Ishkoodah
“A constellation of words, matter and mind, this live — ONLINE INSTALLATION — draws you into a juncture in space and time. You’re encouraged to pause and ponder, to come and go as you please, to notice how the installation evolves both with you and in the wake of your gaze.
Collaborating with ephemeral matter including ice, clay, fire, agar-agar, moss, lichen, text and my voice, I invite you to step outside your human-centred experience to wonder how we might communicate with the more-than-human others around us.
Know that this work is a contradiction. It is a cue to pause in the busiest space imaginable: online. To ponder the non-human in the most human way possible: through art. To envisage possible worlds within a world of my subjective imagining. I ask not that you ignore these contradictions, forget our complicated pasts and present, or attempt to provide answers to the questions posed.
I ask only that you remain curious enough to listen, wonder, and imagine.”
Ishkoodah is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people. Ishkoodah works across installation, sculpture, performance, text, and new media to create audience encounters both virtual and physical.
Above the Moon (Detail 1), 2020
Clay, fire, found object, ash, water, air, memory, rosemary, time
Above the Moon (Detail 2), 2020
Agar-agar, air, moisture, grass, weeds, insects, time
Above the Moon (Detail 3), 2020
Clay, fire, found object, ash, water, air, memory, rosemary, time
Above the Moon (Detail 4), 2020
Ice, algae, lichen, dirt, found object
