s Unit 1.2 drew to a close, we were encouraged to think more about audiencing – who our idea audiences are, ways to reach them, and alternative places that our art can be shown other than a white box gallery.
Over the months I’ve also been thinking about how to try to distil my MA research and learnings into something that is digestible and understandable for a wider audience. I also thought about the fact that I’ve hardly used social media at all to communicate my research and work.
This video aims at communicating the main message of my art and research without getting bogged down in the details:
The writeup that goes alongside the video:
I am investigating interconnectedness and entanglement using practice-based research to see whether, when making art directly with stardust ingredients, I can replicate feelings of interconnectedness. The title of my most recent Contextual Essay which aptly describes my practice is Encounters with the Cosmos – using Stardust to investigate Interconnectedness and Entanglement: an interdisciplinary, post-humanist investigation intersecting Philosophy, Astrophysics, Natural History, Geometry, Metaphysics, Cosmology and Art.
My art practice and research have developed organically throughout the course and currently combines meditative journeying, channeling with stardust elements from the Periodic Table, as well as making with and making about the story of stardust.
The overarching message that has come out of this research is that everything and everyone is connected – us, other species, non-species, the plants, the sand, the oceans, the atmosphere and the cosmos. What connects us is that we are made of the same atomic elements, most of which were formed in the cosmos as a result of dying stars – we quite literally come from stardust. The elements in our bodies are older than earth itself.
Through this research I hope to find a way to help people feel more connected.
Debbie New 