Our stage three degree students are approaching the end of their studies. This is a showcase of their sustained practice, to accompany their final degree work.
My project ‘Active Matter ‘ was inspired by physics, the science of matter and energy. These works arose from research into Karen Barad’s philosophy of ‘Agential Realism’. She proposes that all bodies, including the human body, are indeterminate, without boundaries, constantly exchanging particles and energy with our surroundings.
https://www.stevecussons.co.uk/
Instagram:@stevecussons
Plant blindness is our inability to see or notice the plants around us, yet plants provide us with the food we eat and the oxygen that we breathe, within my work I try to graphically convey some of the threats faced by plants and give them a voice.
Website www.floremis.com
My now concluded Stage 3 work exists in the expanded field of drawing, engaging a wide range of methods which include photographic and digital processes. It also employs instructional methods to solicit participation. With it, I explore ideas of closeness, distance and contact while questioning what form the archive of a site might take.
IG: @draw___lena
The video essay, 'The haptic and the erotic', 2021 is part of my Research dissertation, grappling with key concepts in layered, remembered form.
Trafodecke 1, a kaleidoscope, 2021, a site-based installation, tracing paper,
dimensions variable
Part of my BoW, 'For Cover', this large format kaleidoscope is a site-based work marked tracing paper turns viewing device: to the distance but also its very own inside. It turns experiential some of the video’s themes.
#8 Go to the meadow, PDF to print zine, detail 2022
A/Folder: an instructive glossary, #8 Go to the meadow, is one of my PDF-to-print zines. As engagement, I devised a series of these zines to let work, site, methods distribute and circulate: It invites you to go to the meadow, and if you so like, respond through various means.