The far future – associations with deep time, which I have been looking at through rocks
Fake rocks – the creation of fake rocks makes people (hopefully) have to assess the difference between the two, question more deeply what they’re looking at
The primary difference is their materiality and the time/processes that made them
Can an object retain stories and traces of its creation?
Also medal project – looking at the importance of bronze, its associations with the landscape and its importance in our deep history
‘Time takes its name from materials’ – what future materials will there be and what impact might it have on society?
Or what materials do we have now that will leave a long-lasting mark – plastic
Link to cling film rocks? Plastic smothering stone
Feedback:
- “plastic as an anthropological signifier”
- trickery/playfulness
- replacing something in nature – stainless steel tree stump, create a folklore, creating fake archaeology
- the uncanny encounter with the double – ideas of infinite, time and scale, looking at the idea of the singular as opposed to the vast
- Damien Hirst burying exhibition – https://hyperallergic.com/391158/damien-hirst-treasures-from-the-wreck-of-the-unbelievable-venice-punta-della-dogana-palazzo-grassi/
- Liv Gravil – https://www.livgravil.co.uk/
- light years – light as a deep time material, looking back in time
Anna Harris 