Claire Baily will focus on the development of bio-based materials, processes and techniques as viable alternatives to existing sculptural processes that are dominated by petrochemicals. Exploring making as an act of care, she draws on practices associated with food and nourishment to support a deeper, reciprocal relationship with the land.
Read MoreTaey Iohe will explore stories of movement — how transboundary leaks travel through anticolonial resistance, shaped by both human and more-than-human forces. Their work will take a transdisciplinary approach, tending to medical narratives, ecological belonging, and unheard voices that cross borders, drawing from eco-crip and queer-feminist perspectives.
Read MoreNastassja Simensky will continue to develop her research in atmospheric infrastructure and the ways that particles, such as dust, static, noise and friction are circulated and transmitted. Specifically focusing on the environmental impacts of aeolian dust, Simensky is interested in how these particles might operate both as objects of scientific scrutiny and poetic devices.
Read MoreUndead Matter the multidisciplinary practice of Sophie Williamson, focuses on the intimacy of dying, and its dialogue with geology, ecology and planetary futures. In a newly disabled body (imprinted by the shifting ecologies of the Anthropocene, after being bitten by a tick in 2023), Undead Matter navigates unexpected outcomes from forced rest, unproductivity and learning about survival through crip allyship across species.
Read MoreFrom zero-hours contracts or 8-week international exhibition runs, today, much professional art practice in the UK functions in a largely extractive and colonial manner, predicated on the exploitation of labour, mobility and resources and denying culpability in a world of ecocide, violence and contradiction.
Read MoreAbbas Zahedi has long been interested in Sarat Maharaj’s 2002 essay, Xeno-Epistemics. In this text, Maharaj refers to art knowledge as ‘a matter of inventing other ways of thinking-knowing […] other epistemological engines [… and] ways of knowing otherness.’
Read MoreRachel proposes Making Time through volcanoes, alongside science and engineering, learning from ideas in origin of life studies – OOL – or Abiogenesis: materiality expressing agency and life.
Read More(Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo) is a duo which develop modes of art-led enquiry that examine the extractive gaze of the management of raw materials.
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