PLASTICITIES, malaises, SURVIVALS
PLASTICITIES, malaises, SURVIVALS is a practice led project that has emerged out of a personal experience of displacement. Working between Dight’s Falls, the foundry, and the gallery I cast beeswax sculptures, gather found materials, and record video and sound to stage a poetic response to the world I encounter daily. With methodologies derived from folk and lyric poetry, sculpture, and phenomenology, I re-imagine the poetics of my experience through sites of transformation, material labours, and displacements of form and matter. These reveries of site, labour, and material transformation place me amongst a poetic structure of plasticity – that same plasticity I encounter walking the soft river tracks of Dight’s Falls and melting, moulding, and pouring wax in the foundry. I figure myself amongst the perpetual displacement that characterise modern Australia by poeticising this disruptive excess that underlies the hard and polished surfaces of Melbourne. There lies at the heart of this work an act of survival. A hope that plasticity perhaps means survival. Against a tide of displacements its poetic structure may steady my interminable passage through a hard and polished world.
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