The title of this residency, Land Strategies, was intended to convey that the landscape of the exhibition space could be articulated through interventions in the space. It is now my task to unpick what I have done over the last two months and see if that has been achieved and what I have learnt from the experience. Now it is nearly over, apart from finishing touches and the closing event on Sunday (5pm), so time to reflect.
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
