Stringskips reference 18th century hachuring techniques and the celebrated Dufourkarten (a military topographical survey of Switzerland completed in 1862).
The architectural landscape of CERN is re-presented as a series of speculative graphs, re-implacing the geographical location of the large hadron collider.
CERN sites are re-implaced as handdrawn litho-graphs evoking a speculative response. The residency draws upon technical knowledge gained in 2008; to realise a series of stone lithos at the Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium.
As the European hybrid (tilia x europaea) eclipses the English (tilia cordata) lime tree, the branches act as a repoussoir guiding the eye into the scene. The black board, a familiar instrument of rote, demands participation.
Lewis Carroll's nonsense literature became a forerunner to Dada and realised original forms of literary and scientific types of perception. A collection of artist's books in response to the narrative’s complex yet playful ideas of spacetime, logic and the language of science.
The text pieces reference speculative terminology to construct forced afterimages. The excel patterns are printed as luminous multilayered screenprints alluding to the visual display of statistics used by computer software.
A cartesian graph documents a discourse between scientist and artist. Semi-erased chalk markings relate to remnants of past discourses and extend the temporal narrative. Exhibited as part of Planchette and presented in a mechanical display device or "Pagivolt".
Using the medium of photography and the visual display of statistics used by computer software, the project aims to re-implace the landscape of the Quartier Nord to evoke a speculative response.
Speculative Progress is a critical analysis of the practice of science. It is my conviction that CERN's current heightened moment of scientific engagement reflects Walter Benjamin's cairologic perspective and should be visualised from a sociopolitical context.
Using Marseille's "Affichage Libre Expression", the proposal will display arbitrary social data. FR6438 facilitates cultural exchanges between Marseille and the Anglosphere in preparation for Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture.
