SCULPTURE​
SCULPTURE​
PAINT & INK
PAINT & INK
PAINT & INK
CV
CV
CV
THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
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‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
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This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
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THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
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‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
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This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
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THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
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‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
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This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
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Harrison Waed See
REDACTION TOOLKIT is a collaborative, artistic response to real-world conflict and disaster contexts, specifically, the social and cultural phenomena that arise in their aftermath. This exhibition represents an ongoing, material dialogue between:
Jacob Canet-Gibson (@jacobcanetgibson)
Stirling Kain (@stirlingkain)
Harrison Waed See (@harrison.see)
Jordee Stewart (@j_0rd33)
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The themes explored in REDACTION TOOLKIT are prompted by an amalgam of real-word contexts. However, as artists collaborated, each responded to their own speculative contexts developed from a unique mix of the personally-sensed and experienced; as well as historical and currently-emerging events. Importantly, none of the artists have explicitly revealed the nature of these speculative contexts to their collaborators. This ambiguity is a type of self-redaction that underpins their fragmented, adaptive, and exploratory ways of working.
'Redaction’ (or redacting) as a concept is integral, and prompted other verbs—censoring, celebrating, mythologising, silencing, forgetting, venerating, reconciling, memorialising, denying, distorting, and fragmenting—informed by how communities make sense of their past and present. In this way, redacting, along with these other verbs, are explored as subject, material, and method in the studio.
The material and conceptual positions through which collaboration emerged included: optical lens technologies; data art and sonification; historical and contemporary photographic workflows; figurative painting and drawing; soft sculpture; and graphic design. The resulting solo and collaborative works arose reciprocally and rhizomatically as these diverse positions intersected. This collaborative dialogue mirrors the plurality of ways people respond to conflict and disaster contexts, and has led to an expanding array of novel, and heterogeneous art methodologies.​​​
LIGHT WORKS (@light___works), 112 Murray St, Boorloo.​
​OPENING EVENT: 6pm – 8pm, Sat (28 Feb), opened by Martina Mrongovius, performance by Jacob Canet-Gibson
​DURATION: 12pm – 5pm, Sat (28 Feb) – Sun (1 Mar) & Thu (5 Mar) – Sat (7 Mar)
​OUTCOME UNKNOWN (music): 7pm – 9pm, Thu (5 Mar)
​ARTIST TALK: 2pm – 3pm, Sat (7 Mar)
MOVING IMAGE LAP PERTH (films): 5.30pm – 7.30pm, Sat (7 Mar)