Ground Up, 2023, Bamboo, hessian, beeswax, piezoelectric pads, internal electrical system
Ground Up, 2023, Bamboo, hessian, beeswax, piezoelectric pads, internal electrical system
Ground Up, 2023, Bamboo, hessian, beeswax, piezoelectric pads, internal electrical system
Ground Up, 2023, Bamboo, hessian, beeswax, piezoelectric pads, internal electrical system
Exploring the exchange of energy and action between audience to artwork, Ground Up materially models the fragile, interdependent, and entangled nature of our social, environmental, and personal ecologies. Seeking out optimistic modes of promoting collective environmental consciousness, the artwork visually and theoretically draws upon self-generating perpetual motion machines. By relying upon collective audience engagement to facilitate the artworks kineticism, it leaves little space for indifference towards the significance of combined participation and action when promoting sustainable development. Creating a juxtaposing narrative of merging biodegradable materials of ephemeral quality with more permanent and enduring renewable energy powered machinery, Ground Up addresses the innate intricacies and interdependence that each material has with the other to produce a system entirely yet equally dependent on every individual component that it is comprised of.
Although encouraging an appreciation of environmental consciousness sits at the core of this project, the generation of collective empathy, connection, and understanding is the foremost driver in achieving it.
Please note that viewers are invited to step on and interact with the circular pads on the gallery floor.
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Interested in exploring how the merging of disciplines can produce engaging outcomes, Bella Bardon investigates how artistic practices can create stimulating representations of system and service led design theory that promote environmental consciousness. Often creating works that mimic particular social and ecological dynamics of contemporary society, she draws upon material characteristics, associations, and functionality to help portray these relationships.