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RA Walden
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  1. 23 astronauts at varying distances from a black hole
  2. the universe is a clock
  3. Crip Ecologies (2024)
  4. earth again being a body
  5. time, building itself, adagio
  6. access points // or // alternative states of matter(ing)
  7. feladŷifâ / feladŷi
  8. Crip Ecologies (2022)
  9. science fiction is not pretend
  10. ẍây ithřa: a pledge
  11. a slow and burning hope
  12. Structures of Care
  13. -o-:06:19
  14. Notes From The Underlands
  15. My Body Is The House That I Live In
  16. Remedial Geologies IV
  17. My Body Was A River
  18. Primer
  19. Border Crossings // I Am Here
  20. Potential Future Performances
  21. Remedial Geologies III 
  22. Crip Ecologies (2018)
  23. Utopias (IRL//URL)


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earth again being a body (2024)



Image Credit: Jules Lister
Photographed at Grundy Gallery, UK, for ‘object transformations through the coordinate of time’, 2024, RA Walden 


earth again being a body

pewter

Positioned at various points around the gallery spaces are over 500 small sculptures. To make these the artist created moulds using ‘wormcasts’ ie. the small heaps of muddy soil ejected from the digestive tract of some species of earthworm. The moulds were then filled with liquid pewter and left to solidfy.

Earthworms play an important part in maintaining a healthy soil ecosystem and positively contribute to the conditions needed for food production. ‘earth again being a body’ elevates the essential, but often overlooked natural processes on which human beings rely. By casting them in pewter, the artist is also creating an archive and a permanent record of a particular series of moments in time.

Text by Paulette Brien



 

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