PADA Studios Residency, Portugal, Jan 2025
Exhibition view of “Power struggles on Spaceship Earth”, part of the end of residency group show: How to Break a Cistem - curated by Renia Del Mar.
In this residency, I worked with the present natural elements - wind, rain, fire and gravity, waste/found materials within a post-industrial landscape - of ruins of old factories, contaminated land and reclaimed/repurposed land.
The three installations: “Power struggles on Spaceship Earth”, “The word for world is forest, borrowing LeGuin’s words.” and “Nest” offer three portals into worlding beyond anthropocentricity and anxious and unsustainable production systems. Activated by people and/or non-human beings.
"Off the hook" is an assemblage, it comes into a timespace just after those three works. Materials collected from a post-industrial landscapes assembled after dusting off through a timely encounter to work with rain runoff.