to move too fast to move (2018)

The final installation, representing my body of work produced during my Honours degree through Flinders University at Adelaide College of the Arts.

exegesis abstract:

A wandering mind, or a disorientated being, is commonly acknowledged as cause for concern; those who may appear to be lost are often collected for treatment or medicalization. But perhaps we need to re-evaluate our relationships with these destabilising periods. Perhaps finding oneself overwhelmed by options or uncertain of direction may be a reality that’s becoming unavoidable, due to the current acceleration of information from our surroundings of perpetual technological advances. The theories of Paul Virilio, Jane Bennett and Jonathon Crary, and the practices of Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris and Peter Fischli & David Weiss (amidst others), provide the framework for this investigation of the potential perils and pleasures that may present as opportunities for recreation.

Through a practice-led research process, I’ve attempted to engage with the often overwhelming sensation of uncertainty in a slapstick style reconstruction of the gallery surroundings into unfamiliar configurations. By activating the distorted space with kinetic movers the audience’s sensory receptors may be overloaded as you navigate through the space, causing a sense of disorientation and destabilisation, revealing the opportunity for an exploration of one’s ability to restructure the self and find new passages.

Images and video courtesy of Christopher Arblaster and the artist