I am an artist and facilitator based in Rotterdam and London, working with sculpture, moving image and poetry. My approach combines fieldwork, participatory workshops, writing, conversations with scientists, collecting scrap metal and visits to archives.
In moving image installations, I feel out our disconnection from resource supply chains and the ensuing alienation, intimacies and violences caused by calculative infrastructures. Tending to material conditions, my sculptural works draw out the emotions and affects of scrap materials. My research is informed by feminist and decolonial responses to fieldwork, engaging with different sites and archives with reciprocity, collaboration and listening practices.
I have facilitated workshops in Rotterdam and London at Turf Projects including collaborative filmmaking in the field, river ecologies and poetics. From 2023–2024, I was Research Assistant in the Fine Art department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
E: rubyreding@gmail.com
IG: @rubyvenus