Exhibited at EMPAC, this work explores the ambiguities of the toxic sublime across sensory registers, including microplastics in local water caputred in polarized microscopy footage.
Filed under: Installation, Olfactory, Late Industrialisms, Sensory, Video, Geophagy, Art-Science Collaboration, Plastics
Structured as an “AnArchive,” this work focuses on the collapse(s) of material categories in the Anthropocene and the boundaries between nature/human.
A 360o panoramic film sited at gravel heaps and industrial ruins served as the backdrop to an immersive“sensorium” installation considering anthro-geology.
Short film combining re-enactments of first century polymath Hildegard of Bingen’s medicinal recipes with my father’s home movies of geologic sites and ruins he visited in the 1990s.
Futility is at the heart of ecological crisis. Consuming earth directly is an attempt to reconcile the irreconcible scales of late industrialisms.
