Exposition

Peripheral Alacrity - Animation as entry into non-human temporalities (last edited: 2023)

Devon Pardue
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About this exposition

A master's thesis culminating in a project called Peripheral Alacrity; an audiovisual animation installation utilizing animation at 60fps to investigate the temporal relationship between us and fast-moving organisms on the edges of our senses. My work is informed by a deeply rooted interest and curiosity in the biological sciences and uses ideas found therein to explore the complicated relationships between humans and the rest of the living world. I became particularly interested in the perception of time across species and the potential for animation to serve as an axis into nonhuman temporalities. How are our relationships with other organisms impacted by our bodies' unique temporality? Fast-living invertebrates like insects are of particular importance because their crucial role in a healthy ecosystem forces us to reconcile with our particular disdain for their speed and our desire for control over our surroundings. That desire to oversee and pin down a version of nature that is ideologically pure has roots in Europatriarchal power structures, so I sought to create a space to recontextualize these encounters as they naturally are in our day-to-day life. The work seeks to capture this particular interaction characterized by fleeting peripheral glimpses of fast-living organisms; from dragonflies to some we only see as a passing blur, and all the abstractions in between. You’re interrupted by a flash of motion and sound from the corner of your eye and by the time you crane your head to look, it is already gone. It is less about seeing, and more about our desire-to-see creating an asymmetrical dance between the viewer and the fleeting subject.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsanimation, temporality, temporal resolution, time based media, Time perception, ecology, non-human movement, non-human, human-animal-interactions, Installation Art
date25/08/2022
last modified19/04/2023
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightDevon Pardue
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1721829/1721830


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