Lecture Series WiSe 24/25, Kenzee Patterson

Dienstag, den 19.11.24, 18 Uhr
Hörsaal der Kunsthochschule

Kenzee Patterson / Artist Talk u. Lecture Performance

Kenzee Patterson is visiting Mainz from Australia, following in the reverse direction a path that a pair of millstones from the Osteifel once travelled. This pair of basalt millstones now belong to Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, although they once turned in a watermill from c.1812-1830 on Gadigal Country in the penal colony of New South Wales (NSW)- what is now a state of Australia. Over two centuries, and since becoming museum objects, the provenance of the millstones had been forgotten, until recent archaeological analysis initiated by Kenzee uncovered their likely origin in the ancient basalt quarries of the Eifel. The last volcanic eruptions occurred in the Eifel approximately 12,000 years ago, and basaltic material from this area has been continuously exploited since Neolithic times.

Kenzee Patterson is an artist and a descendant of transported convicts and British and Dutch-Sri Lankan immigrants. He lives and works on the unceded sovereign Country of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Boon Wurrung and Bunurong Peoples, in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Kenzee investigates the parallels between the global movement of objects resulting from trade and colonisation, and the punitive transportation of his own ancestors, speculating on the legacies and inheritances of these corresponding displacements. His art practice combines material experimentation and unorthodox mark-making processes, often reconstituting spent objects into new forms.

Kenzee has generated expansive solo exhibitions for regional galleries, artist-run initiatives (ARIs), and a commercial gallery. His work has also been included in group exhibitions throughout Australia and in overseas cities including Paris, New York, Berlin and Vienna. His work has been curated into significant group exhibitions at regional galleries, university galleries and in touring exhibitions.

Collective and collaborative modes of working are integral to his practice, and he has been the founding director of three influential ARIs: Locksmith Project Space, Sydney (2007-2011); Cosmopolitan Decline, Broken Hill (2018); and in 2021 Kenzee founded the interdisciplinary reading and field trip working-group Magnetic Topographies with artists Clare Britton and Therese Keogh.

Datum / Uhrzeit
19.11.2024 /18.00 Uhr

Ort
Hörsaal, 1. OG Ost, 01-307
Kunsthochschule Mainz
Am Taubertsberg 6,
55122 Mainz

Bildnachweis/Textnachweis
Vortragsreihe WiSe 24/25, Text/Grafik, 2024 © Kunsthochschule Mainz, Robert Meyer,