Between the paddle becoming both a spoon a shovel and a tongue. After referencing ‘up shit creak, I was also thinking of shovelling shit, being spoon fed…the allegory of the long spoons and needing to feed each other rather than being able to feed oneself. (This object needs the arm extension, to be held at arm’s length).
The objects movement conceptually is important in earlier images the paddle was a flag or an arm waving, but becomes a spoon or shovel or weighted hand. This increases by the weight on the end (like stepping on someone’s toes) the shoe starts to do this. The threaded connector at the top of the paddle is changing through the interventions and added and subtracted objects. It moves from a connector to a valve as though we could blow into the paddle and inflate it. Does it then become an armband, life saver? This restlessness seems to echo the states of flux indicated by the participants the movement from and to. The paddle as steering tool or lifesaver, tongue and spoon. The group often relate to food and this direct link to a transformative process makes complete sense the ingredients needed the changing state the elemental attributes involved but also the tasting or the digestion (this is something detailed within my recent co-authored paper as the digestive tract of knowing) but in this sense the consumption of an idea or thought is considered. The objects I am using in the objects here lack the water or saliva needed to swallow and the matter offered up on the spoon shovel are unpalatable husks. The more reading that I do in relation to matter the more complex and problematic it becomes. From allowing a freedom and shared ownership of being that extends across, beyond and between. A status that implodes human non-human object subject associations, but equally it can dilute the very definitions that allow us to navigate distinctive points of reference.
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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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