Constructing an apparatus that provides the conditions for the work to exist.
My ongoing practice is based on certain principles that guide its production - flat ontology - in which everything I posit as real is equal in status and eligibility, and chance as a motor of event and encounter. As a consequence, there are no privileged subjects, materials, sites, or processes.
The contingent consequences of these encounters are accepted over the orthodoxies of style, authorship, or taste. The aim is to establish that this mechanism of 'closeness' produces an emergent new event: neither an autonomous object nor a static commentary, but a condition of constantly re-entering the field of creative advance from somewhere else.
This abstract methodology in practice functions within a world that echoes that of contemporary scenography, which deals with incompletion, provisionality, and importantly material presence and ambiguity. My work explores and sustains an ecology of provisional structures, fragments, residue and unstable relations that are often purposefully (within the context of the process) clumsy and unresolved,. The small scale of the objects intensifies the attention of the spectator without a corresponding dominating physical authority.
The work and the space choose each other. The performance is neither dictated by the site nor independent of it. The event occurs, gathers conditions and awaits further occasions.
Presented as thresholds between the conditions of events enables states of instability non-resolution and perplexity.