porthmeor residency | Uselessdoughnuts

Residency at Porthmeor studios

6 of us were awarded a one month residency in the summer of 2018 in studio 5 at Porthmeor studios, St Ives, Cornwall.

I used this opportunity to experiment and explore the idea of a future civilisation - what climate and ecological issues they might face, what artefacts they might leave behind and how they might beam information, insights and idea to us from the future.
I spent a lot of time collecting waste materials from skips, the shore and the pavement, and new from the DIY store as there wasn't a shop for materials.

systems,
solar flares,
surveillance,
technology,
standing stones,
water,
fire,
snakes,
alchemy,
natural and renewable energies,
new ways to collect energy,
clean energy,
waste materials,
DIY,
edible plants,
talking to stones,
sending messages to the sky,
interpreting messages from the sky

This experience led to new work around energy creation, transfer, conservation.

i experimented in making voltaic cells (basic batteries) from bacteria, devices to measure telluric currents (the earths natural electric current), rewiring satellites to detect the sun and motion with arduino, processes of fermentation with kombucha and sauerkraut, and aerobic bacterial energy in compost.

conductivity, tensions, unearthliness between materials.

Raw powder forms, glossed oven baked compressed disk, broken. soft honey-bowl touch cinnamon stick, transceives spice; sweet tenderness.

copper antennae charged particle entanglements form balance delicate movements of energies; warmth water wakeful inert semi conductive alloys broth miso volcanic isotope sludge

thrown and hand built ceramics, lumps of mining waste, copper wire, hibiscus-stained fabric, recently made dowsing rods, wooden plank found on a building site

possible artefacts