Haunting the Future is an immersive, multi-media installation that uses myth to speculate about possible worlds. Boats representing potential future imaginaries float above a Garden of the Future. The boats are composed of different materials and pose as vessels for present-day myth making and imagining different futures. The garden also acts as a metaphor drawing upon various histories, myths and symbolisms. The earth underfoot is unsettled by the upside-downness of boats in the sky and a cosmic pool within the garden. Viewers can walk around and through the work. They can situate themselves through sensation and discovery and the resonance and symbolism of myth to imagine their own possible future.
Sky, Sea, Earth: Woven Futures, 2024
“Sky, Sea, Earth: Woven Futures” represents a prologue to Haunting the Future. This work follows a non-linear format and consists of a research narrative, vignettes from my own history, fact-based field notes, poetry and images. These elements act as strata, referencing Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas, creating layers to consider and experiment with. As such, the document can be read in many ways. Readers may dip into any part of it, create a narrative from multiple strata, peruse each stratum as a whole, for example all the poems or the vignettes, or read the document from start to finish.
