The Flashes, 2019/20
Multichannel animation with sound, screen-printed coal-dust on Kozo paper 65 x 95 cm, plant matter.
Taking wetlands created through coal-mining subsistence as its subject, The Flashes uses animation and installation to reflect on the changed nature of labour practices and the ways that matter is transformed through digitisation, emphasising how all digital media is produced by, and dependent on, the physical world; the raw matter and toiling bodies that make ‘the cloud’ happen.
Multichannel animation with sound, screen-printed coal-dust on Kozo paper 65 x 95 cm, plant matter.
Taking wetlands created through coal-mining subsistence as its subject, The Flashes uses animation and installation to reflect on the changed nature of labour practices and the ways that matter is transformed through digitisation, emphasising how all digital media is produced by, and dependent on, the physical world; the raw matter and toiling bodies that make ‘the cloud’ happen.
