Conference presentation
Concrescence
BEAPworks Exhibition 06 (John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 21/07/2005–15/09/2005)
2005
Abstract
The installation Concrescence enables participants to accumulate virtual objects onto their shadow, generating hybrid compositions of subjects, objects and sounds Concrescence is a term used in biology and refers to the growing together of related parts or growth by the increase of the addition of particles. Similarly the term is also employed by the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead to designate the growing together of diverse elements into a newly evolving entity, that never fully congeals.
Likewise, the installation Concrescence is a metaphor for the hybrid combinations of object and subject that are formed through a lifetime of intimate relations with objects: where do we start and where do they begin?. Marx defined human social relations as constructed through relationships we have with commodities. Likewise, the collective force of social, economic and personal interaction with these "economic cell forms" (commodities) changes the identity and meaning of both objects and subjects. Concrescence suggests that the relationships that we have with objects are far more mutable and intricate, inevitably involving many more materials, ideas and agencies than current definitions of subjects or objects can explain.
Details
- Title
- Concrescence
- Authors/Creators
- M. A. Cypher - Murdoch University, Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems
- Conference
- BEAPworks Exhibition 06 (John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 21/07/2005–15/09/2005)
- Identifiers
- 991005546764507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
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