Resonant forms [Multimedia exposition]

Abstract

This Exposition documents my research across media and the struggles I at times face with aligning the various artistic practices that I undertake. I approach this initially through the notion of resonance as a metaphor.

The paper that originally defined the topic of this exposition explores resonance not only as an acoustic or affective phenomenon but as a critical and sculptural strategy within contemporary artistic research. Drawing from my hybrid practice ranging across sculpture, software-based systems, intermedia installation, and tattooing, I argue for a continued reconceptualisation of sculpture as an event, a force, and a site of transformative encounter. More specifically this exposition attempts to align my practice as a tattoo practitioner with that of a sculptor. Whilst I have lived with this "contradiction" without problems through my artistic career. Tattooing has always been placed on the back burner academically, as there is no real academic discourse on tattooing as an artistic practice, nor any real fora for discussing this. In my work, however, both as a sculptor and as an academic, tattooing has been a solid foundation that has a very strong influence on my approaches and aesthetic considerations.