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Dr. Jo Melvin on Barry Flanagan: Pataphysics and Play

On the occasion of the exhibition, Barry Flanagan: Pataphysics and Play, Dr. Jo Melvin discusses Flanagan’s Chess Set (1971), a work central to the presentation, and expounds on the tenets of 'pataphysics which were so central to Flanagan’s oeuvre. Including never-before-seen work from the artist’s estate, the presentation focuses on the importance of the imaginary realm in both the tenets of play and the philosophy of ’pataphysics as coined by the French writer Alfred Jarry. Absurdity, Flanagan proposes, is equally as justifiable as profundity. Jo Melvin is Professor in Fine Art and Feminisms at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London and Director and Curator of the Barry Flanagan Estate. Recent projects include Process Method and Myth, Palexpo art gèneve, 2023, Imaginary Solutions Barry Flanagan, Max Hetzler Galerie, Berlin, Thoughts that smell like memories, Handel Street Projects, London, The Feuilleton I will bear witness: Piggy-backing from the Edicola, Spoleto, Umbria and MACRO, Roma, Italy 2021, ‘Imagine Being Here Now’ with Lucy R. Lippard and Askeaton Contemporary, (2021). Publications include: ‘I have the solution for the planet’ with Anne James Chaton, Daisy Press, Paris, (2022) ‘Aesthetics of Silence’, Picturing the Invisible, UCL (2022) and Sophie Bouvier-Ausländer ‘An Archaeology of the Future’ Lausanne and London, (2021). Filmography: Zack Shorrosh