Ephemeral Bodies

EPHEMERAL BODIES is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly and emanates from POROSITY - an Arts Council funded R&D project which seeks to reveal unseen landscapes, exploring the walking body as a receiver of the hidden energies surrounding us.

Material investigations traced the interaction between the artist hand and material surfaces, tracing the exchange between absence and presence. Through site-specific drawing, the visible time taken to physically create, and the temporality of unconventional drawing materials, invite considerations about how we understand and value sensory encounters of invisible forces we cannot see.

During a research and development residency at AirSpace Gallery, collaborations with musician, Phil Phelps and water dowser, Deborah Bell allowed an exchange of creative thinking, discovery, mapping and transformation into physical reality.  New drawing and sonic works resulted, revealing a series of unseen energies – electro magnetics and vibrations, rhythms and waves – of sound and water – lying directly within the fabric of the building.

The final presentation combined existing works from Porosity and new site-responsive works created over the 5 weeks in residence.