VENT Live-Art Residency: Proposal
an exposition of binary combination
Inputs:
Statement as the mechanism for thinking:
- Oxford is located at the confluence of the rivers Thames [Isis] and Cherwell.
Central Questions:
- Does addition necessarily result in an increase or a dilution?
- What is the nature and diversity of confluence within Oxford? [From geographical to cultural]
Method:
- To undertake a formal series of investigations into points of convergence within the city of Oxford.
- To allow the process of investigation to be at the centre of my art practice and the project’s praxis.
- To continually generate and gather documentation pertaining to the continual events of investigation.
- To establish collaborations and forms of experimentation with members of the Oxford community and the other participants in VENT.
Outcomes:
- A consideration of confluence as a generative force and creative entity.
- An understanding of the nature and impact of multiple combinations of elements.
- The production of works in response to the central questions and results of the investigation.
- The generation of ‘second order’ performances, utilising the artefacts, fragments, samples and specimens that constitute the projects documentation, representing them in the form of a performative lecture series.
- To develop the nature and multiplicity of my practice, forging pathways for future exploration.
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