Life-extending breadcrumbs: facilitating morphosis and collaborative sculptural practice through posthuman ethics

<p>This practice-led research project considers human agency in relation to matter and materialism. Seeking to unlearn human assertions of agency as dominant, this project fosters relational and collaborative exchanges with matter that manifest as installations and sculptural interventions. Informed by new materialist and posthuman frameworks, it recognises that material hierarchies are held in place by what we choose to prioritise in human worlds. This is practiced through open and responsive sculptural installations which form in relation to Other matter in order to speak with, think with, learn and unlearn, rather than overwrite the emergence of other agential capacities.</p> <p>Site-specific installations emerge through studio-based research, where I engage with, respond to and configure accumulated matter that I have collected from everyday material encounters. The material engagements affectively respond to an ethics of care where accountability is sought within material practice, enacted through the use of found and organic matter, slow accumulation, reuse and regeneration. The installations synthesise my associative and intuitive drawing practice with sculptural assemblages, each working in dialogue to form embodied encounters. Enactments of undoing and rebuilding seek to decentre and disperse the personal codification of language across ongoing bodies of work which become self-generative in nature. The installations undergo endless reconfigurations which explore the materials potential to 'become Other', or 'multiple', through various iterations which alter the forms and presentation of the material combinations. This pushes matter beyond singular cultural contextualisation as it undergoes a transformative process of morphosis.</p>