INDUSTRY:
Art & Design
PROJECT:
Furies Collective Show
YEAR:
2024
EXPERIENCE:
Multi-media art installation.
Multimedia art installation
Overview.
As part of art of an art show with the Furies Collective, I created a participatory installation on reflecting on marine ecology and our relationship to it.
Three separate pieces of work were combined amongst a space flooded in cold and purple lights, strewn with discarded scrap metals - a hanging sculptural piece, 'I Float, For As Long As I Can', an then two films shown on old VCR screens, 'Tendrils', and 'Here Lie Our Bodily Relics'.

Concept.
The overall art installation was to reflect on our individual, collective and future responsibilities towards the earth.
'I Float, For As Long As I Can': In the UK, seaweed floating in the ocean belongs to no-one till it is touched by land. Within this work, by growing the pile, the land threatens the freedom of the seaweed-inspired structure. This creates an embodied understanding of the power dynamics we wield, our actions and their consequences. The question left hanging is, how might we facilitate the protection, repair and care of those suffering at the hands of the human?
'Tendrils' is an experimental abstract film that holds space between imagination and reality, shown as a two-channel video installation. Through spoken word and sensory, discordant visuals, the work explores bodies imagined otherwise through seaweed. 'Here Lie Our Bodily Relics', muses on a post-human future of fossilised ocean relics.




