Stephen Feeke Unidentified Museum Objects
As part of the talks and events programme for Claire Barclay Openwide (7 February–12 April 2009), this seminar investigated the nature of making sculptural objects, their references to other functional objects, and their dysfunctional characteristics.
Listen to Stephen Feeke’s paper from the Dysfunctional Objects Seminar
Feeke will focus on a display entitled ‘Unidentified Museum Objects: Curiosities from
the British Museum’, an exhibition which brought together objects from diverse cultures
and periods – linked only by the fact they couldn’t be categorised with any certainty.
Stephen Feeke is a curator at the Henry Moore Institute where he is involved in all aspects of exhibition making
and project management. He has done much to expand the geographical and temporal reach of the Institute’s
programme and has developed a particular interest in the conceptual intersections between
contemporary and historical art. Future projects include an exhibition of Ice Age sculpture and drawings
by the Brazilian architect, Lina Bo Bardi.
