“Knowing does not come from standing at a distance and representing but rather from a direct material engagement with the world. Matter and meaning are not separate elements. They are inextricably fused together, and no event, no matter how energetic, can tear them asunder."

Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe half-way

 

Acts of doing and making are a form of thinking. Through processes of experimentation, creating, destroying, trial and error and iteration, insights reveal themselves in ways that abstract reasoning alone do not. From here theories can emerge about how systems function, how meaning is produced, or how change occurs. In this way, knowledge is often produced through practise. 

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For our practise this has led to different types of knowledge building. These include theories around the nature of matter; relationships between the physical and social landscape; the role of artists as experts; understanding nativism and populism in material terms; and AAA theory - how we have entered an age of artificially accelerated abstractification. 

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Below are some examples where this research has been publicly explored.

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