Venus Anadyomene
Verity Birt / Richard Forbes-Hamilton / Holly Graham
3 channel video installation and collaborative performance. Venus Anadyomene is part of ongoing and collaborative research on methods of de-colonising histories, feminist narrative and collective voice.
Part of Altai in Residence; Experiments in Collective Practice Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art 27th Jan- 17th Feb 2017.
slippery between the rocks / suds between thumb and forefinger / slippery between rock and earth / rubble and dust / slippages / and earth / devices and mechanisms / to petrify / to get on top of things / that bit / the restless one / dig it up / where you're standing / dig it up / from below / is it his?
try it / try it / try it
we are not doing this because we want to / just the perpetual care-taking / a sober reality / of the museum / there is no alternative / of human history / sorry but we have to
sorry / sorry / but
alternations of generations / inherent traits / inherited states
look down / under it / under the crust / the membrane / iron, carbon / call, response / feed-back - feed-off the civilized refrain
rings within rings within rings within rings within rings within rings within rings within rings
plugged in / into / into it, into the membrane, the belly / too big to see / stains of gelled secretion
bruises on the sediment–on the crust
deep welts deep time
deep welts deep time
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