13.11.20 Reflections on apparition in my practice
There are elements of apparition, fantasy and ritual in my recent work, suggesting dreams or nightmares. Playing with the thresholds between reality & unreality, presence/absence, embodiment/disembodiment, I’m giving physical form to what is unseen and making tangible that which is intangible.
There are a number of aspects of apparition in my practice that I'd like to explore further:
1. Making the invisible, visible, the intangible, tangible.
2. Ephemeral nature of eg Parts of me, 2020. Why it's important that they're changeable.
3. Time. Past, present, future 'Imagining the past and remembering the future.'
British historian, Lewis Namier said: “One would expect people to remember the past and to imagine the future. But in fact, when discoursing or writing about history, they imagine it in terms of their own experience, and when trying to gauge the future they cite supposed analogies from the past: till, by a double process of repetition, they imagine the past and remember the future.” (Namier, in Pearce, 2011)
4. Presence and absence, reality/unreality
5. Ritual and symbolism
6. Fantasy, dreams, nightmares
Pearce, D (2011) Technological Singularities, Intelligence Explosions & The Future of Biological Sentience Available at: https://www.hedweb.com/intelligence-explosion/index.htmlwww.hedweb.com/intelligence-explosion/index.html (Accessed: 13 November 2020)
There are a number of aspects of apparition in my practice that I'd like to explore further:
1. Making the invisible, visible, the intangible, tangible.
2. Ephemeral nature of eg Parts of me, 2020. Why it's important that they're changeable.
3. Time. Past, present, future 'Imagining the past and remembering the future.'
British historian, Lewis Namier said: “One would expect people to remember the past and to imagine the future. But in fact, when discoursing or writing about history, they imagine it in terms of their own experience, and when trying to gauge the future they cite supposed analogies from the past: till, by a double process of repetition, they imagine the past and remember the future.” (Namier, in Pearce, 2011)
4. Presence and absence, reality/unreality
5. Ritual and symbolism
6. Fantasy, dreams, nightmares
Pearce, D (2011) Technological Singularities, Intelligence Explosions & The Future of Biological Sentience Available at: https://www.hedweb.com/intelligence-explosion/index.htmlwww.hedweb.com/intelligence-explosion/index.html (Accessed: 13 November 2020)