Rice child (Stirrings)
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Title
Rice child (Stirrings)
Is Part Of
Fine Art
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History
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Environmental & Geographical Science
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Division of Human Nutrition
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Description
"An object-study of a grain of rice by the artist Elaine Gan similarly shows the intermingling temporalities of humans, nonhumans and machines through an assemblage of images, text and vectors maps. Gan explores four temporalities within this research – the time of technologies, matter, memory and a calendar year – and installs the work as a long horizontal strip that cannot be viewed in full from a fixed position but encourages the viewer to walk ‘through time, occupy multiple positions’ and in so doing ‘trace new connections’ (Gan 2021). Time-travelling over two thousand years, Rice child (Stirrings) (2011) begins in the Mekong Delta, where the farming of champa rice facilitated the formation of stable settlements. It then follows a selection of rice varieties, revealing how they became technologies that accumulate socio-political formations, and weaves through the 2007/8 food crisis" (Liebenberg 2021: 28).
Creator
Elaine Gan
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Date Created
2014
Source
https://elainegan.com/
Resonances
object-study
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assemblage
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blackboard
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positions
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temporalities
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calender
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technologies
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weaving
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Mekong Delta
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research
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connection
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time-travel
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machine
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medicine chest
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Type
Installation
Artwork
