Perdita Phillips Information

A significant commissioned essay by Amy Cutler about geologically themed projects from 2018-2020. in Phillips booklet of thrombolites, pseudo-fossils and quorum sensing, these tracings explode out of any over-arching museological or scientific fidelity. She creates propositions which pull always toward the invisible outsides of any disciplined act of remembrance. An essay on the -ing project about carrying and weeding that was undertaken as part of the know thy neighbour project by Spaced. Deliberately, however slowly, Phillips projects such as ing cultivate a sense of belonging and caring. ing inspires awareness of natural networks and systems beneath our individual and collective ecological footprint. ing interrogates what sustainability is by returning to the hard questions we face in entangled times. The ing project is equally about actions, states, and occurrences of perception and movement of walking, wading, watching, wondering, weeding, worrying and wording: small collective actions of community-based caring amount to environmental stewardship. Where all mattering is collaboration, the important question is no longer: is this a collaboration? but rather: what does this collaboration do? What is at stake? What proliferates, and what disappears? Within the flips and the folds, pollen collaborations also insist that difference still matters. Neimanis, A., & ((pollen)) collaborators. (2014). collaboration is airborne . In L. Adams, R. Newman-Storen, & C. Kueh (Eds.), InConversation (pp. 65-70). Mt Lawley: Edith Cowan University. The Another Time Table artwork was overall runner up. This is a cohesive and thought provoking work which has been beautifully executed. In some ways the materials reference the mould-making process through the use of gauze and bandages; these are also reminiscent of bodily injury and of discarded materials, connecting the work to the body and human activity, and serving as a reminder that we are linked to the natural world. There is a sense of playfulness and quaintness in this ...