In the London studio I was playing with the skin of the fender, the fullness of it left behind in the Norwich studio. I continue with this splitting, insides and out. The multi is preferenced over the singular even if I am on my own and not with a group. I have started to write about adsorb; a thin film on the outside surface or on internal surfaces within the material and how this relates to touch. I have difficulty with the word touch as it sounds of the museum or related to handling? This is why I am preoccupied with prosthetic as it states a more embodied encounter beyond touch and towards attachment . However adsorption seems to talk about an adhesion, adhesive attachment. I think there is a conversation between the sticking to you, a putting to, the attachment and extension of the object. A prosthetic object. I know it feels contradictory to the idea of embodiment that seems entangled and digested and it is contradictory but there is something there that interests me. I feel it is similar to the idea of decoy as a surface and metaphor as layered. The importance of the surface is preoccupying and I am thinking of the adaptive nature of matter and event. You might have to bear with me on this one as I unpick a bit more. Adhering and adhesive connections and identification. There is something about the sticking of adsorption rather than the swallowing of absorption….it is all body. Swallowing something whole may mean that it is indigestible, not understood or considered. I am playing with a tiny contact with something that is nearly the same. A layering of truth s within matter. Recognizing itself, oneself. Iterations of object, image and layer. In terms of learning processes I am thinking about the transformative steps, to open to yield to take on. I keep thinking of the balls being ball bearings rolling and anchoring. So there is always a object mooring. In supervision it was noted that this could be seen as another contradiction and that bail bearings are anchored by other objects rather than being anchors. I think it is the push and pull between states that I am preoccupied by. The objects I make are contradictions and that their resting place in the middle of the contradiction. Except that contradictions force one element to be wrong and the objects I make become right in their wrongness. Maybe it is more of a paradox. Maybe therefore I shift the meanings of objects/words/terms to their opposing ends. i.e. I am thinking of the small weight of the ball bearings, they roll, turn and then become like full stops when still. Their function is to reduce friction. Friction is defined as; the force that makes it difficult for one object to slide along the surface of another or to move through a liquid or gas: I like mooring, I often say anchor, so there is the navigational again. Moving between, anchored by another. A temporary stopping. floats, buffers, nautical, anchors. 'strata' Deluze Guattari.... p25 'from double navel to particel siign' Carnal Knowledge read differences between 'particle signs' and 'particle sign' deluze - konturri singular - plural
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Kimberley FosterKimberley's practice as an artist is pedagogical, it doesn’t just reference learning, it plays with, embodies and encourages learning at its core. The objects consider ideas of collaboration and authorship, discussions about touch and encounter, and bring into active consideration issues of learning within social and participatory practices. Archives
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