Nocturnality

About

Our everyday lives and domestic spaces support an ontology of difference, where life and matter are temporal and durational entanglements between humans and nonhumans exist in a constant flow of becoming. ‘Duration’ supports this transformation through a process of undoing and redoing, unravelling and making. Located in duration, this work focuses the nocturnal behaviour of creatures living in paradoxical spaces between the wild and the domestic - between notions of re-wilding and the destruction of ‘pests’, where the domain of molluscs and insects are extraordinary and fantastical worlds.

For Elizabeth Grosz (2011), duration is the field in which difference lives and plays itself out – the domain of becoming. ‘Duration’ is that which undoes, as well as makes. This unbecoming is the very motor of becoming. The work tests this concept of duration through a multiplicity of speeds, intensities, trajectories and sensations. The viewer is invited to become caught up in this alternative duration that has capacity to lure us into a web of becoming.