Minkin, Louisa (2023) Shifts and Expedients. [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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Creators: | Minkin, Louisa |
Description: | This apparatus is an improvised balance. A stick covered in cloth, a hook, pivot and a bronze weight. What is in the balance? A 3D print of an abducted gourd vessel, a shabby ill-made pair of trousers. Keeping the balance depends on keeping the items apart. As a viewer moves, air currents cause the apparatus to rotate and shudder, destabilsing the equilibrium. The piece is remade and reconfigured in each iteration. Variable materials: Watercolour of a Quagga, from the series Extinct, 2009 In 1858 Baines accompanied David Livingstone on his expedition along the Zambezi. Latitude 19°42´10” South 08-Aug John Fontein shot a quagga, the meat was slightly strong. Jan Vrei had worn the same trousers from Maritzburg, but there were no spare, so Baines cut out a piece of duck and by evening they were completed. 21-Nov Inyassi begs for some trousers, but as there are none, Baines cuts out a piece of duck for him and by the afternoon he has the trousers. From: The northern goldfields diaries of Thomas Baines, edited by J. P. R. Wallis, London, |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Decolonial practices, Anarchival Practices |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins |
Date: | 29 September 2023 |
Funders: | AHRC GCRF Imagining Futures |
Related Websites: | https://ifrepo.world/Detail/projects/41, https://artgallery.uleth.ca/mootookakiossin-creating-in-spacetime-hess-gallery-november-6-december-16-2023/, https://create.ifrepo.world/VolumeB/articles/2/, https://ifrepo.world/Detail/resources/196, https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection, https://artslondon.padlet.org/lminkin/prisoners-of-love-affect-containment-and-alternative-futures-7wn1dndkhcelat49, https://imaginingfutures.world/projects/prisoners-of-love-affect-containment-and-alternative-futures/ |
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Related Publications: | OST-zine |
Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date OST, OPENing Space, Angel Court, Bank, London 29 September 2023 30 September 2023 Mootookakio'ssin: Creating in Space Time, Hess Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 6 November 2023 16 December 2023 Seed Bomb, Marine Workshops, Newhaven East Sussex 24 August 2024 8 September 2024 Druids in the Crash Zone, Camp Fire, The Good Rice, London NW1 16 January 2025 18 January 2025 |
Material/Media: | Reconfigurable items: 3D PLA prints, bronze, sticks, fabric, copper, twine |
Measurements or Duration of item: | Variable |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2024 10:45 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2025 10:28 |
Item ID: | 22486 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/22486 |
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