Abstract
An installation derived from the examination of a single guitar. Approached as both a cultural icon and a creative process, the guitar comes to be defined as much by its myriad relational connections with the world as by physical design. The project explores how we conceive a physical object, where relations between materiality and imagination conflate and confuse. It is an extended site-specific work reaching into the contrasting modes of understanding that exist within the university, and the ways they might expand our understanding of the guitar. With thanks to: Victoria Alexander, Jo Baker, Cara Ballingall, Jaq Bessell, Eric Brown, Pippa Cleary, Alice Corrigan, Andy Crocombe, Ian Cunningham, Dan Driscoll, David Frohlich, Andrew Goddard, Simon Gordon, Steve Goss, Pat Grayburn, Arthur Komosinski, Alan Haigh, Ian Hamerton, Phil Hancock, Amalie Hannsen, Patch Harvey, Paul Hayden, Malcolm Heggie, David Hockham, Brendan Howlin, Mike Hughes, Nicole Leinweber, Chrissie Ley, Sam Little, Holly Luhning, Anthony Marchant, Milton Mermikides, Stephen Mooney, Tony Myatt, Laura Neale, George Oulton, Judith Peters, Angharad Price, Jeevan Rai, Trevor Rawlins, Helen Raynham, Sub Reddy, Sue Smith, Sarah Terry, Chris Watling, Mark Whiting, Stephen Wood, James Wright, Julie Yoemans.