super/collider is delighted to share that we have been selected for the year long Spacer Climate Breakdown Residency 2021.
‘For over a decade, SPACER has been making work and transforming its studio practice in response to the Anthropocene. We are on a journey, learning how we can both mitigate climate breakdown and its impact, as well as adapt to our potential future.
So far, all our research and work has happened behind our studio doors, but we are ready to seek collaboration with those who are also responding to these existential threats.
Last month we asked if anyone would like to join our studio community for a year, to develop work in response to Thanet’s climate emergency.
We are thrilled to announce that after reading the many exciting applications, super/collider will be joining us from July 2021 until June 2022.
Artist duo – super/collider – (Louise Beer and Melanie King) – are based in Thanet. They work across the creative industries, exploring science from a pop cultural position – bringing its wonders to new audiences through public events, worldwide expeditions, self-published books and curated products.
Recently they have curated events with Science Museum, Ace Hotel, Soho House, TATE Britain, Second Home, Turner Contemporary and Faith In Strangers.
Louise uses installation, moving image, photography and sound to explore humanity’s evolving understanding of Earth’s environments and the cosmos. She creates objects and experiences that reflect the incomprehensible nature of reality, from the ocean floor to the night sky, in order to highlight humanity’s infancy of understanding of the cosmos and that we remain in a time where even the implausible is possible.
The purpose of Melanie’s research is to demonstrate the intimate connection between celestial objects (sun, moon, stars), photographic material and the natural world. Melanie is currently researching sustainable photographic processes, to minimise the environmental impact of her artistic practice and subsequently has been developing a body of work called ‘Submerged Landscapes’ – an ongoing project where she is documenting the areas of Thanet soon to be submerged, using the materiality of the sea within the production of the work.
super/collider propose to build on this work.
“We would like to work in the spirit of Donna Haraway’s concept of “Situated Knowledge”, using a number of different multi-sensory recording methods to explore the landscape. We would like to work reflexively, responding to the landscape as we find it and writing impressions of our experiences. We would like to “immerse” ourselves in the landscape and knit together our project slowly over time.”’