In September 2001, the artist Simon Morris and the psychoanalyst Dr. Howard Britton decided to exchange information on their respective disciplines. Alternating on a weekly basis, one would visit the other and deliver a lecture on a subject from their own discipline. The lectures were filmed with both the 'teacher' and the 'student' being recorded. The lectures took place in their domestic spaces and were intermittently interrupted by cats, dogs, small children, telephone calls and aeroplanes passing overhead. In December 2001, Simon Morris gave an introductory lecture on Paul McCarthy's work. A few days before Christmas they went to view a Paul McCarthy exhibit at The Tate Gallery in Liverpool. In January 2002 Dr. Howard Britton gave a lecture on the work of Jacques Lacan, using Paul McCarthy's piece, 'Bossy Burger' to illustrate Lacan's three registers; the real, the symbolic and the imaginary. The domestic lectures will be presented here in public for the first time. Lecture notes that were during the recording of each lecture will be made freely available to spectators.
HOW TO LOCATE
dual screening & distribution of complimentary lecture notes will be held on two consecutive days, JULY 21, AND JULY 22, 6PM at the Manifesta 4 Tresspassing Space. (No Manifesta ticket required)
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Adresse / Adress: Trespassing Space,
Frankensteiner Hof, Große Rittergasse 103,
Phone: +49/69/60 60 88 71
Email: trespassing@manifesta.de
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Simon Morris is an artist and lecturer. His critical practice examines identity, spatial relations and methods of interpretation. His investigations have been manifested in exhibitions, publications, lectures, interviews and websites. As well as being a practising artist, he is also a committed art educator. He concurs with the late Joseph Beuys that teaching is the greatest work of art. Morris has attempted to view all of his work as a critical practice, that does not valorise one kind of work over another, but sees the activities as indissociable and continuous.
Dr. Howard Britton is a psychoanalyst and a teacher.
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