FELTDARK: GAIL HOCKING (SA) - SHIFTING INTERIOR CAVITIES

Screening from 8:00pm - Wednesday, 1st February

Running - 2nd February - 18th February 2017

FELTdark is viewable: Wed - Sat: 6pm - 12am, Fri: 7pm - 12am

Shifting Interior Cavities is an ephemeral in-situ work that examines the possibility of matters’ performative power to affect ones’ own subjectivity in relation to identity and cultural construction.  Each ice cavity held the percentage of water contained in my body. The wall formation was an attempt to denote boundaries that could be repositioned due to an awareness of the surrounding forces that affect and are affecting us. The intention of the work was to explore the body/materiality/nature as a performative participant to initiate an awareness of an ongoing interconnection. Through the documentation of the work I hoped to activate the way we are interconnected in relation to each other. This activation could raise an awareness of the interrelatedness of bodies and non-human forces to develop new modes of existence and create an alternate way of ‘being’ in the world.

Video Documentation credit: Peter Drew

Shifting Terrains - A Quiet Disturbance - Gail Hocking (SA) Apr 2015

Opening - 6:00 PM - Wednesday, 1st of April

Artist Talk - 5:30 PM

Running - 1 Apr 2015 - 18 Apr 2015

I am interested in the phenomenon of migration in the complexity with which it affects the human being. As a migrant and nomad having lived in culturally diverse societies, I feel I am in constant negotiation between places without belonging to either.

In adapting to new cultures and environments there is an oscillating process between the known and unknown, insider and outsider, displacement and connection that operates together until they come to rest within a form of hybrid identity. A shift occurs in the interior landscape.

My current investigation is related to how environments impact and transform the forms of life they accommodate and how they themselves are impacted. The process of transformation could be considered as an evolving state that is acquired through assimilating change even when the change subsides.

Shifting Terrains is a sculptural dialogue that attempts to describe the imprinting of displacement at the point of transition that creates a subtle disturbance.

(Above) Image: Gail Hocking, Caught within a slippage, Plaster/Latex, 15 x 9cm

Image Credit: Nu Image