Spiderman meets Rosie and Jim! What an alarming scenario. Video tapes knotted to create a turret in a happy day in the studio followed by a couple of hours research in the library. Began Peter Osborne’s book, Anywhere or Not At All, in preparation for his talk at Nottingham Contempory this evening. Lots of these ideas relate to my thesis and looking forward to reading it at length.
Pleased to be selected for the Summer Lodge at NTU next month, think it will be a really productive time.
Through installation, expanded sculpture, photography and film and sometimes pseudo-scientific experiments, I am trying to create a dialogue between space and place using interventions and interruptions as part of a site-specificity that explores in-between spaces, inside and outside, nowhere and somewhere. I use temporary, ephemeral and provisional interruptions, to locate, re-locate and re-contextualise territory referencing what has been, what is or what could be, the past, the present and the future and where it intersects with the human relationship. They often refer to incidental happenings that create a transformation of objects. The notion of absence, as possibility rather than lack, is an underlying theme within the concepts of territory, whether historical, political, geographical, cultural as well as how it is colonized, altered, used and navigated and, relating to this, place and placelessness.Â
