immediations launches its 2016 issue with articles on the politics of digital surveillance in contemporary art (Jess Robertson), relief sculpture in the Italian Renaissance studiolo (Michele Collier), André Breton’s metaphorics of minerals and alchemy (Will Atkin) and Egon Schiele’s nudes in the context of the intellectual culture of early-twentieth-century Vienna (Olivia Ghosh), alongside an exhibition and book reviews by Imogen Tedbury, Kate Pleydell, Isabella Boorman, Nicola Jennings, Wiktor Komorowski, Hongmiao Shi, Camilla Pietrabissa and Mattew Cheale.
Authors Will Atkin and Jess Robertson will deliver papers and discuss their contributions to the issue. Turner Prize winner and Courtauld alumnus Jeremy Deller has designed the 2016 cover. Bringing together William Moriss’s leaf patterns and Andy Warhol’s camouflage designs via the aesthetics of 1990s rave culture, the work explores how ideas of nature have been historically constructed in relation to socialism, consumerism, militarism and protest movements. Co-editor-in-chief Edwin Coomasaru will discuss the content and context of Deller’s work for immediations 2016.
Chaired by co-editor-in-chief, Thomas Hughes.