An Elastic Continuum, 2023
An international symposium at S1 Artspace, Sheffield. Curated by NMRG co-leads Sharples & Rebecca Howard.
Arriving from the proposition of ‘skin’, An Elastic Continuum offers an interface with skinnings: surfaces, architectural structures, organisms, membranes and embalmings. The works on show present a plethora of intersectional readings that transect ontologies of animacy and the sensorial, biotechnical interventions (birth, growth, ailment, and death), human, animal and plant bodies, and spaces of trans-ition, whether -gender, -species or interior-exterior relations).
Featuring: Ellie Barrett, Bethan Hughes, Sinéad Kempley, Victoria Lucas, Stephanie Rushton.
Funded by University of Derby’s Early-Career Researcher Development Fund. The title is used with kind permission from presenting artist Bethan Hughes.
Photographs: James Clarkson.
An international symposium at S1 Artspace, Sheffield. Curated by NMRG co-leads Sharples & Rebecca Howard.
Arriving from the proposition of ‘skin’, An Elastic Continuum offers an interface with skinnings: surfaces, architectural structures, organisms, membranes and embalmings. The works on show present a plethora of intersectional readings that transect ontologies of animacy and the sensorial, biotechnical interventions (birth, growth, ailment, and death), human, animal and plant bodies, and spaces of trans-ition, whether -gender, -species or interior-exterior relations).
Featuring: Ellie Barrett, Bethan Hughes, Sinéad Kempley, Victoria Lucas, Stephanie Rushton.
Funded by University of Derby’s Early-Career Researcher Development Fund. The title is used with kind permission from presenting artist Bethan Hughes.
Photographs: James Clarkson.
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