The true knowledge which is developed is controlled within a model (scientific method) and structure whose engagement with the physical world is rational and logical.
However, the source for the development of information and knowledge is not a rational abstract body, but a physiological and psychological entity, whose social and personal exchanges shape the form of this knowledge.
Here the work, as both object/sculpture and performative activity questions a relationship with the viewer, and with this knowledge, as fixed and relational. A space in which to make and ask questions, to comply or resist our control of our own reflection within the structure presented.
This work was made after an eighteen month period of research at various cleanroom facilities and manufacturers; OLATS (European Space Agency), Marseilles, France; Pfizer Research Europe, (Biotech), UK ; and Envair, cleanroom manufacturer.Cleanroom - 5m x 5m cleanroom (class 10,000) with 400 complete volume changes per hour. Contains single arylic and neon sculpture on felt base.
Description of elements
Cleanroom 5m x 5m (class 10,000) containing acryic sculpture with neon on felt base (Rosebud)
Viewers enter if wearing protective apparell (full cleanroom bunnysuit) as supplied. With changing benches.
Gallery
16 x A3 wall drawings mounted in lightboxes.
Hand engineered steel harmonograph (victorian drawing machine - an analogue computer using single algorithm) contained within inflatable drawing room
Felt covered isolator and figure
Inflated pressurised cell with figure
