TIDAL DIALOGUES AND TRANSIT ZONES
- ongoing project -
TIDAL DIALOGUES develops as a trajectory from research-led fine art practice interrogating issues of territory and transboundary movement. This current project brings together various aspects of the geo-spatial - questioning the processes shaping space. Concepts stem from the politicisation and geography of the "line" between land and sea, examining the space where these two great archaeologies meet and remake each other as a metaphor to question notions of ownership and the remapping of land.
Here I am, before the sea. It is true it bears no message. But on the beach, what material for semiology..
(Roland Barthes - Mythologies)
Tide and time are conceptual measures for flux and geopolitical change. In this context, the "dialogue" between land and sea connects different philosophical dimensions: a scientific and spiritual dimension, wherein the edges of land shift with the vertical and horizontal pull of water at the behest of the moon and earth's own axis and gravity; and other socio-political dimensions, wherein the realities concerning the compulsion of human hold determine the way we border, defend and "regimentalise" space.
This research remains open and seeks to integrate various semiologies and signages which, beyond their politics, explore the edges of "drawing" where linearity maps out into motion - as in the diagramatic timeline of a video ediiting programme, a shifting shoreline (see sealand), and other "migratory" lines.. be they the trail of a plane, of a ship, of fleeing émigrés (see zoni).. or indeed, the strategic line of a satellite "gaze"..
sealand and zoni are installation works created as part of this ongoing project.
