CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS

CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS

EXOSKELETON

Exoskeleton is the term I have adopted to describe exploration into the intersection of body and technology. This work questions where the body stops and architecture or technology begins. The resulting forms speculate about minimum architecture via sculptural installations and city interventions. The term exoskeleton relates to the obvious parallel between our condition as humans and that of insects. I.e. a person in a car is an insect form. The devices employed in Exoskeleton, including clothing, readymade machines and mixed media constructions adapt and change as scale changes. E.g. Clothing may become landscape at the scale of infrastructure.

PARASITE

When exoskeleton structures attach to architecture, they become parasites. My parasites use architecture as site. Within the viral form of the city these retrofit parasite structures renegotiate and invent new public spaces. Ultimately these structures form architecture of prosthesis.

POROSITY

The aims of my work at the scale of urban infrastructure are primarily involved in the renegotiation of public space and the invention of public space. The term Porosity is employed to describe an increase in the permeability of the city and its buildings to penetration by the public and hence public space. Increased access to the interior and exterior spaces of the city is seen as desirable for reasons of increased social interaction. Public art has a role to play in interrogating the built form of our cities. Via attachment structures and involvement in major urban planning projects, I have been able to affect these changes in public space definition.

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