MacGhillie
> Knowbotic Research 2009 – 2012 Courtesy of the artists. Urban sites are visited by a figure, dressed in a camouflage suit. The figure shows neither the traits of an individual, nor a person. The so-called Ghillie Suit was originally invented in the 19th century for hunting. It was later also used during the First […]
Liminality / Liminoid
> Snow Yunxue Fu 2020 Courtesy of the artist. Working primarily with 3D software, Fu creates scenes of experimental abstraction that translate the concept of liminality into the digital experience. The word liminal is often used to discuss the sublime within digital space and the VR experience, conjuring up notions of time, space, and perception, […]
I Am _Your_ Pyrate Dancer
> Nancy Mauro-Flude and Jo Pollitt 2020 Courtesy of the artists. Distributed choreographic practices of marking and parsing are shaped by hybrid notation systems. By repositioning the web browser as a stage, non-human actors become contemporaneous with dancing agents and other intermediaries. The performance of the machinic assemblage, revealed through writing as dancing – compositions […]
Liminal Space – Awasitipahaskan
> Marina Hulzenga 2017 Courtesy of the artist. There are 140 First Nation reserves in Alberta, Canada. Each reserve is cut out of the landscape ‘for the use and benefit of the respective bands’ of the Indian Act. First Nations people tried to resist signing treatises and being put onto reserves. However their traditional way […]
Strophe, A Turning
> Ellie Ga 2017 Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, NY. Strophe, A Turning opens with Ellie Ga quoting the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam who compared launching a message in a bottle to the act of writing a poem to an unknown reader. Taking cues from both a bottle at sea and the beachcomber who […]
Misguide
> Wrights & Sites 2003 – 2006 Courtesy of the artists. Mis-Guides are like no other guides you have used before. Rather than telling you where to go and what to see, a Mis-Guide offers you new ways to see your city or environment. A Mis-Guide is both a forged passport to your ‘other’ city […]
Rider Spoke
> Blast Theory 2007 – present Courtesy of the artists. Rider Spoke invites you to cycle through the streets of the city alone with a smartphone on your handlebars and a voice in your ear. You’re asked questions about your life, searching for a place to hide your answer to each one. As you cycle, […]
Relic for Disruption
> Matthew Angelo Harrison 2021 Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery. Matthew Angelo Harrison’s commitment to both conceptual depth and dexterous craft is evident in his Dark Silhouettes, a complex body of sculptural work wherein the artist encapsulates carefully curated objects in tinted resins. In this chapter of the evolving series, Harrison is […]
Extinct Animals
> Marcus Coates 2019 Courtesy of the artist. Marcus Coates’ plaster sculptures take the form of different animal species whose extinctions were caused by humans. The artist has cast his own hands in poses that playfully recreate an approximation of the animal in its imagined shadow; each is a sincere and studied memorial of a […]
Untitled
> Roger Hiorns 2014 Found plastics, compressor, foam. Dimensions variable.Courtesy the artist and Corvi-Mora Gallery, London. Infused with a unique mix of strangeness and discomfort, Roger Hiorns’ Untitled works conjure the anxieties and contradictions of contemporary life. Hiorns’ past art materials include disinfectant, fire, and crystals. In many instances the materials are going through chemical […]