Pollen Station :: 2020
Show description by Bronia Iwańczak, curator.
This show is an organic curation, ‘like attracts like’ and all the artists and writers involved are thinkers: different angles, different hues. My motivation was to create a record, ‘to clot the flow’ of a moment in time which feels like a strange global ‘Covid induced dream’ – (while we were sleeping…) – we were being restructured in our consciousness, partly to the last throes of an opportunistic capitalism and partly to the new understanding of a progressive aspiration of a radical interdependence, with all the empathy, generosity, vulnerability and the terrible debt that we owe each other in a stormy sea.
Maggie Roberts_0rphan Drift
My/Our current concerns in art making are around encounters with speculative narrative, ecology, quantum universe, a meeting of presence and futurity, and the expanded spatial and temporal scales of climate crisis as geopolitical pressure. The aim is always to complicate the distinctions between material and virtual phenomena and dimensions, both in content and media, often creating intricate and excessive surfaces in material form. I/We harness both ancient predictive and contemporary digital technologies to create non-linear narratives and installations that propose a tactile and fluid Reality and embrace a relationship to the Unknown. Inspired by embodied cognitive science and radical anthropology, the multiple channel installations suggest possibilities in expanding and inhabiting other systems of perception and proprioception. The work combines video, animation and text with newer tools such as LIDAR scanning to suggest new spatio-temporal formations and ask what kind of bodies might be possible with these new coordinates. Thanks to Megan Bagshaw for VFX Supervision, Jason Stapleton for LIDAR Scan animations and Etic Lab’s Interspecies Ontological Research Software for generating the dissection description.