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Five2Watch: Materiality


For #Five2Watch this week we've selected five artists who have considered materiality as part of their practice: Lucinda Burgess, Rebecca D. Harris, Ana Rosa Hopkins, Ellie Doney and Louise Mackenzie.


Outside In, 2014

Lucinda Burgess

Steel chain, cut and polished.

Lucinda Burgess


Untitled (two plugs), 2014

Rebecca D. Harris

Following on from the artworks which explored the biomedical interventions in the obese body and subsequent sagging skin, these works explore the restriction within the body in general.

Rebecca D. Harris


Think Act Form: materials, origins and affinities (2), 2014

Ana Rosa Hopkins

Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon Portugal
15 May - 28 June 2014

Ana Rosa Hopkins


Slick of Joy, 2017

Ellie Doney

Terri's nans sauce

Olive oil or butter

Chopped onions and garlic

Lemon juice

Dried oregano

Salt and pepper

Tinned tomatoes


Lively Material, 2020

Louise Mackenzie

Single channel video. 17:35

Lively Material is a video diary of artist Louise Mackenzie's research learning how to genetically modify bacteria to contain cultural, rather than biological information. Working at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University (UK), Mackenzie has an idea that she would like to store her thought within the body of a living organism. The film is a video diary of her laboratory practice, following her thought as it is translated from a phrase spoken aloud into a code that becomes represented as physical material: synthetic DNA which is finally stored within the body of the laboratory workhorse, E. coli bacteria.

Louise Mackenzie

 


Published 27 May 2022

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