E: rubyreding@gmail.com
IG: @rubyvenus
I work with sculpture, poetry and moving image to feel out our disconnection from resource supply chains and sites of infrastructure. I draw on the elemental and rhythmic to attune differently to our experiences of agency, proximity and metabolism under late capitalism. My research instigates fieldwork to locations connected to this research such as water engineering sites, weather towers, mines and factories.
I collect scrap materials and visits to archives, asking how these methodologies can offer slanted knowledges and forms of material intimacy. I ask how artistic research can help focalize the gap between scenes of extraction, and the logistical spaces that carry those geologies into market commodities.
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.