Open Spatial Workshop – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:35:59 +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 Open Spatial Workshop – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 FAULT http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/traces_gallery/fault/ Fri, 11 Sep 2015 01:45:53 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=traces_gallery&p=858 Fault investigates the multiple temporalities that matter registers through forces of contraction, dilation, folding, compression and erosion. Through video-collage, OSW explores the convergence of these forces that give rise to an earth that is ‘indelibly inscribed’ (Claire Colebrook). Anchored around the material specificity of a geological specimen, this work follows fissures that expose glimpses of differing tempos resonating from events that knot together accumulation and extinguishment.

Beginning with a Sea Lily fossil1 selected from the Natural Sciences collection at Museum Victoria, OSW presents a video-work of ‘temporal-fragments’ that visualise the movements of matter across durations, and complex convergences brought into relation by the specimen. Approached through the framework provided by the Sea Lily fossil, matter’s movement includes the massive sea-floor landslides and tectonic subduction that occurred over millennia, which contributed to the formation of the Eastern Australian coastline. The Sea Lily specimen persists as a tiny material remainder registering these processes, whilst also connecting with recent anthropogenic activity.

The circa 1903 event of this fossil’s excavation is contingent upon the brick-making industry reliant on the clay reserves that dominated West Brunswick. Formed by the ancient landslides taking place before the emergence of homo-sapiens, this clay provided the primary material for the Hoffman’s brickworks, a key supplier meeting Melbourne’s brick requirements in post gold rush development. The hunger for clay generated two extensive excavations on either side of Albert Street2, which widened proportionate to the surge in Melbourne’s built fabric.

The Sea Lily fossil has stimulated a process of temporal excavation through such relations, making apparent materiality’s complex durational qualities, and entanglements with the politics of extraction, forces of production, geo-bio-human history, energy and economies.

1 The particular fossil is a ‘holotype’ providing the initial description of its kind.

2 The first excavation was backfilled with domestic refuse from 1947, taking 17 years to fill. By 1981, it had settled sufficiently to be redeveloped becoming Clifton Park. Hoffman’s second pit became Gilpin Park, situated next to a contemporary housing development incorporating the remaining buildings associated with the brickworks.

Download the Room Guide for this project below.

Fault (2015) Open Spatial Workshop

]]> Fault investigates the multiple temporalities that matter registers through forces of contraction, dilation, folding, compression and erosion. Through video-collage, OSW explores the convergence of these forces that give rise to an earth that is ‘indelibly inscribed’ (Claire Colebrook). Anchored around the material specificity of a geological specimen, this work follows fissures that expose glimpses of differing tempos resonating from events that knot together accumulation and extinguishment.

Beginning with a Sea Lily fossil1 selected from the Natural Sciences collection at Museum Victoria, OSW presents a video-work of ‘temporal-fragments’ that visualise the movements of matter across durations, and complex convergences brought into relation by the specimen. Approached through the framework provided by the Sea Lily fossil, matter’s movement includes the massive sea-floor landslides and tectonic subduction that occurred over millennia, which contributed to the formation of the Eastern Australian coastline. The Sea Lily specimen persists as a tiny material remainder registering these processes, whilst also connecting with recent anthropogenic activity.

The circa 1903 event of this fossil’s excavation is contingent upon the brick-making industry reliant on the clay reserves that dominated West Brunswick. Formed by the ancient landslides taking place before the emergence of homo-sapiens, this clay provided the primary material for the Hoffman’s brickworks, a key supplier meeting Melbourne’s brick requirements in post gold rush development. The hunger for clay generated two extensive excavations on either side of Albert Street2, which widened proportionate to the surge in Melbourne’s built fabric.

The Sea Lily fossil has stimulated a process of temporal excavation through such relations, making apparent materiality’s complex durational qualities, and entanglements with the politics of extraction, forces of production, geo-bio-human history, energy and economies.

1 The particular fossil is a ‘holotype’ providing the initial description of its kind.

2 The first excavation was backfilled with domestic refuse from 1947, taking 17 years to fill. By 1981, it had settled sufficiently to be redeveloped becoming Clifton Park. Hoffman’s second pit became Gilpin Park, situated next to a contemporary housing development incorporating the remaining buildings associated with the brickworks.

Download the Room Guide for this project below.

Fault (2015) Open Spatial Workshop

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