Watery Horizon

“WATERY HORIZON” has existed in multiple ever-changing formats and contexts over the last year, from 3D-CGI filmography, to a text-based manifesto, performance, visuals in club-spaces and interactive installation. “WATERY HORIZON” hopes to explore the unique relationships we have with our bodies, identities and the Internet, simultaneously appreciating and critiquing the various fetishistic and self-destructive avatars and iterations of ourselves that we forge and perform as on the Internet. It has been created using a series of distorted and dismembered digital meshes, sculpted with the artist’s physical body as reference. These sensationalised, eroticised 3D-CGI forms undergo a series of transformative dis/configurations (growing hair and then shedding it, turning into high-gloss metallic cyborgs, shattering, denting, melding into fluid…) which are both fascinating and (…sort of) horrific to witness. It is partly inspired by; the practices of ancient queer-centric quasi-religions, experiences of euphoric queer actualisation, the ephemerality of space (particularly the queer club space; as a vehicle for encounter), the prospect (and realities) of machine-learning and machine-informed practice, and the daunting mysticism of the impending metaverse on the approaching watery horizon

WATERY HORIZON, 3D-CGI (computer-generated-animation) Filmography 1080x1920px, 21 min 01 sec (loop)

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