/ˌɛm.brɪ.oʊˈlɒdʒɪk/ occupied overlooked spaces, intertwining historical and modern infrastrucural overlays, creating a symbiotic relationship between the works and the building’s solar-powered systems. These installations mirrored the wiring, tubing, and frameworks, drawing energy from the host like a parasite to sustain the conceptual focus on hyperobjects—ecological collapse and technogenesis.

The screens, embedded within rafters, ducts, and stairwells, acted as portals to meontic space, flickering between external vitality and virtuality. They captured the shifting dynamics between organic and inorganic, transmuting ecological collapse through the lens of technogenesis. Drawing parallels to Jussi Parikka’s ideas of technological entanglement and Samuel Bainchini’s Snakeable, the works lengthy tentacular wiring snaked among cables that interlace through the infrastructure, challenging perceptions of the parastite and the epiphyte.

As viewers navigated the installations, they encountered with ecological collapse and technogenesis entwined in a mutual, parasitic relationship. These unseen forces are always present, subtly reshaping space and demanding a rethinking of boundaries between the organic, synthetic, and the meontic void. /ˌɛm.brɪ.oʊˈlɒdʒɪk/ revealed flickers of nothingness and vitality, forcing us to confront the interwoven realities of hyperobjects that shape our world.


 

Forrest Beasley-Birch acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which he works, the Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. He pays respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.





































     
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