Feeling at the Edge of Something, explores the elusive and mysterious spaces of consciousness, places that are experienced and felt, but cannot always be explained through objective, scientific rationalization.  Specifically, the work gestures toward, and tries to reconfigure, those ‘other places’ that the subject-as-energy might travel to when the brain is not functioning as it normally would - when we are asleep, in a coma, or as our energy makes the transition from life to somewhere and something else.  In dealing with these issues the work explores the way that the brain effects how we perceive, understand and create, mentally, perceptually and cognitively, the environments that surround us, and how these impressions start to change when our brains don’t function as they normally would.

Are there aspects of this place that we go to when we are in state of abnormal brain function that are ‘inspirited,’ or that gesture toward a higher level of consciousness that is free from the rational, linear, methodological conversations imposed on to our subjectivities by the ‘noisy’ pace of the brain in full function?  This place, and the spatial and intellectual changes that result when the brain is functioning differently to the way that it normally would, is what Feeling at the Edge of Something gestures toward.  In doing so the work explores the questions:  would the world exist in the same way if humans didn’t have the types of brains they do, and what would things feel like if our brains functioned differently, or if something that resembles our consciousness were able to interact world in a different body, in a new form, in a different way?  

Feeling at the Edge of Something was made in conjunction with Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s Hill End Artist in Residence Program  Participation in this program was funded by the Parks and Wildlife Division, Hill End.