This twelve piece set poses as a museum collection, artefacts rescued from some medieval battlefield, but ironically fashioned from prosaic materials bought from the local DIY tool‐shop.
This twelve piece set poses as a museum collection, artefacts rescued from some medieval battlefield, but ironically fashioned from prosaic materials bought from the local DIY tool‐shop.
These weapons are pieces of bespoke craftsmanship and to hold one engenders conflicting thoughts of desire, luxury and socio‐political warfare ‐ ideas that hint at under‐examined narratives around the purpose, need, and value of weapons in a contemporary setting.
Gathered together as components of a possible ‘armoury’ the works require engagement as both hypothetical designer (examining the evidence of the individual recognisable tools and hardware components) as well as the universalised subject of such weapons.
This symbolically materialises a tension between ‘permissible’ and ‘fetishised’ weaponry ‐ and offers a method for examining the dangerous narratives and conceptualisations of a necessary and abundant violence.
CategoryInstallation Art, Art Practice
Location ADR19, Monash University, Melbourne
StatusCompleted
Year2019
CollaboratorsTom Morgan
PhotographyChristine Francis
