Abstract

Jo Melvin's contribution exploring Dennis Oppenheim's strategies of risk in his work was first given as a lecture at the Henry Moore Institute in January 2014 during the exhibition 'Thought Collision Factories'. The published version appears in NOIT–2, guest edited by Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, which considers how burning, an action predominant in Latham's ideas, has been deployed by artists in various ways