Studies for Making and Unmaking
Shown Here: Video stills from 15' loop
Through collaborative actions, Studies for Making and Unmaking works to collapse boundaries between selves as a way to generate transdisciplinary and interspecies futures. Together we wish to follow philosopher Michel Serres’ call to gather our limbs and disciplines and practices together and make meaning that can come to bear on social and ecological emergence(y).
Over the past decade we have collaborated on arts based research and experimental knowledge practices, including collective workshops, place-responsive installations, and scholarly publications. Through these varied actions we have developed a collaborative, unfixed lexicon depicting our struggles as artists to bring attention to the overlooked and unrecognized through focusing on interdependence, justice, agency and everyday ecologies.
Our artworks bring together digital and analogue images, installation, projections and performances. We remediate an array of forms into a lexicon to reflect our open-ended experiments and refuse linear histories. In each series our lexicon grows, charting a new encounter of the unexpected: An interface generated between forms, gestures, people, and more than human worlds. The unidentifiable becomes newly legible to create stories that collapse hierarchies and notions of progress that underlie dominant systems. Agency is disbursed. New pathways and timescales are formed, curved and pulled by gusting winds, the squeak of technological breakdown, and the distortion of projections on paper.