Sacred Object Mary Mattingly

Mattingly combines photography performance portable architecture and sculptural ecosystems into poetic visions of adaptation and survival.

Sacred object mary mattingly. Pipelines across permafrost 2020. Ecology nomadic living and community participation are central to mary mattingly s collaborative projects. Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability climate change and displacement. Triple island her next collaborative work will open july 20 on pier 42 in lower manhattan.

The subjective and culturally specific nature of belief means that sacred trash can take many different forms for even everyday items can be considered sacred or holy by the discarder. Mary mattingly s work collapses boundaries between performance sculpture architecture and documentation. Biography through photography sculpture installation and performance mary mattingly imagines a dire post apocalyptic future. What happens after 2018.

Ecology nomadic living and community participation are central to mary mattingly s collaborative projects. In mattingly s imagination humans are forced to live nomadically scavenging the wreckage of civilization and living by their wits. A year of public water 2020. It follows the flock house project 2012 which included a series of spherical living structures that migrated around new york and the waterpod 2009 a barge based ecosystem with five living.

Wednesday november 9 at 5 10 pm rackham amphitheater mary mattingly s work collapses boundaries between performance sculpture architecture and documentation. Through photography sculpture installation and performance mary mattingly imagines a dire post apocalyptic future. In mattingly s imagination humans are forced to live nomadically scavenging the wreckage of civilization and living by their wits. Sacred objects free lecture.

Her practice addresses nomadic themes that are based on the need to migrate due to current and future environmental. Triple island her next collaborative work will open july 20 on pier 42 in lower manhattan. Mary mattingly sacred objects. Along the lines of displacement 2018.

In her work we encounter nomads laboring under the weight of their possessions. Wednesday november 9 2016 at 5 10 pm. This question is not new indeed it harkens back to mary douglas work on purity and emic and etic understandings of sacredness douglas 1966.