The Magma Group Symposium at Arthouse1 Gallery 12th December 2017
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Date: 11/01/2018

Symposium to accompany the exhibition "Massaging the Message" by The Magma Group at Arthouse1 Gallery, London.
Guest speakers included Anna McNay, Michael Archer and Michael Glover. The symposium and exhibition sought to examine to what extent Marshall McLuhan’s well known phrase ‘The Medium is The Message’ applies to fine art. 
McLuhan says ‘All media work over us completely. They are so pervasive…that they leave no part of us untouched,,,The medium is the massage’. McNay feels this re definition or pun on McLuhan’s original phrase is highly appropriate when applied to fine art. She further expounds ‘the word ‘magma’ comes from the Greek ‘massein’ meaning ‘to knead’. She says, ‘[The Magma Group] …knead and massage their materials until the message appears’.