Nature imersive aliciaescott 2

9. “The cultural marginalization of animals is, of course, a more complex process than “The their cultural physical marginalization marginalization. of animals The animals is, of course, of the a more mind complex cannot process be so than easily dispersed. their physical Sayings, marginalization. dreams, The games, stories, animals of superstitions, the mind cannot the be so language easily dispersed. Sayings, dreams, games, itself, stories, recall superstitions, them. The the language animals itself, of the mind, recall instead them. The of animals being of dispersed, the mind, have been instead co-opted of being into dispersed, the family have been and co-opted into ” spectacle” — John Berger, 1980 — John Berger, 1980

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-recycling/ exists only as photograph Bears: -still thinking about mediated imagery -how animal imagery is appropriated for branding/ essential ized -life sized -how this work did something else also and how I embrace at – -received well
-intro: -this image lead into contextualizing my later work -some of the work in initial presentation -work executed over last year/current projects Take away: -I want you to understand my particular way of working in which one idea may lead to a material choice and then that material choice may lead to the next concept. Establishing rules and then breaking them in the next piece or series. How work can move from the very analytical and cerebral into the emotional or romantic This project: -first employment of this technique -non recyclable -tracking of consumer packaging/media images -recycling of these drawings
-recycling/ exists only as photograph Bears: -still thinking about mediated imagery -how animal imagery is appropriated for branding/ essential ized -life sized -how this work did something else also and how I embrace at – -received well
Same drawing as before in a later installation Reason for repeating images Malleability of one work becoming another. -it was this latter installation that most evocatively and successfully captured the concepts of signifiers that I was talking about with the previous slide. -Multiple drawn surrogates installed interacting together -installed with store bought readymade consumer goods which bolstered the concepts.
At the same time as this I was installing these works outside in a project where I was Documenting the “Relocation” of these drawn surrogates into there native habitat
All of this work began to do something very different
-interspecies relationships -evolution/de-evolution -a shamanistic quality -unexpectedly romantic
This is an unfinished video in which I was reading virginia woolfs suicide letter to her husband. It was not working
Recognizing that what I was really beginning to be interested in was interspecies relationships and evolution, around the time of the mountain lion drawing I was thinking about making a drawing of a male primate standing erect, which would become a video work— side tracked into the love letter project (which of all my work to-date best discusses what I was looking to talk about with interspecies relationships). When I got back into the studio making physical objects again I was lucky enough to be an Artist in residence at the Djerassi foundation) I had always had that drawing in the back of my mind. When I started doing research about it I realized that at one point Djerassi had been home to Koko the signing gorilla and that she was living out here last years about 20 min from there. This really struck me and changed the nature of that project. This is a video still from the video work “and the crowd had rushed together, trying to keep warm”

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