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rumours of rain

my plants are telling me they need water, Watercare is telling me I cannot use the garden hose. what to do? catch as much rain as possible. after the water tank fills from the diverter – the black hose – the rain will flow into my garden. 3. make a shower siphon basin

in my alternative reality hut

join me on zoom to meet the neigbours at 8pm https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2382797999

planning your Alternative Reality Hut: who, how, where

Building an alternative reality hut should be undertaken as an imagination experiment. Imagine for a moment that things are real in the same way that you and I are real. Imagine that they have an actual, material existence that only partially coincides with our experience of them. Pretend for a moment that objects have materialContinue reading “planning your Alternative Reality Hut: who, how, where”

Mayonez: images

I Don’t Know…. sequence at different time points in the 15 minute loop Link to video of I Don’t Know if the trees know that I Breathe their breath sequence Link to video of I Don’t Know if the water knows how it will make its way to the sea sequence

Unruly Heritage

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
For weeks I’ve struggled with how to compose this post because my thoughts feel all chaotic and jumbled. However, the name of this blog is “Larval Subjects”. This blog is a place for the development of half-formed, perhaps ill advised or poorly conceived thoughts. For no thought can be thought…

Dwelling With

The World is Enough: On Overmining and Undermining

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
It seems to me that one of the greatest ethical challenges for thought is to encounter the world as being enough. While ontology ought not be evaluated on ethical grounds (i.e., we shouldn’t let a set of ethical and political commitments determine what is or isn’t ontologically true), it is…

Conversation Pit #1

Thanks to Yasmina Giles, Hannah Potbury and Mark van Wetering for test-driving Conversaton Pit with me. The provocation for the first Conversation Pit was from Timothy Morton in Conversation with Verso Books focusing on the sections in which Morton introduces his term Subscendence and the possibility that ‘the whole is less than the sum ofContinue reading “Conversation Pit #1”

WATER

Curated by Linda Cook, Water invites thirteen artists to respond to this fundamental liquid. The result is an eclectic mix of media and visual languages which trace our complex relationship with this essential liquid. details of the work and the contributing artists can be viewed via the e-catalogue Thanks Linda, it is a great show.Continue reading “WATER”

Red Orange Conversation Pit

I have titled my new art project Conversation Pit in romantic retro–speculation for the 1960s and 70s architectural phenomena of the conversation pit. Romantic because my knowledge of it is predominantly formed through Hollywood-mediated fiction; there was not a whiff of the conversation pit in my own rural New Zealand 70s era childhood. Retro –Continue reading “Red Orange Conversation Pit”