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This is the first collaboration between the artists Rebecca Weeks and Ian Whitford as part of 'Something Like Spit'. Weeks and Whitford have worked together as 'Artdept' since 2003.
Weeks and Whitford present a video installation that explores the tension and overlap between the manmade and the natural and between the designed and lived environment.
Through a pedestrian observation of the layers of construction, decay and regeneration within Penzance and the edge where these processes meet organic subjects Weeks and Whitford reframe the work of builders, landscapers, and the activities of people in general in relation to their environment and the natural world. This reframing poses questions about how we understand the natural and man made worlds as in a static dichotomy and suggests we think of building and landscaping beyond functionality as creative acts. It also suggests we understand nature as active not passive within a unified environment which encompasses us. Their enquiry also highlights the meaning that is to be found in flux, in the marginal, in the discarded, in the rawness between destruction and creation between nature and the manmade.
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