south florida sky

Digitally composed 16mm film

MP4

00:07:24

2022

Edition of 3 + 2 AP

£6,000

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Film excerpt below

‘south florida sky’ imagines comic hero Swamp Thing, present in physical form; rendered fluid, enmeshed within the biologically diverse space of the swamp. Reanimating and paying homage to the hand-drawn context and providing a queered unravelling of the character. This process of disidentification portrays both the swamp and the body as a site of radical interconnectivity. 

The work generates a network, a swamp of queered collectivity beyond the two artists. Drawing from natural systems of interconnectedness:  mycelium networks, siphonophores, the primordial ooze; the project rejects individualised modes of production and favours a polyphonic approach.

Partially generated by GAN, a machine-learning framework fed images of Swamp Thing, wetlands, fungus and slime; semi-recognisable forms congeal and re-submerge in a digital mire, morphing into new configurations. 

Captured using 16mm yet digitally produced, the work embodies José Esteban Muñoz’s call for utopian performativity: ‘a conjuring of both future and past to critique presentness.’