means "with, together". Taken in English from the seventeenth century, it is a living prefix meaning "together, mutually, in common". Descendants of 'prehendere' in English include comprehend meaning "to grasp the nature or significance of". Such an etymology highlights the hands-on activity of making and its physicality. In other words, the grasping of ‘stuffness', the properties, actions and decisions, and trajectories of what happens if. Making is an unspoken text, an irreplaceable language that supports and speaks to the creative research processes. Making communicates in ways that language alone cannot.

The exhibition unveils the vulnerability and rawness of the act of making across multiple disciplines.

Making Matters 3.0 showcases research and creativity in, but not exclusive to, sculpture, design, textile, photography, architecture, film, metal, and visual art.

Curator: Simone ten Hompel

Exhibitors

Ektoras Arkomanis

Manuela Barczewski

Kieron Baroutchi

James Cant

Sara Carneholm Mytkowski

Chiara Cola

Karen Coughlan

Ania Dabrowska

Emily Evans

Irina Georges

Johanna Hällsten

Simon Hasan

James Hunting

Samantha Johnston

Harriet McKay

Kaye Newman

Gina Pierce

Simone ten Hompel

Michael Upton

Patrick Ward

Sam Wingate

Heidi Yeo

Image: James Hunting

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Atrium, London Metropolitan University, Aldgate Campus, 16 Goulston Street, London, United Kingdom