ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Artist's Statement

Hypothesis: the art/architecture of prosthesis is a way of reassessing the role of art in public space.

The current fetishisation of the site and preoccupation with context has reinforced my resolve to locate work at the disjunction of architecture and public art - engaging constructively with a problematisation of that distinction.

Between body and architecture - prosthetics/exoskeleton
Between architecture and public art - parasite
Between urban infrastructure and public space - porosity

Each of these zones involves me in attachments or prosthetics rather than autonomous works. For each of these scales I have formulated a theme or strategy that I have used in relation to the idea of prosthetics. Within the gallery, prosthesis is manifest as exoskeleton. At the scale of the site-specific installation it is manifest as parasitism.
Within the urban landscape prosthetics are manifest as degrees of porosity.
The parasite or prosthetic attaches itself as an alternative proposition.

There is the possibility that the new limb replacement might create an itch, which provokes social or political change. Thus the appearance of function is subtly subverted by the new apparatus's ability to question.

My work is located in the itch created by the attachment.

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