Abstract / Description of output
This exhibition of works by Christine Ellison included the first screening of a documentary short: something is Happening (2023), alongside graphics scores, drawings, animations and research material. The body of work aims to deconstruct digital screen interfaces, and mine them for performative potential. Signs and mechanisms of interaction are recontextualised in paper objects and stop-animations that reframe and reposition everyday micro actions, such as scrolling, cropping, dragging. These objects then become starting points for conversations, workshops and performances with collaborators from different fields and disciplines.
The research draws on historic performance and intermedia strategies, specifically Fluxus scores and Allan Kaprow’s Happenings, that pull apart systems in order to challenge and provoke new thinking. Hummingbirds and Hamburgers is an invitation to reclaim the language of the interface from the homogenising forces of bureaucracy and marketisation, to generate new agency with the everyday.
The research draws on historic performance and intermedia strategies, specifically Fluxus scores and Allan Kaprow’s Happenings, that pull apart systems in order to challenge and provoke new thinking. Hummingbirds and Hamburgers is an invitation to reclaim the language of the interface from the homogenising forces of bureaucracy and marketisation, to generate new agency with the everyday.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Mar 2023 |