audio of plant walk, featuring arden
watering indoor plants
Conversations of / with / in the living world
found bodies
My attentiveness became focused on bodies (rubbish) that I was observing while walking.
These non human entities inhabit the curb side / side walk and further evidence the evolutionary nature of our urban interior. I intervened in the process of these bodies going to landfill; collecting and re contextualising them in installations and assemblages in a studio environment. Through techniques of framing and composition I questioned the ontological agency and ecological value of these bodies outside of their human associations. I engaged in a process of research that uncovered the material origin and narrative of these bodies, attaching an a ecological narrative to these bodies.
How can composition and framing in exhibition foster a re evaluation of our relationship with the living world?
Theoretical framework: Object Oriented Ontology / Timothy Morton / Graham Harman / Jane Bennet
bodies one
bodies five
bodies two
bodies six
bodies three
bodies seven
bodies four
bodies in projection
Thing power- gestures towards the strange ability of ordinary, man made items to exceed their status as objects and to manifest traces of independence or aliveness, constituting the outside of our own experience.
Jane Bennet 2010
studio floor plan
(natural light movements)
With no frame or boundary there can be no territory, and without territory there may be objects or things but not qualities that can become expressive, that can intensify and transform living bodies.
Elizabeth Grosz 2008
Interior design as a process of framing situated in the flow of movement where selection and arrangement involve acts of separation as contraction that slow the fugacious exterior down and enable a temporary, provisional consistency – a ‘fabrication of space’; an interiorization in the midst of movement.
Suzie Attwill 2018