Imagination is..’the capacity to reconnect, to bring together that which is separate.’ (John Berger, 2009. ‘Why Look At Animals. p. 52. London: Penguin).
I make installations, and most recently performance, to ‘fiction’ an imaginary, postcapitalist future in which the world is peaceful. My work interrupts violent beliefs and language about the non-human and has implications for our relationship with nature more broadly, and wider concerns about ecocide.
I imagine a Museum of Human Violence, set in 2063. From this future, the audience is invited to re-experience the world of today from a different perspective and engage in dialogue about violence pre ‘Giant Rupture’, question beliefs about the ‘Other’, and consider what humans might have become by 2063: perhaps transhuman, cyborg or interspecies.
Booklets include drawings and maps and can be taken away. I also use posters, found, and made objects, and film. The materials I use are free of both animal products and plastic.
Galleries within the Museum focus on specific issues. The latest work focuses on biotechnology and biocapitalism: the move from making money from producing objects, to making money from human and non-human life as a commodity using technology and AI. In my work I draw on post-humanism, particularly its critique of the notion that humans are superior to all other life forms, and that other life forms exist for our use; and Critical Animal Studies which has an intersectional approach, highlighting how capitalism and commodification impact equality.
Member of Critical Edge Collective.
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Drawing As Critique 