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James Brady
Drift (negative / positive)
Drift is a series of site-specific, organic, performative earthworks (outdoors and indoors); it is made entirely of fallen leaves from deciduous native and non-native trees. Ever-shifting in its form, this work will be realised in the three main public parks across the city, and also in the Gaia Cabinet project space. The objective of this artwork is to raise an increased consciousness and understanding of trees as crucial elements in the ecological system of the city (particularly the wildlife they sustain).
Drift: negative is created and performed in the parks. These are ephemeral drawings / paths / routes / shadows / meetings. Collected material.
Drift: positive is created and performed in Gaia Cabinet. This is a 'displacement' - an intervention into a natural system / interactive / nostalgic / evocative.
In its basic form Drift emphasises the materiality (physical qualities) of trees. Drift is a celebration of the regenerative and self-sustaining systems of nature, which in the urban context also suggests a metaphorical parallel with that of Liverpool: a city that has undergone centuries of change and years of regeneration socially, economically and in its built environment. However through this dialectic of ‘city and nature’ the inevitable question will always arise; exactly how sustainable can a city actually be?
Conceptually and aesthetically this artwork (art)-historically alludes to specific works by Robert Smithson, Richard Long, Walter de Maria, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Drift embraces the grammar of minimalism.
The third and final part of Drift takes place on the final day of the URBAN/ECOLOGY project. The leaves are removed from the Gaia Cabinet and put back into a different part of the ecological system from which they were taken. A performative and symbolic act. A ritual. A personal rite. This collected organic material is given to the River Mersey....
Drift is a series of site-specific, organic, performative earthworks (outdoors and indoors); it is made entirely of fallen leaves from deciduous native and non-native trees. Ever-shifting in its form, this work will be realised in the three main public parks across the city, and also in the Gaia Cabinet project space. The objective of this artwork is to raise an increased consciousness and understanding of trees as crucial elements in the ecological system of the city (particularly the wildlife they sustain).
Stanley Park Sefton Park Birkenhead Park
Drift: negative is created and performed in the parks. These are ephemeral drawings / paths / routes / shadows / meetings. Collected material.
Drift: positive is created and performed in Gaia Cabinet. This is a 'displacement' - an intervention into a natural system / interactive / nostalgic / evocative.
In its basic form Drift emphasises the materiality (physical qualities) of trees. Drift is a celebration of the regenerative and self-sustaining systems of nature, which in the urban context also suggests a metaphorical parallel with that of Liverpool: a city that has undergone centuries of change and years of regeneration socially, economically and in its built environment. However through this dialectic of ‘city and nature’ the inevitable question will always arise; exactly how sustainable can a city actually be?
Conceptually and aesthetically this artwork (art)-historically alludes to specific works by Robert Smithson, Richard Long, Walter de Maria, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Drift embraces the grammar of minimalism.
The third and final part of Drift takes place on the final day of the URBAN/ECOLOGY project. The leaves are removed from the Gaia Cabinet and put back into a different part of the ecological system from which they were taken. A performative and symbolic act. A ritual. A personal rite. This collected organic material is given to the River Mersey....
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