SCHMUCK HALLE Lecture Series

matt lambert: A Discipline Is Not My Daddy

matt lambert: Loaded Keep Hitting Our Jaws. 2018. dimensions variable. Collaboration with Maret Anne Sara. Photo: Maret Anne Sara
matt lambert: Hold on Dear One – Dead as Disco Series. 2023. (non/semi/super)-precious metals, stones, beads, bits & bobs, the vending machine prize from a first date, birthday grab bags never taken, gifts from a drag queen, epoxy. 20 x 17 x 36 cm. Photo: matt lambert
matt lambert: Temporal drag only accepting gaudy currency saving for kitsch omega and sugar free nirvana. 2017. 45 objects installed at IASPIS Konstnärsnämnden. Photo: matt lambert
matt lambert: Your Chest Should Be Hard Enough to Support the Head of Someone in Pain and Soft enough to Care. 2018. Digital image and documentation of performance of material in Fun & Games at The Sculpture Center, dimensions variable. Photo: Jacob Koestler

An internationally renowned emerging polydisciplinamorous artist, matt lambert will be in dialogue with Prof. Yuka Oyama as they meet on a shoal. Animating lambert’s method of cruising with no formal beginning or ending the conversation will pull on a few threads of lambert’s seemingly chaotic and rapidly moving practice. Through short readings, images, video and conversation, a possible cartography of practice can emerge. The work becomes material to make the work. Connecting but not limited to: dutch still life, disco balls, saliva, the life philosophy of not saying “no”, Whitney Huston, Greek mythology, Rolls Royce’s, bondage gear, lasers, Steel Titans, Duchamp, American sports law, rug restoration, military medical equipment and a guy named Mick who sold it to them after each driving 3 hours to meet in a McDonald’s parking lot.  

“Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.”   Jok Church

 

bio_ matt lambert’s practice is based in ‘polydisciplinamory’, entangling making, writing, performing, curating, and collaborating, decentering disciplinary specificity. lambert approaches craft as something to look with to see land, labor, extraction, power, use, waste and abuse. Using a method of cruising which lambert developed in their PhD research, the allowance for desire of marginalized
bodies becomes central within institutions. Claiming joy and pleasure as crucial to build more inclusive systems for existence.

lambert is currently a PhD candidate at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design, Stockholm (SE). They hold an MA in Critical and Historical Craft Theory from Warren Wilson College (US) an MFA from Cranbrook (US) as well as degrees in psychology and cultural studies. They exhibit work internationally and are in the permanent collections of The MAD Museum (US), The Huston MFA (US) The Havgapet Collection (NO) and Homografiska (SE). lambert was a curatorial fellow at Center for Craft (US) and a research fellow at Australia National University. They have actively contributed writing to numerous international publications.