Julieanna Preston and Jen Archer-Martin – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:56:42 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles/cropped-PM_ico_02-32x32.jpg Julieanna Preston and Jen Archer-Martin – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 BIT-U-MEN-AT-WORK http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/passages_mobile/bit-u-men-at-work/ Sun, 05 Jul 2015 20:36:29 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=passages_mobile&p=360 Discourses and practices in the realm of make and repair are typically gendered and domesticated – situated somewhere near or within the home. Often driven by the actions by both skilled and unskilled labourers, these practices have foundations in frugality, need, moral value, or material scarcity. Propelled by issues of sustainability and idealisation of the local, vernacular or artisan, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in how we craft and make the material world. These localised acts have served as critiques of globalisation, mechanisation and dehumanisation – a separation between bodies, people, the manufactured and distributed worlds.

Julieanna Preston’s site-specific intervention, Bit-u-men-at-work, serves to explicate the machine-like devouring needs of perpetual mobility that our road systems manifest. The freeway, the highway, the road or the lane – across scales of distance and efficiency – these are the bitumen veins of mobility. Ever present, these are the norms of our landscape, and in Australia they run the periphery of the mainland and are repeated on our smaller islands. These veins seem to hold us together; a bitumen veiny network that is in a constant state of repair, being made by road teams, and being unmade by the vehicles that pound across its surfaces.

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Julieanna Preston’s site-specific intervention, Bit-u-men-at-work, serves to explicate the machine-like devouring needs of perpetual mobility that our road systems manifest. The freeway, the highway, the road or the lane – across scales of distance and efficiency – these are the bitumen veins of mobility. Ever present, these are the norms of our landscape, and in Australia they run the periphery of the mainland and are repeated on our smaller islands. These veins seem to hold us together; a bitumen veiny network that is in a constant state of repair, being made by road teams, and being unmade by the vehicles that pound across its surfaces.

]]> BIT-U-MEN-AT-WORK: a desiring machine http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/assembly_symposium/bit-u-men-at-work-a-desiring-machine/ Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:54:49 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=procession_symposium&p=456 This symposium presentation expands upon bit-u-men-at-work, a durational performance informed by Delueze and Guattari’s concept of the desiring machine in relation to labour and mobility. It will reflect on the creative work’s development, including an observational and interactive analysis of road repair crews and maintenance of road resurfacing equipment.

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