Why shipping containers? What is their relevance to my practice?
In that I don’t have a pre-existing practice, I am using shipping containers as jumping off point to explore the question of what I am interested in; they are not really the subject of the work, but more a foundation to begin to frame my exploration of my own practice as it begins to emerge.
In essence, what I am doing is taking areas of general interest and using them to create a brief for my work. For example in the context of Histories and Futures, the shipping container as a subject creates for me, 4 areas of (continuing) research and critical analysis; Speed (nature?), Hidden (purpose?), Network (process?) and Object (method?). The application for this piece, and the accompanying documentation predominantly explored the first aspect of this - Speed; it modelled the process of shipping goods by container ship, but for digital documents, to expose the relationship between our perception of the ‘digital era’ and the physical reality of 90+% of the goods we consume being shipped slowly by container and ship.
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