Visiting the inanimate: Practising and evolving collaborative strategies with the everyday object.
Current research examples – ‘Actions of intended use’
I hold you. At a distance. With both hands.
Holding you right. I draw you close to me. Your teeth bared.
It’s something we can do. Together. Intended.I wonder how it feels
to be held by me. My hands imprinting on soft skin. I fold over
the experience. Turning it inside out. A map of sensation.Â
Visiting the inanimate – past sculptural enquiries
Aggregate rock belaying image of foot (out of shot) with rope in figure of 8 climber’s knot – Metacrush (Master’s, 2015) Copper wire with non/human dust from the studio floor – Where space is granular, time does not exist and things are nowhere (Lifeboat, 2016) Mineral pushing found metal rusted object lifting floor tile – Where space is granular, time does not exist and things are nowhere (Lifeboat, 2016)
From documented performative processes (and collaboration) – past explorations
A Doorway to Multiplicity (Anomalies in the flux of normal things, 2018) Dani falling, sleeping, waking – The Sleep Collection (Islington Mill Residency, 2012) Microwaveable Moments (Method Lab Commission, 2006)