Subtle bodies: transcorporeal becoming in threshold realms

‘Subtle bodies: transcorporeal becoming in threshold realms’ is an immersive exhibition of sculptural objects, image and sound. The works incorporate copper, velvet, organza, glass and stone.

The installation is part of a multi-year research project exploring the felt, intuitive and sensory processes that are shared across the liminal zones of encounter within both landscape and artmaking. The work has a particular focus on highlighting and activating the stretch of becoming that unfolds within the relational exchanges between human and non-human entities, materials, and atmospheres.

During this project Michaela established sensitised relationships with the threshold landscapes of dusk and the Australian desert, and developed unique hybrid materials that resonate with the sensory dynamics of these encounters through their own distinctive means. The primary material she created is a threshold in itself, a metal-textile hybrid developed by growing copper into velvet and organza through electroforming.

Michaela has worked in highly explorative ways to develop material languages as a way of exploring and activating the embodied qualities, tones and temporalities that constitute the intimate fabric of relations between the sensing being, the natural world and the art object. Through her work she brings to light the becoming that coheres us within what seems to lie beyond us, and the liminal spaces of unknowing that allow these transformations to take place.