My art practice springs from an urge to "unfix" in an interdisciplinary approach. I look upon my materials as processes, seeking threads of connections in the boundaries between information and transformation. My work involves time-based and other combined media, installation, video and sound, photography, drawing and research.
Particularly over the last few years, my preoccupation with practice-led fine art research has involved an engagement with machinic spaces as a way to investigate notions of "territory" and respond to different issues of deterritorialisation and dislocation. I developed the term Ground Erasure as a conceptual framework for integrative research exploring the reterritorialising strategies of the contemporary artist operating with technology, reconciling Virilio's "accident" and Deleuzean "lines of flight" with Lature's "actor-network" machine-human relationships. It is the liminal zones between destratification and restratification - creating an abstract topology of intersections on the plateau - that inspired a context for Ground Erasure. This research (2001-05) led to a stream of productions compounding meanings of territory evoked in geographical and historical erasures.
I now continue to explore topics of land and territory in my work. Connectivity continues to inspire my interest in relation to the cultural expression of the digital platform shaping and informing contemporary art.
