Auto Creative I: Nature Demised Resurrects (2017)

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‘Auto creative art is the art of change, movement, growth’

(Metzger,1996, p.60)

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'First we had nature.

And then came the Environment.

Environment is the smoke humanity has put on nature'

(Metzger,1996, p.1)
 

On the 25th Nov 2017, a group of 35 Thames21 volunteers counted 4,350 bottles in a three-hour litter pick at the Concrete Barges, Rainham, a large quantity of this plastic has only been used once. Plastic items to not break down they only break up into small pieces that often are ingested by small animals; the University of Ghent estimated that people eating shellfish are ingesting over 11,000 plastic fragments every year.

 

Set to a back drop of a recording of this record breaking bottle count, the performance uses painting gesture to play the tuned, recycled sound of plastic bottles and external synth modules. A performance to assert our need to reassess our own individual and collective contribution to the poisoning of natural habitats, and how a shift in perception and conscientiousness can find new uses for our waste.

 

   

A big thanks to:

Thames21

Portable Power Technology

Neonode

Dannii Guest