Temporary Shows: MoMA
Visionary engineer and author R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was a World Fellow in Residence for the University City Science Center during the last decade of his life. One of his many books, "I Seem To Be A Verb", a commentary on then-modern life, expresses his fluid notion of subjectivity as located in universal processes, rather than in a fixed idea of individuality. My project suspends his text in a vertical spiral over the river, referencing Fuller's explorations in the dynamics of change.
I Seem To Be A Verb
ref. R. Buckminster Fuller
Artist Statement
My work of the past 10 years has explored the subject, “I”, as a dynamic, fragmentary, emergent instance of sound, image, movement and touch. Using sensing and tracking technologies, these installation and performance projects take input from voice and movement and translate the information into lyrical, narrative, cinematic, or sonic streams, which accompany the live body. Some of these projects have pointedly questioned: What is the self? How is the self formed as a social reflection? What is the self as a phenomenon, existing in and around representation
Sarah Drury
Ongoing Shows: VPAP: Philadelphia Monument #TLE-001 Cargo Veiled Presence 3D Anamorph Mirrored City Symmetry and Growth
Ongoing Shows: VPAP: Philadelphia Monument #TLE-001 Cargo Veiled Presence 3D Anamorph Mirrored City Symmetry and Growth
Artist Website: www.sarahdrury.net
Other Artist in the show:
Shirley Steele Colleen Rudolf Vincent Romaniello Sarah Drury Rachel Ehrgood Tim Bowman Nancy Agati Hana Iverson
I am excited to bring the exploration of the fluid self into the real space of augmented reality. Buckminster Fuller proposed architectural innovations that draw on systems concepts for a transformed vision of human capacities and infrastructure. His statement “I seem to be a verb” implies this non-material, transformative experience of subjectivity. My piece places Fuller’s fluid idea of self amid the flux of the highly mobile intersection of the river, the train station, an the arterial flow of traffic on Market Street.