Glazed ceramic, scaffolding planks, boat varnish, garden wire, plaster, rosebush, nickel neck chain, steel chains, chair, lead pipe, copper pipe, sawdust, ammonia, pillowcase, shoes, watercolour drawings, flyposter.
Market Gallery, Glasgow, 2013
New States was a three part installation which took the Antiketherya Mechanism - thought to be the first analogue device and one which was to used to measure the movements of celestial bodies - as its origin to explore ideas of submerged tools, knowledges and personal and collective memory which were once known but that have been forgotten, disrupted or repressed.
The work used materials from both domestic interior and exterior spaces, all in various forms of collapse or construction, to quietly consider and destabalise what it might mean to create 'new states' from the chemical level, to the societal and the cosmic.
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