Abstract
Presented research from Becoming Hybrid: Re-imagining Sculptural Practice in the Context of a Queer Ecology at the MIND THE GAP! Postgraduate Research Showcase ( 21 May 2025).
The talk addressed the gap between extractive sculptural traditions and sustainable, posthuman approaches, discussing how hybrid bodily entities evolve through co-creation with more-than-human forces.
Two accompanying non-textual works — [un]bound entity and Companion Species (garden fox) — were exhibited. Constructed from recycled and locally sourced materials, [un]bound entity evokes a “chthonic one” emerging from Haraway’s speculative Terrapolis, while Companion Species documents an interspecies encounter evidencing multispecies entanglement.
Together, the presentation and artworks reframed sculpture as a collaborative, ecological, and queer act of endurance and transformation.
The talk addressed the gap between extractive sculptural traditions and sustainable, posthuman approaches, discussing how hybrid bodily entities evolve through co-creation with more-than-human forces.
Two accompanying non-textual works — [un]bound entity and Companion Species (garden fox) — were exhibited. Constructed from recycled and locally sourced materials, [un]bound entity evokes a “chthonic one” emerging from Haraway’s speculative Terrapolis, while Companion Species documents an interspecies encounter evidencing multispecies entanglement.
Together, the presentation and artworks reframed sculpture as a collaborative, ecological, and queer act of endurance and transformation.
| Original language | English |
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| Type | Invited presentation and non-textual exhibition at Mind the Gap! Postgraduate Research Showcase, exploring hybrid sculptural practice, queer ecology, and posthuman approaches to materiality and making. |
| Media of output | Artist Presentation and non-textual artworks |
| Publication status | Published - 21 May 2025 |
Keywords
- posthumanism
- Queer Ecology
- sculpture
- photography
- mind the gap
- Research
- Conference Summary