Fine Art
Audrey Bertie Yvonne Corrigan Sarah Jane Coxon Ellen Duffy Áine Farelly Emma Griffin Charlotte Hunt Inguna Mainule Thomas McCarthy Rachael Melvin Leah Millar Kate Murphy Magda Oleksiewicz Sean Prendergast Julie Ray Larkin Nicole Reddin Rozalia Relea Katie Staniford Lucy Tevlin Paul WhiteEllen Duffy
Assembling Agency
'Assembling Agency' is a body of work tied to an interest in how materials relate to one another in their grouping and the role of support that the individual object plays in the structure of the assemblage. Jane Bennett refers to the vitality of the 'thing' as '[having] power by virtue of its operating in conjunction with other things.'
These objects or things operate within a network of relations. That is not to say that one part of an assemblage cannot then go on to become part of another configuration. This work attempts to look at the world, not as a being made up of human-nonhuman, subject-object relationships, but as existing in perpetually changing assemblages that create infinite networks.
The agency that operates in this body of work is bound together, not only by their locality but their reliance upon one another to work. They exist in a system of non-hierarchical relations, made up of found objects, transformed material and fabricated structures. Every component is necessary to form the structural properties of each assemblage.
'Assembling Agency' is a body of work tied to an interest in how materials relate to one another in their grouping and the role of support that the individual object plays in the structure of the assemblage. Jane Bennett refers to the vitality of the 'thing' as '[having] power by virtue of its operating in conjunction with other things.'
These objects or things operate within a network of relations. That is not to say that one part of an assemblage cannot then go on to become part of another configuration. This work attempts to look at the world, not as a being made up of human-nonhuman, subject-object relationships, but as existing in perpetually changing assemblages that create infinite networks.
The agency that operates in this body of work is bound together, not only by their locality but their reliance upon one another to work. They exist in a system of non-hierarchical relations, made up of found objects, transformed material and fabricated structures. Every component is necessary to form the structural properties of each assemblage.
