We Are Lichen
unspeakable contingencies & other micrographia, 2012-14
Shown at “Image Des Femmes, 21st Edition”, Galerie Mile End, (group), Montreal, QC, 2014
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Lichens are formed of fungus and algae, each one retaining their individual identity when enmeshed and bound together - two unique structures, in a symbiotic relationship, join to form a singular, cohesive organism. Inspired by this natural phenomenon, this piece unfolds in nine movements, each a phase of the lichen life cycle.
Commonly used phrases, idioms, and cliché, are remixed into slightly altered contexts, creating new contingency of language. Fragments infused by the hyper-personal, weave together an impenetrable inner world with undercurrents of political and social consciousness - decongesting the polarity between the two, generating a confused and re-fused new meaning. The written content is nested within crochet, branches and eggshells, sound, paper and fibre webbings and vacuoles that act as a host, providing a container/ “page” upon and in which the text is imbedded. |
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Printed on acetate, the text flirts with transparency: transparency as in full exposure, transparency as in invisibility. The auditory dimension, the spoken text along with the vocal soundscape whispers from within through tiny microphones. The text, as texture, is printed also in traditional form, (ink on paper) and placed in legible physicality as a referent.
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A Surface/surfspace/interface: a transient archive/collection/constellation of exposure exposing transparency, a membrane seeking transparency - transparency, as in candid, as in invisible, a series of vacuoles/voids, an organless, dis-organized organism with no internal organizing
principle, no centralized governance, no operative mechanism of
production. a de-generative, immortal a-mmoral genealogy, overcoming origins, no mother. no father, an
unproductive ground zero/neutral territory over which production is (out)sourced form elsewhere, projected arenas of subterranean unrest, arcades of curiosity and boredom, content-less, container, contained in schisms/ruptures/breaks - all become-ing fluid, interchangeable, multifarious and rabid, cutting across and through both vertical and horizontal axes, an exquisite corpse/living cadaver/body of
work/construction site, an impermanent, permeable, lucid dream, the(g)host of exposed exposure/ mediated/recorded.
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