ARTISTS

Linda Dement

"I am interested in the possibilities of embodiment and technology, particularly where the bodies concerned are those damaged, uncontrolled ones... I have always only had one project: to give form to the unbearable" –LD

On Track 2008-9

A software driven, mechanised, interactive installation comprised of an ordinary household mop moved by overly powerful, industrial motors, through buckets of strange substances, creating a slippery mess in intricately choreographed ways.

The work looks at a common human tendency; in attempting to solve one problem, we create another; trying to mend, we damage; eradicating one pest we create a new one. Processes begin, propagate and culminate, calling forth new cycles, often to clean up after the mess that the prior process has so sophisticatedly invested resources in.

This is a collaborative project. For more information visit http://www.dement.org/testing/index.htm

EURYDICE 2001-2005

lambda prints, 1x2.25 meters

Started as a collaboration with Kathy Acker, the author of Eurydice in the Underworld who later succumbed to cancer, Eurydice is a series of large scale prints that interpret scenes from the novel.

Using both figuration and abstraction, Dement interprets some of the dark scenarios of the book, leaving us with potent, powerful imagery.

"The images are so corporeal and pitilessly physical, that you don't so much look at them, as give them your fretful attention."
– George Alexander, Art Monthly

IN MY GASH 1996

CD-Rom

In My Gash takes you into the flesh of a depressed and dangerous girl, drug fucked and damaged.

Four wounds are entrances to nightmarish interiors where stories and horrors of bodily memories emerge under the cursor.

CYBERFLESH GIRLMOSNTER 1995

CD-Rom

With Cyberflesh Girlmonster, Dement has asserted the rightful identity of the woman as a user of the historically male-dominated domain of cyberspace. Images representing monstrous femininity are brought to life with throbbing, puzzling creatures.

"Dement showed that women's participation in technology produces bodies that point to the possibility of a brighter, erotic future for women. But she also hinted that these interventions are more important as expressions of unresolved 'human' emotions, which could be traced in tern to unjust, social relations in the present."
– Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguities

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