Polymerized Flow Snag, 2023
Part 1 - 2-channel video, 7 mins
Part 2 - voices attached to buried objects
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video extract
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The work is based on a dialogue between a discarded meteorite fragment and a 'fatberg' blocking an East London sewer, which the meteorite finds itself part of.
The meteorite can be traced to the formation of the Earth's crust. 4.46 billion years ago. After orbiting the sun for millions of years, it landed in Argentina where it was held sacred in Moqoit cosmology as conduit between earth and sky. During colonial invasions it was looted from its sacred landing place, traded through Europe and centuries later turned up in The British Museum. Later, stolen again from the museum, it was chipped and traded online to amateur enthusiasts, eventually being discarded through flush networks and ending up a small part of the underground sewer-clogging more-than-human amalgamation.
The story emerges from the dialogue between the objects as they become the same object, mythic personifications of compressed space and time across multiple scales. In parallel, in the video, 3d-scanning technologies aim to visualize the entity, only ever creating partial models, while the voices riff across synthesizer theme tunes.
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shown at Fiction Machines IV
images: video stills
