Process

The potential, and agency of this absorbent material

Process Pointing to Itself & Other Stories

Transitory and Emergent

Pulling out the Middle (Quietly)

Drawing out the Middle (Sideways Noisy)

Pulling out the Middle (Damp)

So what happens when i take the clothes horse out of the utility room?

Are they more at home with the stains that are left after our collaboration? I can’t find the language.

I explored the notion of being in the middle of something. The making, the materials, the theory. Flailing around in the middle of it all. Seemingly lost in the middle. Deleuze and Guattari talk about ending up in the middle. ‘The middle is by no means an average; on the contrary it is where things pick up speed’ Gilles Deleuze; Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (University of Minnesota Press; 2 edition (December 21, 1987)

Where is the bit where I let it go? I let it go but I have it on a leash.

As part of my exploration into this layered material, I planted a tissue roll into the soil and left it there for several days.

My making moved on again.

Artist Helen Marten in conversation with Artist Haim Steinbach in 2014

These objects made their way naturally into the collaborative performance involving Helen Marten Haim Steinbach and myself.

‘‘by allowing ideas to multiply at great speed until their mutual rhythms of both image and language arrived and found me somewhere else’’ Helen Marten.