1. So, You Want To Live In A Vacuum?
Gray’s School Of Art / 2022
So, You Want To Live In A Vacuum?
So, You Want To Live In A Vacuum is a site specific installation comprised of mixed media paintings, sculpture and plants. The installation was a durational piece, the plants were grown by the artist from seed in February 2022 before being planted out into the installation in April as part of the Stage 3 Contemporary Art Practice Pre-Dregree Show.
Contemporary ideology is becoming increasingly polarised as the consequences of humans living separately from the elemental whole are literally blowing everything apart. Repeated exposure to algorithmic manipulation, brought about by information hungry Cyber Beings subsisting on a screen-based diet, has given us acute engagement with anything at the expense of clear-headedness. Predictably, everybody has too much to say about not very much at all as opinions become identities, lifestyles and products.
Doing nothing becomes action.
The work is infected with gut feeling, happening spontaneously in climactic bursts of emotion. It is the embodiment of a very loud and never ending internal monologue. Exploring circularity by using found materials, and annihilation by sabotaging former artworks to create new ones. Aware of the underrepresentation of the nonhuman and finding humour in the cruel intentions of mass society, a restless voice makes observations by putting things next to each other that people often do not see together.
Searching for the fugitive feeling of connection with living while trying to make sense of the weird conventional norms of human beings. A fascination with the absurd forces subversion of the expectations of meaning and commodity through immersion in a playful and kinetic life where there is space for all beings.
