Osteogenesis

What is a body?
What is bodily experience?
How will future bodies interact with the world?

'A Future in Clay'

5-8 May 2022

NITJA, Lillestrøm

The ceramic sculpture for' Osteogenesis' was exhibited at NITJA gallery in Lillestrøm, Norway as part of a group exhibition.

I assisted with media creation for the exhibition, and marketing materials for NITJA.

I also led a corresponding kid's workshop weekend (ages 4+) with Anna Riksheim Melby at NITJA Lillestrøm as an addition to the exhibition.

There were over 40 participants of various ages.

Inspiration: Perception of the Body

'While the body’s relation to the world serves as the essential background for the experience of any particular thing, the body itself is experienced in ways that distinguish it […] from all other things: it is a permanent part of one’s perceptual field, even though one cannot in principle experience all of it directly; [only a] kinaesthetic sense of its own movements is given directly.'

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, (2002) Phenomenology of Perception.
London: New York Routledge.

Ceramics and 3D Scanning

For this project I was interested in perception and future bodies.

Given the indirect digital perception of current bodies,

I incorporated 3D scanning into my process; after creating a future body as ceramic sculpture (with no defined base), I scanned the sculpture and reanimated the digital scan as a video (below). The video was presented as a QR code (right), so viewers at the exhibition could scan it and perceive the ceramic body from a digital distance.

How does digital distance affect our understanding of a body?