pattie beerens
My Master’s project explores an ethos of inhabiting place that decentres the human and repositions it in an ecosystem of materials. I draw on an intimate sense of relatedness with clay as I use performance, installation and crafting to practice, and make physical, the mental and material processes of inhabiting place.
I refer to the ongoing fluxing, flowing, mixing, mutating and movement of materials as mattering. I witness mattering as I engage attentively in an iterative process of trying to adapt my western anthropocentric thinking. By relating to the murmurings of the world as I work with materials, I engage in an inquiry with the world to which the materials and I belong. I develop site-specific routines of inhabiting as I experiment with material thinking and relate and care for materials as kin.
The creative transformations that evolve from these performances become transitory expressions of mattering ensembles. The place, the artist, the materials and the passers-by are woven together with context, within each durational performance.
I wonder what the world might look like if we could conceptualise ourselves – the human – as completely entangled in a world of mattering materials.
am i listening? @ Assembly Point (day 5 of 64 days), 2020
Performance, installation, mattering
2000mm x 7400mm x 1000mm
Photo by Thomas Feng
am i listening? @ Assembly Point (day 5 of 64 days), 2020
Performance, installation, mattering
2000mm x 7400mm x 1000mm
Photo by Thomas Feng
am i listening? @ Assembly Point (day 23 of 64 days), 2020
Performance, installation, mattering
2000mm x 7400mm x 1000mm
Photo by Thomas Feng
am i listening? @ Assembly Point (day 47 of 64 days), 2020
Performance, installation, mattering
2000mm x 7400mm x 1000mm
Photo by Thomas Feng
happening event @ am i listening? (day 49 of 64 days), 2020
Performance
2000mm x 7400mm x 1000mm
Photo by Justas Pipinis
am i listening? @ Assembly Point (day 55 of 64 days), 2020
Performance, installation, mattering
2000mm x 7400mm x 1000mm
am i listening? @ Assembly Point (day 36 of 64 days), 2020
Video
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Video by Rory Daniel
