The final week of emergent @thingpower and I had to cheat a bit because I ran out of time and this piece I made last year, Binary Codexxx just seems to fit the hole.
It relates to Ashby’s black box theory - an enclosed system that you can’t take apart to understand, only input and measure output to gain understanding of…which got me thinking about human sexuality, what turns us on and off and how it’s a mysterious thing which we understand about another person through trial and error over time…and the need to fall into a kind of entropy, the lack of control necessary to feel something so unbridled…and from that, creation or euphoria. Or something
For the latest iteration of the @thingpower vitrine project @leedsartsuni we chose Emergent Things as the overarching theme. The project has a temporal schedule, from inception in first week to entropy in the final week. Each vitrine cabinet is organised around an object type.
I installed the banners in the mutable cabinet during the abundancy period of the project.
The banners, titled Waste Makers, are made from waste plastic and litter collected in Leeds. The text is taken from The Waste Makers, a book written by Vance Packard in 1960 describing the methods and consequences of the burgeoning mass consumption culture. When read against the grain, it becomes a handbook for exploitation of consumers and environments for profit.
This work continues my research into gendered consumer subjectivities.
Thing power vitrines exhibition at LAU. Always a pleasure, seeing what everyone is engaging with every 2 weeks. Loads of fun making those eggs. #masproducedincubation #lauvitrines #thingspower #gabiboiangiu
Thing Power is back. This time our research group are considering things that are nebulous and evolving. All creative things start with the germ of an idea, thoughts float, develop and blossom and then deteriorate. The project is structured by the temporality of the life cycle of things from inception to entropy and across different types of things from the rarified, ephemeral and mutable to the mass produced and networked. This vitrine was made by @sjayeyre from a personal collection of found and borrowed lists and doodles.
Thing Power is back. This time our research group are considering things that are nebulous and evolving. All creative things start with the germ of an idea, thoughts float, develop and blossom and then deteriorate. The project is structured by the temporality of the life cycle of things from inception to entropy and across different types of things from the rarified, ephemeral and mutable to the mass produced and networked. This vitrine was made by @paulaschambers
Thing Power is back. This time our research group are considering things that are nebulous and evolving. All creative things start with the germ of an idea, thoughts float, develop and blossom and then deteriorate. The project is structured by the temporality of the life cycle of things from inception to entropy and across different types of things from the rarified, ephemeral and mutable to the mass produced and networked. This vitrine was made by @lucebergman .
It’s that @thingpower time of year again. This iteration we look at all things EMERGENT. This week’s theme was INCEPTION and my specialist subject Jeremy was MASS PRODUCED. This is a cross course collective research group with colleagues @leedsartsuni which explores the power of objects to communicate, provoke, illustrate. I always like to challenge myself to make my ‘thing’ in one day, only utilising what I have hanging around at home.
